MediaBrowser

DemonSeed said:

Hey Xzener, whats up man! Here is how I have mine set up.


*** I am using animated pix in this post that you can not see move with Internet Explorer. If you are using Firefox, Safari, or Opera your good, just skip over this next part.
If your using any other web browser please just for this, download this Portable Web Browser and run the opera.exe and it will open, Then browse back to this page, and you wont miss a thing.

This is going to be based on how I have my system set up, please don't think this is the only way of doing thing because that's just incorrect. This is solely going to be based on my system.

I am going to give pointers on how to set up a box set collection using shortcuts from your main movie collection.

First thing, I do not separate my movies in my library. They are all grouped together so I can better keep a true count of things,
and when browsing all of my tidals, its really all of my tidals .
Here is what I mean.

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Note the folder.dna file I have inside my folder. The reason I have that there is, Stark did not make the icon you see. It is a custom made icon and I don't want stark to change it or alter it in any way, so by putting the folder.dna inside the folder Stark will skip it from be processed.

Now on to the part Media Browser looks at to show me my Box Sets.
This is a folder with nothing inside but what you see here.


And this is my end game.



It will be easy to do it this way, but there is a down side tho.
If you use the sort by Genre or other filters, MB is going to show two of all of the movie that have been linked with shortcuts.

I don't use and filters, so I don't have any problems with it doing that.

Hope this helps ya out.
Later -DS

Ok, I have my dunce hat on tonight. I can't figure out your tutorial to save my life. No offence. What does your configuration wizard look like??

Does the folder.dna hold any part in this??

And are those just shortcuts of the actual movie folders??

I must be tired.

QUOTE xzener What does your configuration wizard look like??


Does the folder.dna hold any part in this??
Its only to stop Stark Covers from changing the Icon you set. If its a custom icon and you dont want it getting changed on accident add the folder.dna and Stark Covers will not proses it..

And are those just shortcuts of the actual movie folders??
YEA They Are. That's all it takes, is creating short cuts to the movies in your collection and placing them all in a containing folder. Then show MB the shortcuts folder and that's it.

I set mine up just like yours.... MB see's the folder, and will set up an icon, if the folder is empty. As soon as I add a folder, and add shortcut folders, MB shows no icon, no movies, no backdrops. And when I click on "Box Sets" in MB it starts one of the movies. Here is my setup...

MB Configuration Tool


My Box Sets/The Bourne Trilogy/shortcuts setup


This is the outcome, absolutely nothing...


What am I doing wrong here?? All that I can see that is different is all those backdrops you have.

Do you have auto enter single item folder enabled? I dont know what else it could be???

It works fine on mine. You have used the shortcuts to check the path right.

Yes, I have that checked. And to think they're going to make us pay for this. Is there a tutorial in the wiki?? I've done everything I know how. The folder (with icon) only works when the folder is empty!?!?