[Lessram]

I have 100s of movies, some are made between 1990 and 2021, every year a new released, with the same title.
How can I tag those to get them sorted not only on title "movie A (1992)", movie A (1993)", "screener B (1991), Screener B (1994) but also specifically on date/year.
i am looking for a way to sort then on title, so the resultsts would be;
Movie A (1992)
Movie A (1993)
Screener B (1991)
Screener B (1994)

but also sort on date;
Screener B (1991)
Movie A (1992)
Movie A (1993)
Screener B (994)

Something like using ID3 tags with music.
There are probably tons of those tagging programs? But which one works with Kodi, can sort on title, but also on date?
(Without using scrapers, because these movies are not in online databases, so scrapers won't find them)

THNX
Lessram

[jbinkley60]

I have 100s of movies, some are made between 1990 and 2021, every year a new released, with the same title.
How can I tag those to get them sorted not only on title "movie A (1992)", movie A (1993)", "screener B (1991), Screener B (1994) but also specifically on date/year.
i am looking for a way to sort then on title, so the resultsts would be;
Movie A (1992)
Movie A (1993)
Screener B (1991)
Screener B (1994)

but also sort on date;
Screener B (1991)
Movie A (1992)
Movie A (1993)
Screener B (994)

Something like using ID3 tags with music.
There are probably tons of those tagging programs? But which one works with Kodi, can sort on title, but also on date?
(Without using scrapers, because these movies are not in online databases, so scrapers won't find them)

THNX
Lessram

You might want to look at smart playlists in Kodi, which won't require tagging to do various sort methods.  It might meet your needs.


Jeff

[TimeZone]

You might want to look at smart playlists in Kodi, which won't require tagging to do various sort methods.  It might meet your needs.

Using smart playlist is indeed the best option for them if they want multiple sorting style. But they will have to add the movies to the library first to be able to use smart playlist, which then takes them back scraping.
 

Something like using ID3 tags with music.

Yes, you need something like this, but provide all the info you need since the info is not available online. The information aka tags, can be written on an nfo file (read), which Kodi can read just like the music tags.

There are probably tons of those tagging programs? But which one works with Kodi, can sort on title, but also on date?

I recommend tinymediamanager for tagging: Kodi forum thread, website
For sorting, you will use smart playlist as suggested by jbinkley60 or just the library view.

Here are summarized steps.

1. Tag your movies. Use the tinymedia manager app to manually add the information you need e.g Movie title, actors, year, genre, artwork (poster) etc. Add as much info as you need, the more info you add, the more useful the libary feature will be. Save the data in .nfo file
   
2. Add the movie to your library (read). Scan the movies to the library, Kodi will skip online scrapers and use the .nfo files to load the movies
   
3. Create smart playlist. You can create multiple playlist with different sorting styles or, you can sort the movies in the main movie library view (default is sort by title) as you like with no need for a playlist.
   

[Lessram]

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I recommend tinymediamanager for tagging: Kodi forum thread, website

Thank you.
Exactly all the info I was hoping for!