Extras naming style limits have broken library

Breaking this out from the main extras thread:

Thanks for adding extras…fantastic long awaited feature. Unfortunately the feature has sort of broken my library.

As of 8.4.1, I suddenly have 300+ new “movies” in my library. Turns out they’re all extras.

A lot of us have likely been organizing extras for years in anticipation of integration into Infuse. So I’ve been a little caught off guard by the limited folder naming styles.

Many are just in “Extras” and “Featurettes” folders but others are organized into subfolders that mimic the menus on the Blu-Rays & DVDs they came from.

Example:

With 8.4.1, the 7 featurettes that aren’t in subfolders show up under the main 4K DV movie:

But everything in a non-recognized extras folder naming style is either a different version of Minority Report or its own movie:

I promise I don’t have 16 versions of Minority Report :sweat_smile:! The other 15 “versions” of are just 1-3 minute extras. Infuse added the rest of the extras as their own movie.

With the hundreds of extras added as “movies”, my library now looks like this:

Can we have any subfolder name within an “Extras” or “Featurettes” folder acts as a custom “naming style”? This way videos within a subfolder called “Storyboards” or “From Story to Screen” don’t get added as random “movies” based on the title of the extra?

Or at least an Extras on/off settings toggle in the meantime?

I’m a bit lost as to what to do in the meantime as I suddenly have 300+ extras showing up as “movies” mixed into my library. And I’d rather not think of the hours it will take to go through over 1500 movie folders (+ dozens of TV series folders) to find which ones have extras/featurettes with unrecognized subfolder naming styles :downcast_face_with_sweat:

Thanks!

Did you ever figure this out? I started toying around with extras yesterday and got the same results you did. I can’t get a single extra ever to show up with the movie or tv show it’s related to, it always appears in the main library as another version of the movie, or worse, something completely unrelated. eg, I have an extra in a subfolder called “Surviving Footage” and it’s the first thing on my Home Screen under “Clapboard jungle: Surviving the Independent Film Business”

You probably need to change the names of the subfolders as described in the users guide.

Check out the example under Folder based organization

Unfortunately not. My recently added, Picks of the Day, and overall library are still littered with extras listed as movies.

With nearly 1,600 movies built up over years, I’ve yet to have time to go through each individual folder to find out which ones have extras and which of those extras are in unrecognized subfolders…and I’m dreading starting.

For now, it’s a mess.