Folder View

Love Serviio and it is working great on my Samsung UN55D6400.

It would be great if Serviio did not show folders that do not contain valid media. I currently have all my digi-cam photos and video clips stored like so:

d:\Photos\2011\June Birthday
d:\Photos\2011\SomeOtherEvent

Both have photos but only the birthday folder has video. When I browse for videos in folder view both folders are listed but one is empty. This makes it very hard to go through my library watching videos for random events last year or three years ago as half the time I go into empty folders and have to back out again.

I realize tagging would be the way to go but I have more than 10 years of dig-cam clips that aren't going to get tagged anytime soon and I am pretty sure, in this, I am a good use case for the general population.

Thanks
Scott

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sounds reasonable: https://bitbucket.org/xnejp03/serviio/i ... ly-include

EDIT: actually after looking at it it looks quite difficult and would involve performance hit, so putting his on hold for now

Yip, I thought it may be difficult differentiating the media types from the device request. So I got thinking "How about adding the same folder twice and for the one only look for photos and the other videos." Unfortunately Serviio is smart enough not to let me do that

How about expanding on that concept and allow the same folder multiple times but give the root level a logical name.
i.e. Add d:\photos to the library searching for photos. Logical name = Photos and only sub-folders with photos are added to the library and hence displayed.
Add d:\photos to the library again but this time only searching for videos. Logical name = videos. Now only folders with videos will be added to the library.

The option of using logical names instead of the actual folder name would cater for the use-case above and would also enable users to "custom name" their folders for display on their device.

Just thinking aloud.