Collection.xml CollectioItem contems by tmdb or IMDB IDs instead of absolute path

[Deathsquirrel 741]

Just did a big reorg on my drives yesterday to simplify my backup routines.  At the end of it every collection had to be rebuilt because all the movie paths changed and the <CollectionItem> value is the path to the movie file.  If that were a TMDBID instead I wouldn't have had to rebuild anything at all.

[Luke 37116]

It's a little more complex than that because we allow you to add anything to a collection, whether it has an imdb id or not.

 

The other thing is, if you add by id, and then for some reason your metadata changes, you might not necessarily be expecting it to be removed from the collection, but that's what could happen

[Deathsquirrel 741]

It's a little more complex than that because we allow you to add anything to a collection, whether it has an imdb id or not.

 

The other thing is, if you add by id, and then for some reason your metadata changes, you might not necessarily be expecting it to be removed from the collection, but that's what could happen

 

Yeah, I considered all that but somewhere along the lines while rebuilding160+ collections across 1700 movies I stopped caring so much

 

it's not a thing that happens every day though so I can live with the current approach.

[Luke 37116]

Thanks for the feedback.