Design the next SMM View!!! Show me what you want.

[Skirge01]

PluckyHD, I found this on ultimateavmag.com:

The Movie List comes up by default in alphabetical order, but can also be easily sorted by genre, rating, star, director, year of release, or running time. You can also select and browse the films by viewing their cover art. When you select this option, the artwork for the last film under the cursor in the Movie List appears at the center of the screen. It's surrounded by the covers for roughly 20 other films judged by the system to be similar in some way (if all the system's selections can't fit, the displayed covers shift around after a few seconds). Most of the time, the selections are appropriate, but there were often some fun combinations. Saving Private Ryan and Sleepless in Seattle? Sideways and Spider-Man? The Court Jester and The Lord of the Rings? Double feature, anyone?

You can also select films on the master Movie List for inclusion in a number of subcategories, called Collections. These including Academy Award Winners, (personal) Favorites, Music, and Watch Soon. There are also some automatically updated Collections, like New (for movies you've recently loaded) and Pause (for DVDs you've paused and want to come back to minutes or up to two days later). There's also an intriguing Collection called HD Movies. More about this a bit further on.

[broconne]

Originally Posted by PLUCKYHD

Yeah I posted that above

I am just stumped on their sorting logic on the wall doesn't seem usable to me.

I looked at it some more.. I do think anything off the current screen is "random" and everyone on the current screen is related to the selected movie. In some other videos, you can see they have a "shuffle" button which seems to shuffle what is on your screen currently.

I think the random actually may make some sense. You are viewing it as a pragmatic - I know what movie I am looking to find. However, I think this view is more about "rediscovering" what you have and getting ideas on what to watch.

On second thought. It might not be just random - but instead could be things you watched recently - or perhaps.. haven't watched in a long time. Or some combination of watch date and number of times watched. Try to get a good mix of favorites, things you have watched a lot, but haven't seen in a while, and things never seen?

[PLUCKYHD]

Originally Posted by Skirge01

PluckyHD, I found this on ultimateavmag.com:

Good Find

Now that makes a bit of since I wonder what it does when you scroll outside of that say 20 or so "like" films....

but giving that it actually kind of makes since you scroll the list find something you like hit posters and you get similiar movies in a poster view. That seems usable.

[tonysathre]

I can't see any sorting logic either. Instead of using their sorting logic, wouldn't it be better to have it alphabetical anyways?

[PLUCKYHD]

Originally Posted by tonysathre

I can't see any sorting logic either. Instead of using their sorting logic, wouldn't it be better to have it alphabetical anyways?

That's the point you can't sort it when scrolling multiple directions and wrapping hence they do not. That view is not meant to go hunting for a title you are looking for but more of a graphical similair type view.

[teq]

Originally Posted by PLUCKYHD

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We have about 7 custom views set up each with different sorting and filters that allow us to select a wall that will limit our options automatically everytime. Some examples

1. New Movies - Wall view will watched movies filtered out sorted by date added movies shown first
2. Online Movies - Filtered to only show playon movies sorted by date added first
3. Unwatched movies -sorted by title filtered out all watched movies
4. Kids Movies- Adds in the adult restriction to only show rated G movies.

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Yes, I am starting to think that custom views are one of SMM's best features. A bit OT, but just a very small suggestion that might make custom views even more useful:

• Allow selection of a custom view as default view
• Allow defining the order in which custom views are displayed in the SMM menu (while you're at it - allow defining the order of all views)

Cheers,
teq