Suggestion Regarding Folders (1 Viewer)

[jsimmons]

Many times, the primary reason for having multiple "Movies" folders is because you have multiple drives, each containing a single movie folder at its root. For instance, I have two drives with a Movies folder (E:\Movies and F:\Movies).

MP currently doesn't appear to have a method for linking folders so that their contents can be listed all in the same time. I realize there is a 3rd-party tool that allows you to link folders, but as is the case with most 3rd-party tools, the MP team cannot realistically be expected to support them. I think this suggestion will solve the problem.

Have a radiobutton group with the following items:

0) Do not link folders - this makes MP act the way it does now

0) Link folders with identical paths/names - this option would scan all drives for paths that are identical. For example, if drive D and drive E both contained the folder "\Movies", the contents of both drives' "\Movies" folder would be displayed as if they were all in the same folder. If both drives had the path "\Movies\Private", once again, the contents of both drives' "\Movies\Private" folder would be displayed as if they were all in the same folder.

0) Link selected folders - This option would allow the user to select the items in the existing folders ListView that would be linked together.

Regarding Pin-protected folders, all folders in a given link group would have to either be pin-protected, or not (no mix/matching permitted).

 

[flokel]

Right now MediaPortal supports "linking" folders by using the database view.

Apart from that (circumstantial solution ) MP2 will show improved behaviour on this part.

 

[larzman]

I have two 1TB drives, filled with movies. How do I get the "database view" to have MP scan both drives for movies? I have folders on each drive that contains movies, one drive has the movies in yearly folders (e.g. 2009, 2008, 2007...) and the other drive has two folders (hi-def .mkv, std-def .iso/img). I want to be able to watch movies from either drive, can this be done thru MP?

 

[jsimmons]

0) Open Config utility
1) Expand "Video" tree item
2) Click the "Video Folders" tree item
3) Ensure that all of your Movie folders are shown in the list.
4) Click "Video Database" option
5) Select "Scan" tab
6) Check all of the boxes for the movie folders you want to scan.

You should be good to go at that point.

 

[larzman]

nice explanation

thanks for the explanation. You have helped me immensely and now I can move on to other config issues. I had to get this particular point cleared up first though, as I though about dumping MP if I couldn't get it to scan multiple drives.