Feature Request - Additional Media (and gamelist.xml) [Batocera support]

[mikedmor]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
My setup consist of a network share containing all my ROMS, and a Raspberry PI running Batocera. Batocera appears to add some additional files and folders to my ROM folder under each platform folder (downloaded_images/, media/, _info.txt, and gamelist.xml). When scanning my ROMS folder in Gaseous Games these additional files are detected and pulled into the software as a ROM. Most of the images appear to be tied to the specific rom they belong to, but the _info.txt and gamelist.xml are not, instead the scan appears to consider them roms for an "Unknown Platform".

Describe the solution you'd like
Add the ability to skip/ignore specific file extensions that should not be considered when running the library scanner (IE: _info.txt and gamelist.xml). Additionally any media (images and videos) should be considered such when viewing a game. Right now it appears to consider all additional media as a rom for an unknown platform, but it does include it under the specific game listing:

Describe alternatives you've considered
I have attempted to remove these files and folders from my ROM folder, but Batocera just appears to recreate them. I have not found any way to force Batocera to store these under a different directory.

Additional context

[z0rnik]

Sadly this is a big issue. Ive just set up gaseous myself and now im seeing many, many pages at the rom detail page. Makes it practically unusable as im not going to click through the pages to find the rom.

[michael-j-green]

@z0rnik; I'm going to attach your existing issue to this one as they both cover similar issues.

[michael-j-green]

As stage one of a fix for this, I'll limit the importer to support only files with an extension listed under Settings -> Platform Mapping.

Supporting media files will have to come at a later date, as that's a bigger piece of work.

[kitwalker14]

As stage one of a fix for this, I'll limit the importer to support only files with an extension listed under Settings -> Platform Mapping.

Supporting media files will have to come at a later date, as that's a bigger piece of work.

This would be great, I have a large library, it will remove at least 45k items out of the DB...