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Cory1980 · 2024-11-11, 13:21

I really love the new movie Extras feature being implemented into Kodi natively now! I wouldn't doubt if there are already improvements being planned and/or currently being worked on right now... but just thought I would make a few suggestions in case these aren't being considered yet.

- Add movies with Extras as a smart playlist entree. This way you can build a list of only the movies in your library that has extras.
- Allow Extras titles to show special characters. Right now, it only seems like you can view letters and numbers in the titles... the Extras Manager window ignores all symbols I've tried. Ex: "[Documentary] Never Sleep Again - The Elm Street Legacy" will show as "Documentary Never Sleep Again The Elm Street Legacy". So it's not as clean and easy to read hierarchy/organization.
- The "Choose art" for an Extras video seems broken, or finnicky. Every time I've tried adding artwork to an Extra video to replace the random frame grab, Kodi force-closes.
- Add a "Play All" option. As of right now, you can only manually play 1 extra in the list at a time.
- Allow nfo files for metadata. This one is fairly low on my want list, but it would be a nice option to have since many extras for movies are entire documentary movies that have their own plot/details in TMDB.

Thanks!

**CrystalP** · 2024-11-14, 06:25

Suggestions are welcome.
2/ was done in v22, maybe will be accepted as a backport to v21
3/ sounds like a bug report. I tried in v21 and v22 and don't see an issue so more details are needed.

1/ 4/ 5/ are gaps that result from the design of versions and extras, which doesn't fit very well in Kodi.
We'll see if a dev is motivated enough for a rewrite, necessary to implement those points in a reasonable manner.

Cory1980 · 2024-11-14, 10:11

(2024-11-14, 06:25)CrystalP Wrote: Suggestions are welcome.
2/ was done in v22, maybe will be accepted as a backport to v21
3/ sounds like a bug report. I tried in v21 and v22 and don't see an issue so more details are needed.

1/ 4/ 5/ are gaps that result from the design of versions and extras, which doesn't fit very well in Kodi.
We'll see if a dev is motivated enough for a rewrite, necessary to implement those points in a reasonable manner.

2/ Great to hear for this one!
3/ Yeah, this issue happens on all of my Kodi builds, I'm on the NVIDIA Shield TV, and I sent in a debug report a few months back for one of my devices... and haven't found a solution yet.

1/ 4/ 5/ I'll keep my fingers crossed for these. My biggest hope out of these is for movies with extras to have the ability to be used in smart playlists... even if it means it will include versions.

Thank you for the reply!

**CrystalP** · 2024-11-14, 15:17

Actually the smart playlist bit may be relatively easy but I'm not familiar with that area of the code.

That debug log (that I wasn't able to locate) likely expired by now. A new one can't hurt, but more info will likely be needed.
Steps followed from scan of the movie into the library up to the crash, so that it can be reproduced. The structure of the video folders may be relevant too, your versions/extras settings.

**CrystalP** · 2024-11-15, 07:21

The smart playlist part was indeed easy thanks to the hint of PatK in a related thread. The new filters for versions and extras will be in v22 soon.

Vantskruv · 2024-11-17, 17:09

I have not found a good way yet, but if not possible, maybe add an Extras function for a Movie sets?
I.e. there is a bonus disc for all the four Indiana Jones movies. The bonus/extra content are not for the individual movies, but for all the movies in general.

I am not sure what is the best way, maybe when user is creating a folder called "Indiana Jones movie_set_extras".
If Kodi finds movie_set_extras as the last word in the folder name, Kodi knows this is a folder with extras for a movie set. Kodi then uses its movie-set algorithm to detect which movie-set it is with the first words in the folder-name.

**PatK** · 2024-11-17, 20:45

This is one of those tough decisions of 'what-to-do', and with the new feature of 'Versions' entering the picture modifying the way extras are handled we have more of a conundrum of issues, almost half baked one might say. Until now, I've treated the 'extras' via the add-on and stuff anything pertaining in the first folder of a set, if I have an extensive 'extras' disk, it usually gets it's own title and included with the set (Sometimes I'll edit manually the meta-data to differentiate). With the advent of new skins that recognize the extras, the only issue I have are that I've stuck various 'versions' in that very extras folder under the same name and the versions manager wants to disallow this and the manager doesn't accept a rename or version at this point. The solution on my part; is to have properly renamed the files in extras, as to version etc.

My desire is to have 'extras' seen as a smart playlist rule and in that; some effort has been made!

Cory1980

CrystalP,
Awesome to hear, thanks for the update! The Extras filter for smart playlists and character symbols in the titles were really my main hopes to get, so I'll be looking forward to seeing those soon! I appreciate the feedback!