Better Extra management

As it is now, managing extras for movies and show requires a great deal of work.

You have to create special folders with precise names, which adds to the burder of correctly naming media files. Plus, the available names are pre set and can’t be customized for less common material.

These are some changes that I think will make the mechanism both more customizable and easier to maintain.

You only have to create an “EXTRAS” folder in the same forlder as your movie (better if the name can be customized in the settings). Everything inside it is an extra.

If every folder inside the mail “EXTRA” folder becomes the name of the extra “category”. If you call it “Trailers”, it will show as the “Trailers” filder currently does. If you name it with a funny name, it will show with a funny name. Your choice.

Everything inside these folders will be scanned recursively and presented as an extra. that’s it. With this simple solution you sacrifice the automatic translation of the extra categories but I think it’s well worth it.

This would be already enough to make extras quite manageable. a step further would be to add a button in the interface that if clicked will present all extras in a simple list, similar to episodes in a series, that would be invaluable when you have lots of extras.

I’d vote for it… but I’ve been out of votes for years… if that says anything…

Early 2021 clean-up: duplicate