Grouping of movies, series, extra material etc.

[Omertron]

Original issue 245 created by Omertron on 2008-10-25T11:49:22.000Z:

I thought this had already been raised as an issue, but I was unable to find it - only on the forum.

I would like to see the ability to group movies etc. under one entry in the index. and then have a subpage, where each movie/episode etc. poster would be - without having to use cd1 and cd2 or S##E##...

This would let us have for example James Bond, Back to the Future, Lethal Weapon, sport events etc. not taking up too much space and make the index easier to navigate.

A possible solution could be to include "group" in the filename.

Examples:

Dr.No.1962[group.James.Bond].mkv

Casino.Royale.2006[group.James.Bond].mkv

Back.to.the.Future.part1[group.Back.to.the.Future].mkv

Back.to.the.Future.part2[group.Back.to.the.Future].mkv

Beijing.Opening.Ceremony.2008[group.Sport.Events].avi

NFL.TeamX.vs.TeamY.HDTV[group.Sport.Events].mkv

Another possible solution could be to use the NFO: -------------- NFO file -------------- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055928/ http://jamesbond007.net/No/no7.jpg group:James Bond ---------- End of file file ----------

A solution this would make me REALLY love YAMJ.

• Lars

[Omertron]

Comment #1 originally posted by Omertron on 2008-10-25T18:46:59.000Z:

This enhanecment is similar to issue 167.

[Omertron]

Comment #2 originally posted by Omertron on 2008-10-25T19:35:12.000Z:

Perhaps, but I think something like issue 113 is better with the poster listing instead of simple file listing. My proposed solution could also be used to sort out issue 113

[Omertron]

Comment #3 originally posted by Omertron on 2008-10-26T04:00:36.000Z:

So how do you see this actually appearing in the interface? Would these custom groups then show up as if they were genres? And if so, I'm assuming you'd only want them to appear within those custom groups and not anywhere else...like in the Alpha listings?

[Omertron]

Comment #4 originally posted by Omertron on 2008-10-26T08:18:12.000Z:

This picture intrigued me, when I saw it. http://img129.imageshack.us/img129/3092/11112222ck4.jpg

This would be the perfect result of a group subpage, but except instead of Season X, it should be "Back to the future", "Back to the Future part II" and "Back to the future part III" - all the movies which has [group.Back.to.the.Future.] in the filename or in NFO - which would take you to the individual details page of each movie/season.

Regarding where each movie would appear... I'm really not sure, what Alpha listings are :( Sorry However IMO, I'd prefer that they listed in the group everywhere except under "New". This would mean that even though a new TV episode is added and filed under a group, you could easily find it under new, whilst not taking precious navigation space in the index :)

This would be a perfect solution for me - and I have given it a lot of thought. However that is just my opinion...

Anyone else have better ideas or suggestions for improvements?

• Lars

[Omertron]

Comment #5 originally posted by Omertron on 2008-10-26T08:20:24.000Z:

This picture intrigued me, when I saw it. http://img129.imageshack.us/img129/3092/11112222ck4.jpg

This would be the perfect result of a group subpage, but except instead of Season X, it should be "Back to the future", "Back to the Future part II" and "Back to the future part III" - all the movies which has [group.Back.to.the.Future.] in the filename or in NFO - which would take you to the individual details page of each movie/tv-show.

Regarding where each movie would appear... I'm really not sure, what Alpha listings are :( Sorry However IMO, I'd prefer that they listed in the group everywhere except under "New". This would mean that even though a new TV episode is added and filed under a group, you could easily find it under new, whilst not taking precious navigation space in the index :)

This would be a perfect solution for me - and I have given it a lot of thought. However that is just my opinion...

Anyone else have better ideas or suggestions for improvements?

• Lars

[Omertron]

Comment #6 originally posted by Omertron on 2008-10-27T17:15:23.000Z:

The biggest problem is that it's all up to the user to have to manually sort this all out.

I was also going to ask how "can I have a movie grouped by James Bond and grouped by Sean Connery?" It won't work on the filename but could work in the NFO file as group:James Bond[,;|]Sean Connery -- where [,;|] are 3 valid separators -- because Sean Connery becomes a grouping of movies by Actor, like Clint Eastwood.

[Omertron]

Comment #7 originally posted by Omertron on 2008-12-30T05:40:44.000Z:

That would be a good idea :D

[Omertron]

Comment #8 originally posted by Omertron on 2009-02-08T01:29:21.000Z:

Comment # 6 proposes the best overall solution. With grouping by nfo keywords I could also group DVD extras under one heading.

Currently, I am unable to use YAMJ because a lot of the films I have archived have 6+ extras per avi file. Makes a lot of garbage in the YAMJ html file.

[Omertron]

Comment #9 originally posted by Omertron on 2009-02-09T15:59:47.000Z:

People usually just use multi-part naming to handle the extras http://code.google.com/p/moviejukebox/wiki/MultiPartVIdeos

[Omertron]

Comment #10 originally posted by Omertron on 2009-02-09T21:31:27.000Z:

That is not an option for me because I need to retain the folder structure and filenames. While the naming convention for series makes sense, one should not have to rename files in order to group them in YAMJ. Even just the ability to put a dummy .txt or .nfo file in the folder with a flag that says this is part of a series would work. (Or, even a skip flag for non-essential video files)

[Omertron]

Comment #11 originally posted by Omertron on 2009-02-18T18:28:09.000Z:

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