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I think this is because it touches the main reason for a mediacenter application, being able to have a collection of movies with all the bells and whistles that you can imagine.

So this has probably been implemented well over 15 (20 maybe?) years ago and everyone with write access to the source added his or hers personal favorite to it.

This could very well be the oldest and most changed part of the code base present, so I can really imagine why the code is as it is now.

And as long as nothing really breaks for the end-users, you have my blessing (and trust) to make this into a more solid piece of code.