Video library tags
Template:Frodo Starting from the pre-Frodo nightly builds of July XBMC supports Tags which can be applied to movies. They are meant to supplement Movie sets which are (by design) limited in their usage. A movie can have multiple tags attached and a tag can contain multiple tags.
Managing tags
through NFO files
To add a movie to one or multiple tags an NFO file can be created and for every tag an XML tag can be added like this
<movie> ... <tag>Name of the tag</tag> ... </movie>
If there's no tag with the specified name it will be automatically created and the tag will be attached to the movie.
in XBMC
There is limited support to manage tags in XBMC. Videos -> Library -> Movies -> Tags will display a list of all the existing tags. Opening a tag will show the list of movies which have that specific tag attached.
Creating a new tag
Using the "New tag..." button will open an input dialog where the user can enter the name of the new tag. If there's already a tag with that specific name an error will pop up and the process will be aborted. Otherwise the new tag will be created and the user will be prompted with a list of all movies. The user can select one or multiple movies which should be added to the new tag. Pressing OK will close the dialog and bring the user back to the list of tags where the newly created tag should be listed as well.
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Modifying existing tags
Opening the context menu of a specific tag will provide several options to modify the tag and the items it contains:
- Add Movies
- Opens a dialog with the list of all movies that do not have this tag attached yet. The user can select one or multiple movies which should be added to this tag.
- Remove Movies
- Opens a dialog with the list of movies that have this tag attached. The user can select one or multiple movies which should be removed from this tag. Removing all movies will not remove the tag.
- Remove from library
- Attempts to remove the tag from the library. The user will be prompted to confirm whether the tag should really be removed. Removing a tag will not remove the items it contains. It will only remove the specific tag from the library and therefore also from all the movies that had this tag attached.
Usage
Apart from the Tags view in Videos -> Library -> Movies -> Tags, tags can currently only be used in Smart Playlists as rules. In the future tags will be extended to not only support movies but also tvshows and musicvideos. Furthermore they could be integrated into the video info dialog and other parts of the user interface.