View Full Version : Sort by Date Added
SandmanCL
2008-01-10, 08:09
Is 'dateadded' a field in the video database as well as audio ? If so, would it be possible to get a 'Date Added' Sort-by option ? That would be very useful, in my opinion.
jmarshall
2008-01-10, 09:05
Recently Added Media, and/or use a smartplaylist to grab them. Not sure if there's a dateadded or not - check the smartplaylist editor.
SandmanCL
2008-01-28, 19:53
I just exported my video database and there's no dateadded field there, so I guess this isn't possible. The smartlist editor had no such field either. The closest one was 'year'.
Nuka1195
2008-01-28, 22:13
you could sort by idMovie, the more recent the higher the number
jmarshall
2008-01-29, 00:40
Only if a clean hasn't been performed - sqlite can add back in to old slots.
SandmanCL
2008-01-29, 00:45
Cool, I'll look into sorting my idMovie. Assuming it wouldn't be too hard to add that myself as long as I find out which skin xml file to modify. Good thing I didn't do the database clean this morning ! :grin:
I'm reviving this old thread in hope to get some more discussion going around this topic.
for what I know the column dateadded is still not added to the database and I created a ticket regarding this about 7 weeks ago: http://xbmc.org/trac/ticket/5542
But perhaps instead of adding the dateadded info, we should add the filecreationdate instead. This would serve the same purpose but would not be wiped if the database was lost.
From and end user POV this may help clarify the logic with "recently added tv/movies".
Making some assumptions these views show what is new within the library. However this can be effected by changed in regex matching, adding a new source etc. The macro effect of this is that the views can be flooded with new content for the library which is actually old for the users collection.
For instance one of my show matches yesterday filled my new view with a show that has been in my collection since 2006. At the same time the new shows which are actually new to my collection were swamped out of the view completely completely negating the usefulness of the feature.
So essentially were looking at a mechanism that displays actually new to the users collection rather than new to the XBMC library.