Can I make a feature request? Or maybe ask the hive mind here if anyone has a better workaround for the following:
Right now I use the favorites feature to hide what I don't want to display on the flow. For example, I have a "games" source in which NAND titles are mixed in with Wii, homebrew and emulator plugins, but I only want the games to show up in the games flow, so I click favorite on the wiiware and virtual console titles, skipping things I don't want like shop channel and mii channel, etc, and then click the star to show favorites only (and click to remember the favorites state in settings).
The problem is, whenever I add something new, like a new video to the USB storage, I have to not only refresh cache so it shows up, I have to remember to also favorite it (which means turning off show favorites, find the new titles, add them as favorites, go back to show favorites only). I don't want or need favorites on the video player flow, only for games to filter out the non-game titles. But I understand it is a global parameter that effects all sources in the menu.
Possible solutions could be:
1) Have favorites enabled/disabled per source menu option instead of globally.
2) A way to hide unwanted titles as opposed to showing only what I DO want. That way any new addition would be shown by default instead of the other way around.
3) A way to implicitly select what is contained in a source. I would imagine this could work similarly to the way the source menu is defined in the ini file, except instead of telling it to display all items of a particular file type or source, the specific titles could be listed. Example: [Source=NAND, Title=JAAE] for super mario world virtual console, followed by a comma and then the next entry, [Source=Wii, Title="RMCP01"] for Mario Kart, etc, for anything you want to appear in that menu. I know that we can currently make a source menu option that jumps directly to launching a title if selected using the autoboot line (and I use this to add Netflix to my source menu), but I don't think I've seen any way to implicitly list what could be contained within it instead of autoboot. The advantage of doing it this way is that we can have different titles show up in different sources- for example, games in NAND could could included with Games, and Netflix could appear in Video, rather than have ALL nand sources in one flow or the other. If that makes sense.
4) Categories? I'm not sure if this would do me any good, I did see there was a way to tag titles for different categories but I feel like I'd be in the position as I started in, having to manually go in and tag every new title I add to the library.
Right now I use the favorites feature to hide what I don't want to display on the flow. For example, I have a "games" source in which NAND titles are mixed in with Wii, homebrew and emulator plugins, but I only want the games to show up in the games flow, so I click favorite on the wiiware and virtual console titles, skipping things I don't want like shop channel and mii channel, etc, and then click the star to show favorites only (and click to remember the favorites state in settings).
The problem is, whenever I add something new, like a new video to the USB storage, I have to not only refresh cache so it shows up, I have to remember to also favorite it (which means turning off show favorites, find the new titles, add them as favorites, go back to show favorites only). I don't want or need favorites on the video player flow, only for games to filter out the non-game titles. But I understand it is a global parameter that effects all sources in the menu.
Possible solutions could be:
1) Have favorites enabled/disabled per source menu option instead of globally.
2) A way to hide unwanted titles as opposed to showing only what I DO want. That way any new addition would be shown by default instead of the other way around.
3) A way to implicitly select what is contained in a source. I would imagine this could work similarly to the way the source menu is defined in the ini file, except instead of telling it to display all items of a particular file type or source, the specific titles could be listed. Example: [Source=NAND, Title=JAAE] for super mario world virtual console, followed by a comma and then the next entry, [Source=Wii, Title="RMCP01"] for Mario Kart, etc, for anything you want to appear in that menu. I know that we can currently make a source menu option that jumps directly to launching a title if selected using the autoboot line (and I use this to add Netflix to my source menu), but I don't think I've seen any way to implicitly list what could be contained within it instead of autoboot. The advantage of doing it this way is that we can have different titles show up in different sources- for example, games in NAND could could included with Games, and Netflix could appear in Video, rather than have ALL nand sources in one flow or the other. If that makes sense.
4) Categories? I'm not sure if this would do me any good, I did see there was a way to tag titles for different categories but I feel like I'd be in the position as I started in, having to manually go in and tag every new title I add to the library.