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[Help] Smart Playlist rules don't work - DoctorBR - 2011-10-08 04:39
Hello everyone!
I need a smart playlist that shows only films greater than or equal to 120 min. XBMC with the code below shows all the movies over 2 hours, but is also showing all the movies less than 1 hour e 40 minutes.
Code:
<? Xml version = "1.0" encoding = "UTF-8" standalone = "yes"?>
<smartplaylist type="movies">
<name> Greater than or equal to 120 min </ name>
<match> one </ match>
<rule field="time" operator="greaterthan"> 119 </ rule>
<rule field="time" operator="is"> 120 </ rule>
<order direction="ascending"> time </ order>
</ smartplaylist>I'm using XBMC Pre-11 (Git-20110902-64DBB08) with Confluence.
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks in advance to anyone who can help.
PASTBIN
- clubwerks - 2011-10-08 05:39
Is time the right field? I thought XBMC used duration or some such thing. When Ember makes nfos for my movies, the duration is always set in seconds.
- DoctorBR - 2011-10-08 06:13
clubwerks Wrote:Is time the right field? I thought XBMC used duration or some such thing. When Ember makes nfos for my movies, the duration is always set in seconds.
Yes! The only rule field that allows me to filter by duration is the "time".
I'm using the version of Ember from that link and for me the nfos files are created in the form of minutes. But do not think that's the problem, as I have created smart playlist that work perfectly, as the code below:
] <? xml version = "1.0" encoding = "UTF-8" standalone = "yes"?>
<smartplaylist type="movies">
<name> Less than or equal to 100 min </ name>
<match> one </ match>
<rule field="time" operator="greaterthan"> 00:45 </ rule>
<rule field="time" operator="lessthan"> 01:40 </ rule>
<rule field="time" operator="is"> 01:40 </ rule>
<order direction="ascending"> time </ order>
</ smartplaylist>
Do you have another suggestion?
By the way, thanks for the help.
- rocketpants - 2011-10-08 06:43
the smart playlist looks fine. But I've just tried to do similar and also get a bunch of movies that do not fit the criteria. It also isn't sorted correctly.
Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
<smartplaylist type="movies">
<name>duration</name>
<match>all</match>
<rule field="time" operator="greaterthan">149</rule>
<order direction="ascending">time</order>
</smartplaylist>If I change the duration to seconds - something like
Code:
<rule field="time" operator="greaterthan">12000</rule>Also tried changing to
Code:
<rule field="time" operator="greaterthan">149 min</rule>EDIT: Also tried changing the filed to durationinseconds as per the nfo files - nothing either
Using Dharma with Transparency
Its got me stumped
- >>X<< - 2011-10-08 19:11
Smart playlist expects hours and minutes so you want 02:00 for 120 min seems obvious but its easy to get mixed up
If you want to show movies equal and above 120 min the below seems to work however I didn't go through my whole movie collection and it does list those equal to 120
I've done it up to 3 hours (180 min) so if you have any movies over the 3 hour mark your need to change that value
Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
<smartplaylist type="movies">
<name>Greater than or equal to 120 min</name>
<match>all</match>
<rule field="time" operator="greaterthan">01:59</rule>
<rule field="time" operator="lessthan">03:00</rule>
</smartplaylist>If you wanted a playlist for everything below 120 min you can use a playlist that works off the playlist above
Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
<smartplaylist type="movies">
<name>Less Than 120 min</name>
<match>all</match>
<rule field="playlist" operator="isnot">Greater than or equal to 120 min</rule>
</smartplaylist>- clubwerks - 2011-10-08 19:49
Cool!
- DoctorBR - 2011-10-09 01:29
>>X<< Wrote:Smart playlist expects hours and minutes so you want 02:00 for 120 min seems obvious but its easy to get mixed up
If you want to show movies equal and above 120 min the below seems to work ...
Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
<smartplaylist type="movies">
<name>Greater than or equal to 120 min</name>
<match>[b]all[/b]</match>
<rule field="time" operator="greaterthan">01:59</rule>
<rule field="time" operator="lessthan">03:00</rule>
</smartplaylist>
I used the code you suggested and it worked!
I created several other smart playlists based on your model and all worked.
I found some things about playlists that also helped a lot:
Quote:<match> tag indicates how the <rule> tags should be matched.Thanks to everyone who responded and tried to help.
If <match>all</match> then only songs which satisfy all the <rule>'s will be included.
If <match>one</match> is specified, then songs that satisfy any one (or more) of the <rule>'s will be included.
- >>X<< - 2011-10-09 14:03
Forgot to mention you can set the playlist order to duration as well if you haven't noticed already either descending or ascending longest first to shortest last or vice versa
Glad it worked for you
- DoctorBR - 2011-10-09 18:43
>>X<< Wrote:Forgot to mention you can set the playlist order to duration as well if you haven't noticed already either descending or ascending longest first to shortest last or vice versa
Glad it worked for you
I'm already using the order direction in my Smart Playlist. See:
<? xml version = "1.0" encoding = "UTF-8" standalone = "yes"?>
<smartplaylist type="movies">
<name> 2h01min to 2h15min </ name>
<match>all</ match>
<rule field="time" operator="greaterthan"> 02:00 </ rule>
<rule field="time" operator="lessthan"> 02:16 </ rule>
<order direction="ascending"> time </ order>
</ smartplaylist>
Thanks again.
- >>X<< - 2011-10-09 18:51
Think I need to get down the opticians its in the first post as well
