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<blockquote data-quote="fforde" data-source="post: 339896" data-attributes="member: 52082">The problem with this idea is that movies loaded in via this method would not be tied to a physical disk in any way. This is not a big deal for playback, the GUI could just prompt you to insert the appropriate disk when you hit play, no fuss. But as of the next release, you will be able to insert a DVD into the drive, it will be auto detected, and based on some web services, correct movie details will be automatically retrieved. A unique serial number on the disk is used to make sure we don't import the same disk multiple times. If your offline media was loaded via a CSV file or something like that, then that serial number would not be in the system, so the importer would add the disk as a new movie, even though you already preloaded it with your CSV file. See the problem?So basically I am not sure that there is a way to have both batch loading and auto detected disk based content. The two issues kind of fly in the face of each other. We could work around this with some additional prompting in the importer maybe, but this further complicates an already complicated system. The goal of the plug-in is ease of use, and in general I am very hesitant to add this sort of complication. So I guess I am saying if we are going to implement some sort of batch loading system like you guys are asking for, we would have to figure out a way to have it play nice with disk detection...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="fforde, post: 339896, member: 52082"] The problem with this idea is that movies loaded in via this method would not be tied to a physical disk in any way. This is not a big deal for playback, the GUI could just prompt you to insert the appropriate disk when you hit play, no fuss. But as of the next release, you will be able to insert a DVD into the drive, it will be auto detected, and based on some web services, correct movie details will be automatically retrieved. A unique serial number on the disk is used to make sure we don't import the same disk multiple times. If your offline media was loaded via a CSV file or something like that, then that serial number would not be in the system, so the importer would add the disk as a new movie, even though you already preloaded it with your CSV file. See the problem? So basically I am not sure that there is a way to have both batch loading and auto detected disk based content. The two issues kind of fly in the face of each other. We could work around this with some additional prompting in the importer maybe, but this further complicates an already complicated system. The goal of the plug-in is ease of use, and in general I am very hesitant to add this sort of complication. So I guess I am saying if we are going to implement some sort of batch loading system like you guys are asking for, we would have to figure out a way to have it play nice with disk detection... [/QUOTE]

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