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Smart Playlist help - some files missing - ixalthim - 2019-08-26
I have been trying this for days now! I am trying to make a smart playlist that will list all shows that have a path that begins with 'smb://10.1.0.122/Recorded'.
I am using MYSQL syncing.
I have it partially working, but TV shows that are in the 'TV Shows' library are not being listed in the Smart Playlist. HOWEVER, if I change the content type to episodes, they show up fine.
For example, I have 6.5 seasons of the show Arrow that are in my 'TV drive', and I have 6 episodes on my 'Recorded TV' drive. I am trying to make a playlist that will only show the recorded episodes on the Recorded TV drive, but ANY series that is also on the TV Drive, and shows up under the 'TV Shows' main menu item will not be displayed.
What am I doing wrong?
As a side note, I had a series (Pandora) that scraped the wrong Meta Data, and it was showing up fine until I corrected it, then it disappeared!
All episodes do show up under the normal TV Shows item.
RE: Smart Playlist help - some files missing - Karellen - 2019-08-26
Post the xml file for the smart playlist or a screenshot of the smart playlist.
Do I understand that you want only the 6 episodes to show up? The last part of that sentence is ambiguous so not sure if you want TV Drive to show up or not.
RE: Smart Playlist help - some files missing - ixalthim - 2019-08-26
Thanks for responding. Basically, I only want things that are in the Recorded TV folder to show up. Nothing else. Here is the XML.
Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
<smartplaylist type="tvshows">
<name>Test</name>
<match>all</match>
<rule field="path" operator="startswith">
<value>smb://10.1.0.122/Recorded</value>
</rule>
</smartplaylist>smb://10.1.0.121/TV
Arrow
Season 07
Arrow - S07E01
Blindspot
Bull
Manifest
...
smb://10.1.0.122/Recorded TV
Arrow
Season 07
Arrow - S07E02
Blindspot
So You Think You Can Dance
The Outpost
In the above file structure, Arrow won't show up in the playlist since the 'Series' is in 2 locations. Hope that makes sense.
Looking at this though, I might have figured it out...I probably have to add a rule that has the other location, so that both rules are true...then it should only show them if they are in BOTH places. I'll try that and report back...
RE: Smart Playlist help - some files missing - ixalthim - 2019-08-26
Nope...here is the new riule, and it still has the same problem:
Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
<smartplaylist type="tvshows">
<name>Test</name>
<match>all</match>
<rule field="path" operator="startswith">
<value>smb://10.1.0.122/Recorded</value>
</rule>
<rule field="path" operator="startswith">
<value>smb://10.1.0.12</value>
</rule>
</smartplaylist>RE: Smart Playlist help - some files missing - Karellen - 2019-08-26
What happens if you change..
<match>all</match>
to...
<match>one</match>
RE: Smart Playlist help - some files missing - ixalthim - 2019-08-26
(2019-08-26, 02:29)Karellen Wrote: What happens if you change..Then it shows all items, not just the files in Recorded TV.
<match>all</match>
to...
<match>one</match>
RE: Smart Playlist help - some files missing - ixalthim - 2019-08-26
Ultimately, I am trying to put a 'Recorded TV' on the main roller menu so that I can go directly to shows that I have recorded, but not watched yet. Maybe there is a different way?
RE: Smart Playlist help - some files missing - ixalthim - 2019-08-27
So I noticed something new. Files that are in the Recorded TV Media Source that are also located in the TV Media Source do not show as TV Shows, which is why they are not showing in the playlist (I assume). Is it not possible to have a single TV show split across 2 drives?
RE: Smart Playlist help - some files missing - ixalthim - 2019-08-27
(2019-08-27, 00:35)ixalthim Wrote: So I noticed something new. Files that are in the Recorded TV Media Source that are also located in the TV Media Source do not show as TV Shows, which is why they are not showing in the playlist (I assume). Is it not possible to have a single TV show split across 2 drives?the above isn't entirely true...they don't show any scraped info in the Recorded TV Media Source, but they do actually show up as a TV Show in the TV Shows section, so I'm still at a loss.
RE: Smart Playlist help - some files missing - ixalthim - 2019-08-27
Looks like I finally fixed this! It appears that the space in my path was causing the issue. The original path was smb://10.1.0.122/Recorded TV. I changed it to smb://10.1.0.122/RTV, and everything started working correctly.
RE: Smart Playlist help - some files missing - ixalthim - 2019-08-27
sigh. nope, it only stays fixed until I restart the software. Then it re-scans, and some of the shows disappear again. so weird!
RE: Smart Playlist help - some files missing - ixalthim - 2019-08-27
OK. I give up. It doesn't appear that this works at all in Kodi. You can't have the same series on 2 separate drives. It just doesn't work.
RE: Smart Playlist help - some files missing - beeswax - 2019-08-27
I'm fairly sure you're hitting the exact same problem I am. As I've discovered, TV Shows don't support more than one path in the Kodi database so when you try to separate them based on path, you only ever see one version.
I also posted a Feature Request for a way around this.
RE: Smart Playlist help - some files missing - ixalthim - 2019-08-27
yep...exact same issue. Thanks.