Infuse currently uses the modified/created dates of a file to determine where a new file goes in the “Recently Added” lists for both TV shows and Movies.
Infuse used to use the date that the file was first seen by Infuse but on a new install of Infuse the initial list would be a reverse alphabetical ordered list of the first scan so it was changed to the modified/created date. While this is an undesirable result it only affects the very first time you add mass files to Infuse.
Now if you’re file was created say a few days or a week before others you add it will be further down or even off the Recently added lists even though you actually added it last.
Can we get Infuse to changed back to the “First Seen By Infuse” date for “Recently Added” lists on both TV shows and Movies?
I again added a series I had ripped a few years ago that was stored on removable media. When I added it to my server the dates were still the dates of when ripped so none showed up in the recently added list.
It still makes more sense to me to use the “First seen by Infuse date” instead of the modified created date of the file for adding it to the recently added.
All programs show what you recently add if you remove it and put it back in a week will not appear as you included it but if it is different or different version if it will appear as new.
But in Infuse it’s no use because if I put a full series it won’t show any more because it’s over 30 and I have to go get it one by one is horrible
Last night I added 200+ TV episodes that I have kept off loaded until I got some time that I could watch some old series and not ONE EPISODE was showing in the “Recently Added” section.
The downside used to warrant using the file date vs the date Infuse first sees a file is really only applicable the first time a user adds a group of files. After that you’d be better served using the date you added the file to Infuse as the test for “Recently Added” which would be correct.
Or change “Recently Added” to “Recently Created/Modified” because the way it stands now it’s not files recently added to Infuse.
What happens if you change the name of the containing folder — or, if that doesn’t work, batch change the names of the episode video files (and then change them back)? Does not that update the modified date and get Infuse to now recognize them as “recently added”?
Edit to add all of the following:
Because I’m always juggling file space on my server (who knew 40TB wouldn’t be enough?) I add folder-size info to the containing folders of all TV series and Movies that are greater than 3gb in size, so I can decide what to move offline if needed.
A couple examples:
Expanse ,The (2015) 4K HDR 344gb ¦ Ø House of the Dragon (2022) 4K HDR 93gb Ø
[ The ¦ tells me at a glance that the series is complete (ended, canceled) and the Ø similarly tells me the resolution is 2160p and codec x265. The same character in lowercase (ø) indicates 1080p x265, and various other symbols serve to tell me different resolution/coded combinations, whether I own the title on disc, and various other details I find useful to know. ]
When I add a new season’s worth of episodes, I update the folder size. Or, I may update the folder size from a folder name that previously didn’t include that data (since doing so has been but a recent addition to my workflow) in the process of managing other tasks.
That usually causes the series to be recognized by Infuse as new.
Sometimes, I only need to access a movie folder on my server through Symbology’s DS Files app and that will trigger an update that gets it recognized as “recently added”.
I appreciate the ideas, I’ve been doing some sort of changes for a while. I’m just asking Firecore to do what the feature says.
Again, the “recently added” should be just that regardless of the file creation date or modification date. I really don’t see how it could be anything other than when a file is added to Infuse. Period. I understand that if you add tons of files it may be alphabetical for a while but since Infuse changed to show the most recent tv “Series” added instead of “episodes” that will go a long way to making the adding of many files less of an issue.
Recently Added = Recently Added. A user shouldn’t have to massage the files to make that work.
Wanna know a crazy thing I started doing? As I remove content from my NAS (after backing it up on pairs of non-networked hard drives) to free up space for newer stuff, I just replace the video files with copies of a one second long x265 video clip of either of the two attached still photos, which I whipped up in photoshop.
I wrote a little script to mostly automate the process making the effort minimal. Keeps the content “in” Infuse with all its metadata, my custom artwork, and watched statuses intact, while still freeing up maximal space (each video clip is only 31 kilobytes in size).
As I have said many times since years, the newly added option has never solved it is useless because it only shows 30.
The rest of the world doesn’t show up anymore.
I have to go to plex see the new ones and then search the title in Infuse since there is no other way.
With the series it is worse when I put in a full series only appeared a series in “recently added” appeared now it takes it as one but the limit is the same 30 in series I overcome it daily and it is never functional.
The funny thing is that in Appletv 2 when Infuse started if the recently added option is and everything appeared in that order like Plex, Jellyfin, DSvideo etc.
Only Infuse can’t implement that option or add 200 films instead of 30.
I have to comment on this with every new year and home new version.
I’m waiting for the new version to pay for subscription like every year and this time I’m using the beta to see if it’s improved V7 is the worst version since it came out.
The information in a movie a series looks very small on one side down and it doesn’t work.
In the previous reports, the information was clearly shown with larger letters.
They wanted to make it pretty but it’s not functional and practical.
Not sure how that works if, for instance, I rename a main folder. Then all the movies inside would now show up in recently added even though I may have added them a long time ago because the file path has changed. And you couldn’t use title as the key since you might have multiple versions of the same title. So I feel like using modified date works better. I’m not sure how many people have videos they are offloaded and not in infuse and only just added them.
