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ddfranco

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Post Wed Feb 09, 2011 9:33 am

Can Serviio list movies in multiple genres

I installed version 0.5 of Serviio a couple of days ago. I am very happy with it until now. But I cannot figure out one thing. Can Serviio list movies in multiple genres?

I have my movie collection organized in XBMC with metadata from IMDB. Most movies have more than one genre. In the exported .nfo files there are multiple genre tags. But through my media player I can only find each movie in one genre. E.g. star wars is only listed in the Action genre and not in the Science fiction genre.

Is it possible somehow? Am I missing something?

Regards,

David
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Post Wed Feb 09, 2011 9:37 am

Re: Can Serviio list movies in multiple genres

NO, currently it only stores it against the first found genre.
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ddfranco

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Post Wed Feb 09, 2011 10:08 am

Re: Can Serviio list movies in multiple genres

Do you have plans to add this functionality in the near future?
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Post Wed Feb 09, 2011 10:18 am

Re: Can Serviio list movies in multiple genres

Not really. Create a bitbucket ticket and will see where it could fit release-wise.
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gmann001

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Post Fri Jul 01, 2011 6:26 pm

Re: Can Serviio list movies in multiple genres

I too would like the multiple genre, especially since the NFO files are usually automatically created one way or another and I can not dictate which genre to display first just so that Serviio displays it where I want it to (not without manually going into every single NFO file I have and re-order the genre tags)

There are also other nodes in the NFO file I see that would be real cool for Serviio to recognize. For example, there is a <set> tag that will allow the owner to group movies (kind of like the Series for tv shows), also the MPAA tag/node would be awesome to have listed within Serviio.

Here is an NFO I have for Iron Man (with the set tag value of "Iron Man Collection")

  Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<movie>
  <title>Iron Man 1</title>
  <originaltitle>Iron Man 1</originaltitle>
  <sorttitle>Iron Man 1</sorttitle>
  <set>Iron Man [Collection]</set>
  <rating>7.5</rating>
  <year>2008</year>
  <top250>0</top250>
  <votes>0</votes>
  <outline>When wealthy industrialist Tony Stark is forced to build an armored suit after a life-threatening incident, he ultimately decides to use its technology to fight against evil.</outline>
  <plot>When wealthy industrialist Tony Stark is forced to build an armored suit after a life-threatening incident, he ultimately decides to use its technology to fight against evil.</plot>
  <tagline></tagline>
  <thumb>C:\Documents\wmp-library\images\Iron Man 1.jpg</thumb>
  <mpaa>PG-13</mpaa>
  <id>tt0371746</id>
  <filenameandpath>M:\Movies\I\Iron Man 1.avi</filenameandpath>
  <genre>Action</genre>
  <genre>Adventure</genre>
  <genre>Sci-Fi</genre>
  <genre>Rated PG-13</genre>
  <credits>
    <writer>Mark Fergus</writer>
    <writer>Hawk Ostby</writer>
  </credits>
  <studio>Marvel Enterprises</studio>
  <fileinfo>
    <streamdetails>
      <video>
        <width>720</width>
        <height>304</height>
      </video>
    </streamdetails>
  </fileinfo>
  <director>Jon Favreau</director>
  <actor>
    <name>Robert Downey Jr.</name>
  </actor>
  <actor>
    <name>Gwyneth Paltrow</name>
  </actor>
  <actor>
    <name>Terrence Howard</name>
  </actor>
</movie>

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gmann001

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Post Wed Dec 14, 2011 12:14 pm

Re: Can Serviio list movies in multiple genres

Has anymore thought been put into this? Can we expect multiple genres for video in the near future?
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zip

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Post Wed Dec 14, 2011 3:36 pm

Re: Can Serviio list movies in multiple genres

it's in the backlog but has not been prioritized yet
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Post Wed Dec 14, 2011 7:42 pm

Re: Can Serviio list movies in multiple genres

surely if your using NFO file you can just edit the NFO file and put whatever genre you want first ;)
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gmann001

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Post Thu Dec 15, 2011 12:36 pm

Re: Can Serviio list movies in multiple genres

Cerberus wrote:surely if your using NFO file you can just edit the NFO file and put whatever genre you want first ;)

You are right, I can do that. And since I do use NFO files, I have.

However, what I may consider the "main" genre and place at the top of the list for a particular film, may not be what my wife thinks should be what that movie be listed under. And so she has to search to try and find where I placed it. Same goes with my kids... they may look for the same thing in a completely different genre.

If you look at almost any movie information (whether it be IMDB, Netflix, Rotten Tomatoes, Yahoo, or whatever you want to use) you will see that movies are not classified as just a single genre.

Here are some links for reference...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076759/
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/star_wars/
http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Star-Wars- ... e/60010932
http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1800121659/info
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Post Thu Dec 15, 2011 7:45 pm

Re: Can Serviio list movies in multiple genres

yer i see were your coming from keeping the wife happy is never easy, well as zip said it has been requested to be added and is on his radar but is a low prority but hopefully it will be added soon. :)
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gmann001

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Post Sat Dec 17, 2011 2:24 pm

Re: Can Serviio list movies in multiple genres

Cerberus wrote:yer i see were your coming from keeping the wife happy is never easy


Exactly!
Thanks for understanding... ;)
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likefrank

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Post Wed Dec 05, 2012 3:34 pm

Re: Can Serviio list movies in multiple genres

Hello, there are some news? I'm need also the support of reading multiple genres in xbmc.nfo files.

Maybe thats are an definition for "serviio"?
http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Im ... g_XML_data
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bandid

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Post Thu Oct 30, 2014 8:59 pm

Re: Can Serviio list movies in multiple genres

So it's been 2 years,

do we now have a multi genre solution?

Thanks and Good Day

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