Movie sets

Video library

Management

Movie sets

XBMC can optionally sort your movies into sets for better organization. Movies sets are for sequels or movies that are otherwise apart of a directly related series, rather than a genre or playlist. Movies can only be in one set at a time. Movie sets can be defined by the scraper, by NFO files, or by using XBMC's built-in sets editor.

Note: Movies can only be in one set at a time, and are meant for series of movies such as sequels. For multiple sets/collections check out video library tags.

Grouping movies into sets when browsing in the library

To enable organizing movies in sets, go to Settings -> Videos -> Library and select Group movies in sets.

Automatic movie sets data

From XBMC version 11 "Eden", movie sets data is downloaded automatically when you scan movies into the library.

To prevent movies being scraped into sets, change your scraper to Add-on:Universal Scraper and change it's scraper settings to "don't scrape movie sets".

If the movie is still in the XBMC Video library, then you will need to refresh a given movie(s) to download the sets data, or manually add movies to sets using the #Movie sets manager.

Movie set management

From XBMC v13 "Gotham", XBMC has a built-in GUI editor for changing, adding, and removing movies and movie sets.

In the following examples we have six movies total, two are in one set (Ghostbusters), three are in a second set (Back to the Future), and one is alone (3:10 to Yuma).

Displaying sets

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  Once scanned in using the automatic information downloaded from online scrapers we can group movies visually into sets by turning on the "Group movies in sets" option. The cover is taken from one of the existing movies can can be changed later if desired. Here we see the detail Title node where we normally see all our movies.

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  You can also view all the sets, even with "Group movies in sets" disabled, by going to the sets node Video library -> Sets.

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  Here we only see movies sets themselves, so any movie not in a set will not show up in the Sets node. Note: If a movie is in a set, but you only have one of those movies in your library, it will show up under the Sets node. However, it will not show up as a set in your other library views when "Group movies in sets" is enabled.

Editing sets from the movie set

There are two ways to edit a movie set. The first is to select a set from the Sets node Video library -> Sets or select the set in other views when "Group movies in sets" is enabled.

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  Step 1: Select a movie set and bring up the context menu (C or Menu) and select Manage...

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  Step 2: ...and then Manage movie set.

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  Step 3: This will show a list of all movies in the library and allow us to highlight or highlight what movies should be in the currently selected set. Press the OK button when you are done highlighting movies to save the changes to the set. Note: Unselecting all movies for a set will remove that set from the library, but the individual movies will remain in the library.

Editing sets from the individual movie

The second way to edit a set is to select the movie anywhere in a library view where the individual movie can be selected.

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  In this example we are starting with a movie that is not currently in a set (3:10 to Yuma). We can bring up the context menu (C or Menu) on the individual movie. Like before, we then select Manage and then Manage movie sets. Instead of showing us a list of movies, we now see a list of existing movie sets.

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  If we want to start a new set we can select Add movie to a new set which will bring up an input box for us to enter a title for that set.

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  In this example we have added the movie 3:10 to Yuma to the Back to the Future movie set.

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  When a movie is already in a set, when we select Manage' and then Manage movie sets, we have additional options to Keep current set or No set (which will remove the movie from the set it is currently in). Note: If you remove each individual movie from a set it will remove that set from the library, but the individual movies will remain in the library.

Manually organizing movie sets with NFO files

Main page: NFO files/movies#Movie sets

Adding artwork for a set

Your new movie library will look like the one below, displaying a folder with the set name that you can click on to view the entire set of movies. You can set the thumbnail that will be displayed when you select the movie set by opening the context menu when selecting the set and choosing "Set Movieset Thumb".