Plus if you rebuild infuse everything would be off. It is easy enough to touch the files to change the date to now if you want them to show up.
How often are you adding more than 30 items besides initial setup? I might get a couple movies a month, more during Black Friday/holidays, but if you are regularly adding more than 30 then that seems like a unique situation.
Yeah, it’s not just the situation for me is normal.
I have to add 89 right now but I always wait at 11:00 I’ll have more and tomorrow I start again I’ve taken a capture but I’m not publicizing it for the information it shows.
But that’s normal for me.
I’ve got a Rack with 5 Nas and 21 hard drives.
I have threads on the forum with catches where they only park 1 or 3 series.
It happens by the limit I overcome it every day and I don’t have the “newly added” option to look at other programs and re-infuse.
It’s not about the 30 item limit on the recently added or how to make it work with additional file manipulation, I’ve been doing that since the change as have many others.
It’s a request for Firecore to display files in the “Recently Added” list based on what are the most recent files added to Infuse.
If you would like for Infuse to show files that you have just added to your library in the “Recently Added” list without having to manipulate the file then like the first post in this thread.
Do you mean most recently added files or most recently added titles?
Questions:
If you re-add titles you’d added to Infuse long ago but also long-since removed and kept offline, should those titles appear in recents or not?
What if you re-rip a title that’s long been in your collection to create a higher-quality version and then add that back into infuse — should it show as recently added or not?
If you add titles you ripped long ago but never added to infuse, I gather you want those to show up in recently added, even if the file modified dates are much older than whatever is currently showing in “Recently Added”?
Files, the title shouldn’t come into play for Recently Added. It’s new to Infuse so show it.
If removed then hopefully Infuse will have removed it from it’s database and if re-added then it should be in the recently added.
It should show in the recently added. It’s a new file and if I’m adding it I want to see it’s been added. If I go to the effort to rip a 4K of an old SD DVD that is already in my Infuse library I want the new rip to show in the Recently Added when I add it. The new feature of multiple copies that Firecore is working on should show all the different copies of what ever video I add so that should be a non issue.
Correct. They are newly added to Infuse so they should show in the list regardless of the rip date. They are recently added to Infuse.
I’m not sure how to clarify it any more, it I add a file/title/video regardless of what you want to call it I want to see it as new in the recently added.
I’m honestly very surprised at the decision to ever switch to file system created / updated date. It seems incredibly shortsighted.
People use all kinds of files and file systems. They mount drives, mount cloud drives, merge file systems, source their video files from all kinds of obscure places. To expect any of the filesystem time stamps to reflect any kind of useful reality just doesn’t seem like the correct decision here.
It used to be that “recently added” was useless upon first setup, then become useful upon adding new files. Now it never becomes useful, ever.
One thing to realize about “recently added” is that it shouldn’t care about dates. It should care about order. So internally it shouldn’t use dates for order, but integers. If many files are appearing at the same time, your job is to order these new files in relation to each other in the best way possible, but NEVER older than any files that were added before. This means approximately the following algorithm:
Use a bigint-like data struct
When refresh job starts, store the max bigint currently in the library into memory.
For each new file you find, set its order index to its created Unix epoch timestamp + the int you have in memory. To save the bigint space, you can subtract most of the years (like 53 years) away from the epoch time stamp because we don’t care about real timestamp, just using it as an index.
There’s probably a better way to get the epoch timestamp as of a certain constant date, without having to subtract 53 years, but you get the gist.
Rinse and repeat for each library refresh. This way every batch of files you add is always ordered newer than previous batch, and the file system is used as a tiebreaker inside the batch.
I’m surprised that infuse still uses the same sort for recently added. It would be so simple to give users a choice of how to sort. It must be the Apple influence of telling users what they need to do, not what would they like to do. Choices solve many issues.
Seems like it would be a lot easier to record the date and time of import to Infuse rather than manage this integer thing, if you require that much precision.
This is very much key to the Apple ethos, and Infuse is an Apple-exclusive product.
I’ve always felt Apple likely limits user options to simply things to prevent confusion among their majority non-tech savvy users and simplifying the tech support tree since there’s only a few possible configurations devices can be put in; and that users who obsess about making devices bend to their own will as it would be most efficient to them (like myself), as opposed to accepting the choices Apple makes for them, aren’t a significant enough percentage of their users.
To their credit — it’s a strategy that clearly works: Three trillion dollar valuation.
And Apple devices seldom require the depth of troubleshooting my PC does — but that’s primarily because of the challenge of getting all my third-party UI customizations working together, with a far wider variety of software and software versions and ages.
I meant to continue: I feel Firecore has been very resistant to grow their settings menu, which could potentially double in size if they give us all the settings toggles and feature options we are asking for.
I keep hoping they’ll go the Kodi way (and that of many other software suites) that hide the ‘power user’ (or, as applies to me, the rather particular ‘OCD user’) settings that don’t effect basic functioning behind an “expert settings” menu tab to alleviate this concern — since the very nature of Infuse suggest Firecore has a much higher percentage of these particular users than Apple has generally.
