[wrk13s]

HI everyone,
i know this has been asked time and time again, but i just can get it to work.
I am running Xbuntu Forodo 12 on my HTPC connected to my NAS with the following folders:
1. Movies
2. TV Shows
3. Anime
4. Vietnamese Movies
5. HK Film

They are all in seperate folders. Using the standard theme i have setup favorites pointing to these NFS shares on my nas and works perfectly, but for the past 3 months i been trying to get the Aeon Nox theme working with custom play lists. I updated the type on each list on the weekend letting index through my whole NAS again to ensure that each folder was updated correctly.

I have tried to follow the following video from CaptainKen is it ? but does not seem to work.



My custom menus do not seem to display anything.
I found another step by step from him using these steps

- Create Playlist
01) Videos
02) Playlists
03) New Smart Playlist
04) Type = Movies (this should be better choice than TV Shows)
05) Name of Playlist = Anime Movies (or whatever you want)
06) New Rule...Add
07) Match Items where = path
08) starts with
09) Browse to your Anime folder
10) Items must match = all of the rules
11) Order by Title ascending
12) Press OK to save

- Assign to desired Main Menu item
01) Settings->Skin->Customizers->Main menu item customizer
02) Highlight unused Custom menu item
03) Up arrow
04) Smart Playlist Manager
05) Select Type = Random Movies
06) Include already watched items? = Yes (choose your preference)
07) Fitness Movies
08) Esc
09) Press Enter on desired unused Custom Main Menu item
10) Disable = false
11) Type = Video Playlist
12) Label = Anime Movies (the name of the Smart Playlist you created)

- Setting the random background artwork
01) Choose background
02) Anime Movies (Random Movies)
03) Set InfoLine
04) Fitness Movies (Random Movies)
05) Backspace


But i still can not get them to work ? Does anyone seem to know what i am doing wrong ?

thanks
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[mikebzh44]

Can you browse your playlist (XBMC -> Videos -> Playlist -> HK Films) ? Movies are displayed ?

No error in LOG file ?

[wrk13s]

Hi mikebzh44, the smart playlist will not display anything. but i create a favorite from the NFS it will show the movies. I would not know where to get the error log.

[Vaikin]

My first guess would be that the videos aren't scanned into the library.

[mikebzh44]

Untill your playlist did not display your movies, it's useless to try to use it in Aeon Nox.

As Vaikin says, your movies are in your library ?

[wrk13s]

Hi guys,
my videos do appear in the default skin under movies and tv shows, and my favourites playlist just not the smart play list. i checked the media type in my libraries and they are set right movies, tv shows, music videos. It look 1 day just to download all the media info.

You think it would be easier to just wipe and start fresh ?

[CaptainKen]

Does the smart playlist work in Confluence?

[wrk13s]

CaptainKen, in Confluence i am not able to.

[CaptainKen]

Then that issue is a problem with the smart playlist, not the skin. Please post the playlist.

[wrk13s]

how do i do that ?

[Vaikin]

You can find it in userdata folder and post the contents of the file(open with notepad) or take a screenshot in xbmc of the edit screen for the playlist and post it here.

[wrk13s]

Hi Vaikin, thanks for that, funny story i dont remember the dam password i setup for xbmc hahaha farout, i think i will just wipe the whole dam thing and re do it.

[wrk13s]

Hi Guys so sorry for the long delay, i been traveling for work. I just wanted to let you all know that the issue has now been solved i rebuilt my whole HTPC with the new frodo 12.2 and successfully have smart playlists working.

[mr.sparkle]

instead of "path is" try "path begins"

[wrk13s]

hi mr sparkle thanks for that. that fixed one of my porblems now just working on solving my vietnames shows and where the heck the rest of 2000 movies went