[REQ] Subfolders within Pinned tree node

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peter_h
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[REQ] Subfolders within Pinned tree node

Post by peter_h »

I've been checking out the Pin It! function.
I like how I can throw pretty much any media type or mediaNode type in there (unlike playlists).

REQUEST: I'd love to be able to add sub-folders within the "Pinned" node, so I can organise "Pinboards" for each of my family members and friends, as a means of providing an easy curated menu of things they can do on my media server.

This simplification would help a great deal, for instance, when my mother comes to stay ;)
I do this kind of "curation" thing using the Favourites menu in Kodi, on her own media center, and it works brilliantly to not overwhelm her with choice, but also provide a couple of options to dig into a few select directories (both online and local), should she feel adventurous.

Pinboards would also mean a modification of the "Pin it" context menu item. It might change to something like "Pin to >" and have a list of the Pinboards pop out next to it.

Expanding on This Idea, for The Future...
Further down the line, someone (possibly me even, eventually? :-? ) could create an addon to be able to send & sync curated "Pinboards" to other people -- members of your family, or friends. Personally, this would be great for my family members, to allow my brothers and sisters -- if they each used MM as their desktop media hub -- to share in the curation of my mum's media consumption (A private VPN and media hosted on network shares supports this). They would just add to my mum's shared pinboard. As old folks age, they really need things to be simple -- and navigation of multiple unfamiliar libraries looking for something suitable to watch or listen to becomes just too frustrating for them, in my experience.
:) Pete, from Wellington, New Zealand.

Currently evaluating a migration from MM4 (4.1.31.1919 on Win7 SP1/16Gig RAM/intel) to MM2024 (latest Debug version on Win11 24H2/16GB RAM/intel)

**If you're wondering why I'm still on MM4: It still has more useful-to-me plugins; and I prefer the GUI's responsiveness, panes spreadable over multi-monitors flexibility, and predictability (all coz it's more Windows-native). I also hate "flat design" for its visual inefficiency. For me, MM4's benefits are still > MM5, and MM5's downsides < MM4. There still appears to be way less MM5 plugins -- even after all this time. MM5 docs for plugin developers seem very undeveloped to me -- which makes me uninclined to invest into learning how to improve MM5 for my own wants.