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Message: <blockquote data-quote="milhouse" data-source="post: 211666" data-attributes="member: 26653">puppetj-The database view is where MP has honest-to-goodness information on your movies.  Instead of the default Shares view, which just lists directory contents, you can just add all your movies directories to the MP configuration, under Movie Folders, then do a scan from the Movie Database section.  It'll throw each filename against imdb to get year, description, genre, actors, director, etc.Once you've done the scan, then in MP you can change the view from Shares to Title, Actor, Year, Genre, etc.  From what you've described in your various, uh, "posts", I think this is exactly what you are really looking for.  For example, my movies are scattered on several file servers in the basement, but in the Title view it's completely irrelevent where they are actually at.If you want to get really picky (like I do - I manually add every DVD rip so I control the genres) you can all go to the movie database (also in config) and manually edit information on each movie.  (Especially in your case, because the genres you get from imdb are less than ideal, to be kind.)    Notice genres are a one-to-many relationship so you can put the same movie in multiple genres (action, comedy, and TV show, for example).  Way better than using the folder structure you've described.If you want get even fancier, you can edit the views to having them grouped and sorted however you like, from any database field.If your database information is correct, there's no reason to ever go to the Shares view.For more detail, you DO need to read the wiki you were referred to in one of your numerous other threads.  <a href="http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/MediaPortalSetup_Movies" target="_blank">http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/MediaPortalSetup_Movies</a>I hope this helps.  From your postings, you've been using MP since March and have been asking for the same thing the whole time.  I think that just using MP functions as they are designed will be much more effective than fancy solutions like junction points.  And as some of the flames from the other threads have pointed out - there's a lot of really helpful people on the forums.  You just need to clearly explain the problem, give as much detail on your setup as possible, and ask NICELY.  (Notice this post was not written in all caps, and you got useful replies?)  Doing a few forum searches first to make sure the question hasn't already been answered elsewhere is also a plus.Milhouse</blockquote>

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