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So, I have many DVD rips of episodes from the TV series, The Twilight Zone. They are presently cataloged as can be seen above:
- Filename = The Twilight Zone (S#E##)
- Title
- The Twilight Zone
- Season #, Episode ##
- EPISODE TITLE
- First Air Date: ... xxx ...
So given the above outlined scenario, what would be the best strategy to have IMatch display these files, but have the display be organized in a hierarchical manner. For example, I'd like all the shows cataloged so that there are entries under Season 1, Season 2, etc. Would I have to somehow make use of a data driven category, or is there a simpler way with filtering? Thanks.
I would go for a data-driven category, created from the individual sections of the file name.
Or, probably quicker for this one-time job, create the categories yourself and assign the files. Should take a couple of minutes, max.
The later approach of just manually creating the categories would probably be the easiest, but then those categories would have to be permanent and taking up space. I was hoping for a way, where the data would somehow be stored in the database or embedded in the file, and then I could have a more 'on-demand' way of displaying them as needed.
Categories don't take up much "space" on disk or memory. You can store a couple of categories in the same "space" a normal JPEG image uses.