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337Manni

Hi all.

 

I’ve moved Movies & TV Shows over to Media Browser and we are loving the experiance. I’m currently testing a couple of Albums / Artists as well.

I’d like to move the rest of my media over but I’m stuck as to how to organise them. I’ve got Stand-up Comedy, Cooking TV Shows, Documentaries, Exercise Videos, so I can’t just put them under the Home Videos folder type.

 

Basically how would I / how do you organise Stand-up Comedy? My layout on my hard drive is

 

\Videos\Stand-up Comedy\Billy Connolly\(2005) - Billy Connolly - Live In New York\(2005) - Billy Connolly - Live In New York.avi

 

I’ve no problem renaming them the same as IMDB or whichever.

Also What would the folder type be? I don’t want them mixed in with my Movies or TV Shows...

 

Is there any way to add a “Custom Folder Type” and then call it Stand-up Comedy and them select the scrapers or manually get images / data for them?

 

Are there plans to add more Folder Types in the future?

 

Regards,

Lee

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Glad to hear it!

 

The safe bet to start with is home videos. Are these supposed to have internet metadata? if so then you could also try mixed movies & tv, although then you'll need to make sure the directories conform to movie or tv series guidelines. so i'd start with home videos for the moment.

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337Manni

Thanks for your reply Luke.

 

At the moment my Stand-up Comedy doesn’t have any metadata but they will have eventually, even if I have to manually edit them. My Documentaries & Exercise Videos have.

 

Is there any plan to seperating these in the future, or give us a custom option?

 

If I used the Home Videos folder type, would they be in seperate sections going off my folders or all lumped together?

I don’t like the idea of them all being lumped together under Home Videos it seems abit messy, but I understand the pace the server is evolving and like the way it’s heading, so I’ll live with it untill they can be seperated if it's a future feature.

 

I take it using the Mixed Movies & TV folder type would mean they are mixed with the rest of my Movies / TV shows?

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psykix

The folder type just determines whether metadata is fetched or not, and if so what type of metadata to fetch.

 

Best way for your stand up comedy is create a new media folder in the library, called Stand-up Comedy and set the folder type to movies - looking on themoviedb.org it seems to list stand up comedy and in particular the Billy Connolly one that you refer to.

 

Just point the folder path to \\Videos\Stand-up Comedy

 

If it doesn't pan out, you can always remove it and try an alternative :-)

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Happy2Play

You have an option in you user preference whether you new media folders get grouped or not.  So if Stand-up Comedy used movie for folder type and you didn't check group them in your user preference they would not be grouped with all your movies.

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FrostByte

Click on your user profile icon in the upper right

Choose My Preferences

Under Display... My Views uncheck the box next to Stand-up Comedy

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337Manni

Thanks everyone. Forgot to check back about this.... Just searching the forum again for this and found my answer!

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