Feature request... Shortlist (1 Viewer)

[chickeneye]

Hi,
Would be really useful (to me at least) if it was possible to add films into a shortlist. I usually end up going through my list of films and seeing several that id quite like to watch. So being able to add them to a list as I go through then pick one at the end would be great.

Also if the list was kept between sessions/reboots it would be nice too.

Any thoughts?

 

[RoChess]

Hi,
Would be really useful (to me at least) if it was possible to add films into a shortlist. I usually end up going through my list of films and seeing several that id quite like to watch. So being able to add them to a list as I go through then pick one at the end would be great.

Also if the list was kept between sessions/reboots it would be nice too.

Any thoughts?

I'm not sure if the Follw.it site allows you to 'tag' movies yet, but the Trakt plugin allows you to sync a "watchlist", which will be kept in the 'cloud', so it will survive sessions/reboots and can even be shared between multiple systems and created at different locations.

For example at work you hear about some new movie, so you can add it to your watchlist via website interface of trakt.tv and then when you are back on your MediaPortal system it will be in the list to remind you to watch (or buy/rent/obtain if it's not already part of your collection).

 

[fforde]

While that is a slick feature of Trakt, I think cloud sync of movie lists is a little different. What is asked for here I think is a matter of scanning and slowly narrowing down a selection of movies. Something to aid in the process of deciding "what do i want to watch?!"

Chickeneye, this is a feature I have wanted for a while and has been requested many times. It is definitely planned and is kind of on my mind as well. No promises but I will try to get this implemented sooner rather than later.

 

[floeti]

A combination of both would be best in my opinion, so you have a watchlist (or multiple) and this can be filled with items from either within moving pictures or the website (follow.it/trakt/whatever). The watchlist is then synced between moving pictures and the website.

 

[chickeneye]

Yeah for me it's definitely something to make selection easier, so a local list would suffice. I'm trying to get away from the spreadsheet list I have on my laptop!

Obviously being able to sync to a web service would be great for some people though, so integration with one would make a nicer solution.

Many thanks for having a look at this

 

[wonkyd]

What is asked for here I think is a matter of scanning and slowly narrowing down a selection of movies. Something to aid in the process of deciding "what do i want to watch?!"

Chickeneye, this is a feature I have wanted for a while and has been requested many times. It is definitely planned and is kind of on my mind as well. No promises but I will try to get this implemented sooner rather than later.

Was this ever implemented? It would certainly get WAF if it was!

 

[ltfearme]

You can use the Trakt plugin to create new lists or add to an existing list, you can do this from the MovingPictures GUI. Currently only Recommendations and Watchlists are synced to MovingPictures categories but if you want to view the list of movies from a different list you can jump to the Trakt GUI and view your lists. This is basically what the op wanted i.e. narrow down a selection of movies and persist across reboots. You can play movies from the Trakt GUI as well.

I will be implementing custom list sync to movingpics categories in the future to save the extra step of jumping to trakt to play a movie from a custom list.

 

[wonkyd]

Thanks ltfearme, what we wanted was a way of starring (or shortlisting) movies in moving pictures then being able to choose from the list at the end. Sometimes it's difficult to choose what you want to watch!

 

[RoChess]

Thanks ltfearme, what we wanted was a way of starring (or shortlisting) movies in moving pictures then being able to choose from the list at the end. Sometimes it's difficult to choose what you want to watch!

If you are not syncing your ratings up with follw.it/trakt.tv then you could do what I did and that is to abuse the rating system with one or more custom categories (or do not care what others think about the way you rate a movie as you can then share the system via multiple MediaPortal instances).

Pick a rating you would normally never use (or allow for multiple and more advanced lists that way) and when you 'rate' a movie that way, it will instantly appear in the custom categories that are setup to look for "Rating equals X". You can even combine it with other filters, such as if the movie has been watched before, was added in the last X days, etc.

Obviously it is a dirty workaround, but it does work and might give you some usage until it is implemented. The speed at which new features are currently added to Moving-Pictures is at a point where you might consider to just wait.