Help! Want to disable library view for one type

[ricostuart]

Firstly - FANTASTIC WORK!! This is by far the best skin for my xbox version!

Now I have a heap of vids and TV shows on my home server which my xbox streams flawlessly (except hd content unfortunatly). Now I name the files in a particular way so they group together - eg. James Bond - 1 - Dr No. This way I find it much easier to move around the library. Unfortunatly XBMC library sorts from the downloaded information, not file name so they jumble up. I can set file mode for "videos", but i want it set for "movies" also but not "TV Shows".

Is there a way of doing this?

[ronie]

Originally Posted by ricostuart

Now I have a heap of vids and TV shows on my home server which my xbox streams flawlessly (except hd content unfortunatly). Now I name the files in a particular way so they group together - eg. James Bond - 1 - Dr No. This way I find it much easier to move around the library. Unfortunatly XBMC library sorts from the downloaded information, not file name so they jumble up.

you can use .nfo files and add a <sorttitle> tag to get those movies to sort in the correct order.
you can even group them together in a folder in the library by using the <set> tag if you want to.

Originally Posted by ricostuart

I can set file mode for "videos", but i want it set for "movies" also but not "TV Shows".

Is there a way of doing this?

best way would be to set up your library as explained above, but if you do want to use filemode for movies you'll have to edit Includes_Home.xml
change every occurrence of:

XBMC.ActivateWindow(MyVideoLibrary,movietitles,return)

to:

ActivateWindow(VideoFiles,Movies)

where 'Movies' is the name of your Movies folder in xbmc.

[mcborzu]

Hey Ronie, is there more info on that <sorttitle> tag. I searched the wiki and the forums and nothing came up


**Edit**

I just tried "sorttitle" without the <> and this thread explains it...http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php...ight=sorttitle

[ricostuart]

That works quite well, thanks! But is there a way of implimenting a "sort by File Name" option on the library? This would be the best option for me!

[ronie]

Originally Posted by ricostuart

That works quite well, thanks! But is there a way of implimenting a "sort by File Name" option on the library? This would be the best option for me!

i can't help you with that. you'd have to request it in the 'xbmc feature requests' forum.