[Timbu]

Hi,
so with a movie collection contantly growing I have the need for a better way to sort and arrange my movies.

I noticed the option to create tags and add movies to these tags. That would perfectly satisfy my needs if there wouldn't be a downside.

F.e.: I want to create a "best of" tag and only add some of my most favourite movies to it. This works as long as the added movie is not part of a movie set.

If this movie belongs to a set then ALL movies of this set will be added and signed to the newly created tag, which is undesirable.

I don't know if this is a bug or really intended (I can't think of a reason why)? Is there a way around this?

[Karellen]

@Timbu

I cannot replicate that issue with Tags and Movie Sets. The two functions are unrelated and Tags will only access the movies, not the Sets.

Maybe you can give us step by step details on what you did. Some screenshots with the steps will be great.

[Timbu]

Hi,

thank you for your reply. I did some more testing. It seems the issue occurs when there are at least 2 movies of a movie set added with the custom Tag. Not just one, my bad.

F.e.: I add the first two movies of the Star Wars Saga to the newly created Tag. Browsing the movie list of the created Tag shows not the first two movies but the movie set 'folder' of the Star Wars Saga.
Entering that folder shows ALL movies of the Star Wars Saga not just the first two that were tagged.

So I think in this case Kodi should either show only the first two movies in the file list or show the movie set folder but when entering that folder only show the first twotagged movies and not every movie in that folder.

[Timbu]

Have you been able to replicate that problem now?

[Karellen]

No.

I just cannot see how that can happen. Nor can I figure out a way to force that to happen without changes to the code.

Maybe you are referring to something else which you have mistakenly called Tags? Tags does not have access to Movie Sets. It has access to movies only.

Some screenshots might help as part of the step by step guide on what you are doing.

[Timbu]

Okay, this is what I did:

1) Select 'Tags' from the Kodi main screen


2) Select 'New tag...' from the Movies/Tags menu


3) Give that tag a name like 'test'


4) Now KODI asks which movies I'd like to add to that tag


5) Like I wrote before, I select the first two Episodes from the Star Wars Saga which belong to a total set of 7 movies


6) After selecting those two I click on 'OK' to get back to the 'Movies/test' Tag overview

As you can see, KODI added the movie set these first two episodes belong to (which is NOT what I've selected at 5) )

7) Now selecting this set confirms that there are ALL movies of the set shown, not just Episode One and Two.


I don't think this should be the desired outcome. KODI should just show those two movies I've added the 'test' tag to.

[Karellen]

Thanks for the images. That is exactly what I have done. BUT... because you have blurred almost everything out, the images are just generic and I cannot pick out cues for your movies that might help solve it. (I don't understand why you have done that. We don't care what movies you have, for future reference)

So I am back to my original statement, unless you want to repost the images without all the blur.

How do you have the Star Wars files saved to your HDD's?

[Karellen]

Also a Debug Log in which you run an Update Library might reveal something.

[Timbu]

All that is blurred out are just names that do not matter to the issue. I can give you links to unedited screenshots via pn but I don't wish to post these in public. Please understand I don't do this to annoy you.

Movies are saved as Matroska files. Each in it's own folder with access over a SAMBA network share on a NAS.
KODI database is stored on a MySQL server on a NAS as well.

Issue appears on Android and Windows devices. They all access the same MySQL database.

[Karellen]

Good old MySQL. That is something I cannot assist with, and I think therein lies the issue.

I would like to see the unedited images if you don't mind please. Just the images from steps 4 & 5. PM is fine.

[Timbu]

Okay, I did some more testing.

MySQL doesn't seem to be the source of the problem.

I removed database access on one of my Android tablets and created a small local library with these 7 movies.
After that I've repeated the steps above and got the very same result.

However, disabling 'show movie sets' in the settings:


...gives the desired result and shows only those two movies I've added the 'test' tag to:


So I guess there is a problem between movie sets and tags, at least on my systems/sources configuration.

Have you enabled 'show movie sets' in your settings?

[Karellen]

Well... I can now replicate that issue once I activate that setting.

Nice catch

Maybe you would like to make a Bug Report using the Code link at the top of the page. Though I am not sure if it is a bug, as the result matches what is normally supposed to happen.

[jjd-uk]

A fix has been produced and is waiting approval, will post again once merged.

[Timbu]

Though I am not sure if it is a bug, as the result matches what is normally supposed to happen.

I think the correct result should be showing just the tagged movies. Either grouped to a set or not. And nothing else.

[Timbu]

A fix has been produced and is waiting approval, will post again once merged.

 Thank you! Thats great news!!!