GetAllGroupingCategories

[Fonceur]

Using the current release (i.e. not the beta)...

If I use GetAllGroupingCategories("M"), I get all the categories of my music collection, as I would expect.

If I use GetAllGroupingCategories("T"), I get all the TV categories, that is all the categories from the whole EPG, not just the "IsTVFile" version (i.e. my actual recordings)... Anyway to distinguish between both?

If I use GetAllGroupingCategories("VDB"), that list does not match my "IsLibraryFile" list (i.e. all the imported videos), so I'm not sure where it's pulling those from...

[Opus4]

I'm not sure if it gets categories for just the existing video imports or whether it could be including any category that was used for an import at some time. But, do you have multi-category values that are comma or semicolon separated lists? If so, don't forget that this call will break those into their individual components.

- Andy

[Fonceur]

Actually, none of my imported videos have any metadata, which is why I found it funny that it listed Interview and Talk as 2 categories for the mask VDB...

But anyway, my main interest is in getting the currently available categories for the actual Recordings, not just all the possible ones...

[Opus4]

Originally Posted by Fonceur

But anyway, my main interest is in getting the currently available categories for the actual Recordings, not just all the possible ones...

No, none of the calls return the categories just for existing recordings; for TV shows, you will get the categories for all recordings, current EPG data, and airing history.

If you really need the list for just the current recordings, you may need to walk the list yourself, or try grouping the recordings using the following call, then get the keys for the map:
GroupByMethod( ListOfRecordings, "Categories" )

- Andy

[Fonceur]

Thanks for the suggestions.