XLOBBY and multiple avi files....what a pain

[havix]

First off let me say i think this is the most interesting HTPC frontend I've come across but has one notable issue at least for me. Is there any way around putting all my files into seperate folders? Seems ridiculous to have to do for seasons of farscape or star trek...or even for movies for that matter. I understand something like this helps with coverart and for movie descriptions but couldn't that also work by naming the coverart the same as the avi except in jpg format or something similar? Anyways this seems to be the last hurdle for me to use this software...and no help seems to be on the forum for fixing it. Thanks for any help you can give me.

[stevenhanna6]

funny you should bring this up...its the next thing on my list. I was going to test with my svcds and stuff...but if you can email your directory structure or something to show me what your working with I will make it work.

mailto:steve@xlobby.com

and I agree with you putting everything into seperate folders is not an option.

[havix]

Hey thanks Steve for the quick reply. I shot you off an email lastnight about folder structure, hopefully it was received. This is great news.

[Cosworth]

Actually you can solve this in the present version.

Let's say you have everything under c:\videos e.g.

c:\videos\Farscape season 1\S01E01.avi
c:\videos\Farscape season 1\S01E02.avi
...
c:\videos\Farscape season 2\S02E01.avi
....
c:\videos\somemovie.avi

Hit F2-> databases ->import and set "Import to DB" to movies.

Set Import type to "Custom" and folder to "Container".
Add c:\videos to your path.

Enter these metamasks:
\\(?<genre>.*)\\(?<sorttitle>(?<name>.*))
\\(?<sorttitle>(?<name>.*))

The first line picks up your subdirs and uses the directory name for genre
The second line picks up your root folder movies.

Press import and finally edit DB. Select one of the movies and place a check mark in sorttitle and genre (this enables filtering using those).

You're done. Now just refresh once in a while

As for cover images just name them exactly as the movie/video and place it in the same dir. put a blank/default jpg with _.jpg as the name for giving movies without cover a default image.

/Cosworth

[r45t4m4n]

This is what I would like to do also. When I attempt to add the path I always get an error that does no allow it to be added, even after restart. Guess Ill have to wait for the next release.

[stevenhanna6]

r45t4m4n, did you make or select a db first? if you dont do that it wont let you add a path since you would be adding it to nothing.

[r45t4m4n]

yes, I did select a database, I tried again last night and I still get the error (wierd looking error window: asks if I would like to continue, exit or see details)