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SMART PLAYLISTS
Smart playlists are generated by setting up specific rules/conditions to define your playlist.
For example, you can define that you want your playlist to contain all movies containing the
“Action” genre, but not “Horror”. This will cause your playlist to be populated by action
movies, but not Action-Horror movies. You can then narrow down your playlist further by
specifying that you only want movies that was released after 2010. You can go as far as you
want, narrowing down your playlist even more by specifying that only movies with 720p or
higher resolution should be added.
What are Smart Playlists?
PseudoTV can use them to create channels, and is exactly what we will be doing. Smart
playlists give us the ability to create precise channels in PseudoTV that plays exactly what
we want. There is a huge selection of fields which you can use to define your rules, and it’s
really easy to set up.
Why are smart playlists so important?
WHAT FIELDS CAN I USE TO CREATE THESE RULES?
Genres, year, studio, rating, plot keywords, MPAA rating, director, actor, path, playcount
and video resolution are just a few examples.
HOW TO CREATE A NEW PLAYLIST:
1) go to the “Videos” tab in XBMC and press RIGHT.
2) Select “Library”.
3) Select “Playlists”
(No “Playlists” option? Press backspace to go up a level or two)
4) Select “New smart playlist…”
Play around with the Playlist editor for a moment,
and you will quickly see what i’m talking about here.
Try to create a playlist with Comedy Movies that are
newer than 2010.
THERE ARE PLAYLISTS INLUDED WITH THIS PDF
For XBMC on Windows, copy them to:
C:\Users\<Your Username>\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\userdata\playlists\video\
For XBMC on OpenELEC, copy them to:
\\OPENELEC\Disk 1\.xbmc\userdata\playlists\video\
