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Request: Enhancement to Showtime (Updated)

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Moe:
I was wondering if it would be possible to be able to save separate profiles for Showtime.  I fiddle with my Showtime rules quite a bit and it can be annoying to remember how to set things up.  It would be nice to be able to save a set of Showtime rules to a profile.  Then we could switch between profiles without having to rebuild the rules each time.  For instance, one profile could look like this


--- Code: ---1:[Pre-Show]=[THX]
1:[Pre-Show]=[[Audio Intro]]
1:[Pre-Show]=[Coming Attractions]
3:[Pre-Show]=[Trailers]

--- End code ---

and then you could have another profile with these rules


--- Code: ---1:[Pre-Show]=[[Audio Intro]]
1:[TrailerYear]=[[TrailerShuffle]]
1:[Pre-Show]=[Trailer]
1:[Trailer Genre]=[[Genre]]
1:[Pre-Show]=[On With the Show]

--- End code ---

I am picturing something like this



If the above is too complicated, could you add a way to comment out a line in the Showtime rules? Like putting # at the start of the line so it's ignored so you could have something like this where only the lines without the # are honored for playback.


--- Code: ---1:[Pre-Show]=[THX]
1:[Pre-Show]=[[Audio Intro]]
1:[Pre-Show]=[Coming Attractions]
3:[Pre-Show]=[Trailers]

#1:[Pre-Show]=[[Audio Intro]]
#1:[TrailerYear]=[[TrailerShuffle]]
#1:[Pre-Show]=[Trailer]
#1:[Trailer Genre]=[[Genre]]
#1:[Pre-Show]=[On With the Show]

--- End code ---

Thank you.

Moe:
I'd like to make another related request.

I'd like to be able to add something into the rules that would act as the movie itself, that way we can add things to happen after the movie.  For instance, if we could add a rule like [Feature]=[] that would represent the selected movie we could have rules like:


--- Code: ---1:[Pre-Show]=[THX]
1:[Pre-Show]=[[Audio Intro]]
1:[Pre-Show]=[Coming Attractions]
3:[Pre-Show]=[Trailers]
[Feature]=[]
1:[Pre-Show]=[After Show]

--- End code ---

eve:
These would be nice QoL features.
ShowTime + the desire for more sparked me to 're implement' the functionality of it on my own terms.

What I do is leverage MCWS commands to return relevant media keys for each showtime 'step', create a list with all of these and feed that to MC, then it takes my intended movie, slots it in the playlist at the end, and if my option to do 'after feature' playback is selected, it will populate the queue after the movie in a similar fashion.

All of this can happen with a button click in my front end UI when I'm viewing a movie.

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