Author Topic: Solved - Keeping track of what you've watched on your PC (Read 2247 times)

lightshow · « **on:** January 25, 2010, 09:43:51 PM »

So, if you're like me you get a new series and start watching it.

The next day you don't really remember if you are on episode 8 or 9. So you have to open episode 8 scan through and see if you've seen it or not.

Or you keep a notepad document open and mark off the last episode you watched.

No longer!!

Now I use XBMC (a big front end media center that's cross platform).

Inside it, you navigate to your anime folder:

(It has a long filename so it gets cut off. The gui supports scrolling though. Also you can set up NFS or SMB/Windows shares to view as well as Tversity, Upnp, etc.)

You'll see the little check box beside all the anime you've already watched. Plus it has resume features and more.

If you only like to use a particular player, you can set up rules to have it launch that external player for certain filetypes (so you can play your blueray rips in coreavc to take advantage of GPU processing, etc.)

Best of all, it has built in Windows MCE remote configuration so out of the box you can use your Windows MCE remote (plus program others with the help of Event Ghost).

Really, the reason I like it, is because it plays everything out of the box, it integrate with my remote, I can remotely choose "Shutdown" and it will turn off my computer through its GUI, and it keeps track of which episodes I watched.

Boxee is a branch of its source if you've heard of them.

www.xbmc.org -> Windows (installer or portable), Mac, Linux, Live CD Distro (for HTPC's ), Apple Tv

kurandoinu · « **Reply #1 on:** January 25, 2010, 09:50:24 PM »

I use XBMC on osx, and I don't recall seeing this tick. I'll have to go look now and see...

Carnivus · « **Reply #2 on:** January 25, 2010, 09:50:59 PM »

Wow,very nice and helpful.Does it also keep the track of the series?For example when you finish the season/folder,does it keep it somewhere or forgets something as soon as you watch the next episode?

macros74 · « **Reply #3 on:** January 25, 2010, 09:52:37 PM »

Looks nice!

But...

You choose Avatar as an example "anime"?

kurandoinu · « **Reply #4 on:** January 25, 2010, 09:57:26 PM »

Nope. Watched an episode of Chi's Sweet Home to test, and no tickbox for me. Sad times!

Takeshi · « **Reply #5 on:** January 25, 2010, 10:09:25 PM »

Quote from: kurandoinu on January 25, 2010, 09:57:26 PM

Nope. Watched an episode of Chi's Sweet Home to test, and no tickbox for me. Sad times!

Maybe you need to check your settings - not saying I know it's there, but there might be something.

I tried Boxee, but it just isn't my thing. Maybe the fact that a nasty software program is grabbing my files has something to do with it - same reason why I stick to MPC-HC instead of Windows Media Player.

Humanoidz · « **Reply #6 on:** January 25, 2010, 10:43:01 PM »

Interesting. I ALWAYS check the previous episode because if I don't, I feel like I skipped an episode.

Carnivus · « **Reply #7 on:** January 25, 2010, 10:48:19 PM »

Just tried it for a longer time.Is great.
It is basically a better Windows Media Center.To be read as a lot better than WMC.

lightshow · « **Reply #8 on:** January 28, 2010, 12:29:17 PM »

I think this feature is part of the new build. I got mine from SVN. I'll let you know when it's integrated into the public build.
You can also grab the XBMC auto updater (http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=48517) for windows from their forums to upgrade to the latest SVN version.

Don't slam Avatar, that show is awesome.

As for the little checks, they stay forever. So you can go to another folder and watcher another show then come back and your checks of what you've watched are still there.

macros74 · « **Reply #9 on:** January 28, 2010, 12:45:51 PM »

Quote from: lightshow on January 28, 2010, 12:29:17 PM

Don't slam Avatar, that show is awesome.

Oh, I completely agree, it's just not considered to be anime, so I had to chuckle when I saw the example...

Enzedder · « **Reply #10 on:** January 28, 2010, 01:00:25 PM »

I am using XBMC on my second monitor and it doesn't come up when I finish an episode but usually when I start the next. Usually though I am not in need of this feature. Its good for the longer anime but usually I try to finish a series before starting another so I have no more than 4 active at a time and that is easy to keep a track of in my head.

XBMC is nice like that but I would like the ability to select multiple episodes and tick them all off at once because all the anime that I have watched before I installed doesn't count as watched so if I want to track all them as well then I am stuck doing it one by one. I am not ticking off 4000 episodes individually I can tell you that right now.

What I would like is ticking of entire folders. I am yet to watch everything in a folder to find out if it ticks the folder but this would be a handy feature when sifting through the rafts of stuff that I am seeding back and trying to find things that I have just finished.

P.S. Avatar not anime but definitely awesome. ^_^

morrefule · « **Reply #11 on:** January 28, 2010, 03:11:43 PM »

or you can make it easy on yourself and just watch things in 5 episode blocks. that way you always know where you are, and in a 12-13 episode series you can leave the end to wrap up in a swift shot!

Or you can be like me and learn how to love excell

K7IA · « **Reply #12 on:** January 28, 2010, 03:30:38 PM »

I just create a file like "@ep05" to track the series episodes, allows mobility and is independent from any software

fizzmaister · « **Reply #13 on:** January 28, 2010, 03:56:19 PM »

I just copy my files over to my external, and then I delete the videos on my laptop as I watch them.

DaggerLite · « **Reply #14 on:** January 28, 2010, 04:02:23 PM »

Quote from: fizzmaister on January 28, 2010, 03:56:19 PM

I just copy my files over to my external, and then I delete the videos on my laptop as I watch them.

I do this. ^ ;)

kureshii · « **Reply #15 on:** January 28, 2010, 04:48:23 PM »

http://www.anime-planet.com/users/kureshii/anime/watching

I have a shortcut that opens that page in Chrome (using Chrome's 'application shortcuts' feature). On your own account, the page is easily updated via drop-down lists, no page refreshing whatsoever. That's the easiest system I've found yet.

If you're starting a new series, just do an A-P search for it, set it to watching and it'll appear in that page.

Sosseres · « **Reply #16 on:** January 28, 2010, 09:53:47 PM »

I delete files as I've watched them. Pretty full-proof system. Keep the folder open since I drag/drop from it, then just delete as I go along.

muthafucka · « **Reply #17 on:** January 29, 2010, 11:05:08 PM »

I just delete the episodes as soon as I finish watching.
This is how everybody should be doing, and if you really like it, support the artist and buy the blueray/DVD. If it's meh then a fansub would do I guess.

How many Anime DVD's do I own you say?

ange10 · « **Reply #18 on:** January 31, 2010, 05:17:29 PM »

Quote from: muthafucka on January 29, 2010, 11:05:08 PM

I just delete the episodes as soon as I finish watching.
This is how everybody should be doing, and if you really like it, support the artist and buy the blueray/DVD. If it's meh then a fansub would do I guess.

How many Anime DVD's do I own you say?

If the dvds are there, then you should just buy them first then watch the videos, because in the end, its not about how well you enjoyed it, your viewing one of their products and you should pay for using that product, because thats how they make money.

So really you can't say "that is what everyone should be doing" because end of the day, we are just taking advantage of the system, that way we don't get in trouble.

kurandoinu · « **Reply #19 on:** January 31, 2010, 07:39:41 PM »

I updated it and now I have the magical ticks! Huzzah!