Background – Because of the craptastic internet available I cant really do much in the way of streaming so I save all of my files to my Windows 7 HTPC for playback. Currently have over 2400 movies saved and the best way to view my library is through Video->Files instead of using the Movies node. My movies folder structure is Movies\Letter\movie so: Movies\B\Batman.mkv. From what I understand the movies node management basically expects all movies to be in one giant folder but due to Windows explorer slowdowns on trying to populate a folder with that much info I had to create the Alphabet sub folder structure; which solved some speed issues I had in XMBC/Kodi. I have looked into the extra node management addons as well as the external file management software(Ember, MediaElch, Filebot, etc) but none seem to be able to change how Kodi defines the library.
Question/Request – Can the Movies node be modifiable in such a away to to read files with the added Alphabetical folder added while including all of the nice extra content you can get from the media scrapers? If I go through the Videos node to read the full folder structure I can play the movies just fine, but dont get the extra scraper info or tagging.
Referencing http://kodi.wiki/view/Naming_video_files/Movies for movie folder structure and naming convention.