[DunKhanate]

Is is possible to have custom libraries within Kodi - as in a new category alongside TV Shows, Movies, Music Videos etc.

I ask as I've started to put my stand-up into Kodi and through no fault of the software it's a bit of a mess - sometimes shows turn up as TV series (which is most convenient), sometimes as movies (which seems least incorrect), sometimes not at all (which is just a pain). Obviously not much I can do about the last one but is it possible to "mark" a movie or TV series as stand-up and give it is own category manually?

It strikes me as the kind of thing that could be done within Kodi but I can't figure out how and my Google-fu isn't getting me any answers!

Apologies if this is in the wrong board, wasn't quite sure where this should go and this seemed the least wrong place to ask.

[Karellen]

Is is possible to have custom libraries within Kodi

Yes it is. See... Custom home items (wiki)

But the little catch in your post is the issue of whether it is a tv show or a movie. Kodi, or any media centre, cannot control that. That is dictated by the scraper sites.
You can, after scraping, modify whether it shows up in movies or tv shows by editing nfo files, so you do have control after scraping. See... Convert_movie_to_episode (wiki)

[DunKhanate]

Is is possible to have custom libraries within Kodi

Yes it is. See... Custom home items (wiki)

But the little catch in your post is the issue of whether it is a tv show or a movie. Kodi, or any media centre, cannot control that. That is dictated by the scraper sites.
You can, after scraping, modify whether it shows up in movies or tv shows by editing nfo files, so you do have control after scraping. See... Convert_movie_to_episode (wiki)

Cool, thanks very much.

It looks like quite a big task, bit of a mini-project. Perhaps this will have to be a bit more medium term than expected (and I'll need to check skin compatibility etc) but it's good to know this is do-able and I hope to find time to do it. Again, really appreciated, thanks.

[zerocool_ie]

Is is possible to have custom libraries within Kodi

Yes it is. See... Custom home items (wiki)

But the little catch in your post is the issue of whether it is a tv show or a movie. Kodi, or any media centre, cannot control that. That is dictated by the scraper sites.
You can, after scraping, modify whether it shows up in movies or tv shows by editing nfo files, so you do have control after scraping. See... Convert_movie_to_episode (wiki)

Cool, thanks very much.

It looks like quite a big task, bit of a mini-project. Perhaps this will have to be a bit more medium term than expected (and I'll need to check skin compatibility etc) but it's good to know this is do-able and I hope to find time to do it. Again, really appreciated, thanks.

99% of my stand-up specials are movies (scraped with TheMovieDB).
I add a tag to each one, then build the custom library node from that.

xml:


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>

<node order="39" type="filter">

 <label>Stand-up Comedy</label>

 <content>movies</content>

 <icon>DefaultGenre.png</icon>

 <match>all</match>

 <rule field="tag" operator="contains"><value>stand-up</value></rule>

 <order direction="descending">year</order>

</node>

[jchaven]

Is is possible to have custom libraries within Kodi - as in a new category alongside TV Shows, Movies, Music Videos etc.

I ask as I've started to put my stand-up into Kodi and through no fault of the software it's a bit of a mess - sometimes shows turn up as TV series (which is most convenient), sometimes as movies (which seems least incorrect), sometimes not at all (which is just a pain). Obviously not much I can do about the last one but is it possible to "mark" a movie or TV series as stand-up and give it is own category manually?

It strikes me as the kind of thing that could be done within Kodi but I can't figure out how and my Google-fu isn't getting me any answers!

Apologies if this is in the wrong board, wasn't quite sure where this should go and this seemed the least wrong place to ask.

I keep everything I don't want in the library in a separate share named "Other" and then add the sub-folder (e.g. /Other/Stand-Up) to Favorites. If I want to watch stand-up, whether it be a movie or TV show series, I go to favorites and select "Stand-up" or go to favorites and select "Other" and then "Stand-up".

This works for other types of content - "Science and Nature", "Cooking", "Home and Garden", Home Videos", etc.