Smart playlist > Asian movies group by country
#1
How can i setup Smart playlist to show

-Asian movies group by country


I tried a sample but it showing other countries that are not asian as well.
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#2
So what does your Smart playlists (wiki) look like and what additional countries are you getting?
FTW: is True if the field matches the parameter exactly
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#3
(2016-02-07, 18:54)PatK Wrote: So what does your Smart playlists (wiki) look like and what additional countries are you getting?
FTW: is True if the field matches the parameter exactly



If I add group by countries, it shows other countries in the group list
-USA
-UK
-France
-Germany
-Spain etc..

Here's my current playlist, with just two asian countries
-china
-japan

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
<smartplaylist type="movies">
<name>Movies - Asian</name>
<match>one</match>
<rule field="country" operator="is">
<value>Japan</value>
</rule>
<rule field="country" operator="is">
<value>China</value>
</rule>
<group>countries</group>
</smartplaylist>


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Can you paste an example of how you would do it?
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#4
Your playlist looks fine, and it should be picking out the two rules from your collection. I guess the issue becomes the listings in the meta-data base for multiple countries, and you'll get a China / U.S.A. / Hong Kong picked out of the group. You'll either have to edit the tag in the .nfo for one country and re-scan locally. Or consider another rule/operator to further differentiate. I was hoping the the '/' slash between might be used as NOT operator, but I was unsuccessful. OTH using the rule Country 'is not' U.S.A for each country you don't want in the list (ten tops) and must meet all the rules eliminates all but China, Do one for Japan the same way and tie both together in another smart-playlist and voila.

If I was to do this, I would probably create individual folders for each country and the use the 'path' as part of the rule.
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#5
(2016-02-08, 04:20)PatK Wrote: Your playlist looks fine, and it should be picking out the two rules from your collection. I guess the issue becomes the listings in the meta-data base for multiple countries, and you'll get a China / U.S.A. / Hong Kong picked out of the group. You'll either have to edit the tag in the .nfo for one country and re-scan locally. Or consider another rule/operator to further differentiate. I was hoping the the '/' slash between might be used as NOT operator, but I was unsuccessful. OTH using the rule Country 'is not' U.S.A for each country you don't want in the list (ten tops) and must meet all the rules eliminates all but China, Do one for Japan the same way and tie both together in another smart-playlist and voila.

If I was to do this, I would probably create individual folders for each country and the use the 'path' as part of the rule.

Some good ideas here.

Yeah all my info are locally scanned with Ember media manager etc..

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edit the tag in the .nfo probably not a good idea as it involves a lot of work.
Also it changes the FACTS about the Movie.

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-If I was to do this, I would probably create individual folders for each country and the use the 'path' as part of the rule.

Can u post a sample of this.

I think the problem is it still shows USA with this method...

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I think the reason for this problem is the cos
the movie contains countries in the tags that includes both
e.g.
-Japan
-USA

So once I group by country it shows the USA as a group.

So it will end up with movies not considered true Asian movies.
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#6
I was simply pointing out that creating physically a folder for the target, then using a path rule they all show... I manually exclude the listing by not including in that folder.

Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
<smartplaylist type="movies">
    <name>Pixar</name>
    <match>one</match>
    <rule field="path" operator="contains">Pixar</rule>
    <rule field="studio" operator="contains">Pixar</rule>
</smartplaylist>

My second suggestion would seem to work. The Country 'is not' rule is placed for each country you do not want in the list.... e.g. will eliminate China / U.S.A. or whatever country you don't want, yet include just China. You make a smart playlist for each (or combinations) country you want to collect, then tie them together with a master smart playlist. Although in this effort it might be easier to just use Kodi Tags.

This pulls only the country 'China' from the list, although in yours you may have to add more exclusions.

Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
<smartplaylist type="movies">
    <name>China - Asian</name>
    <match>all</match>
    <rule field="country" operator="is">
        <value>China</value>
    </rule>
    <rule field="country" operator="isnot">
        <value>France</value>
    </rule>
    <rule field="country" operator="isnot">
        <value>USA</value>
    </rule>
    <rule field="country" operator="isnot">
        <value>Canada</value>
    </rule>
    <rule field="country" operator="isnot">
        <value>Japan</value>
    </rule>
    <rule field="country" operator="isnot">
        <value>Hong Kong</value>
    </rule>
    <rule field="country" operator="isnot">
        <value>Tiawan</value>
    </rule>
    <rule field="country" operator="isnot">
        <value>Korea</value>
    </rule>
    <rule field="country" operator="isnot">
        <value>Singapore</value>
    </rule>
    <rule field="country" operator="isnot">
        <value>South Korea</value>
    </rule>
</smartplaylist>
You would make another one for Japan etc... and then use a Master Smart Playlist to import the country playlists. Not a lot of effort with cut&paste editors.
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#7
(2016-02-08, 17:18)PatK Wrote: I was simply pointing out that creating physically a folder for the target, then using a path rule they all show... I manually exclude the listing by not including in that folder.

Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
<smartplaylist type="movies">
    <name>Pixar</name>
    <match>one</match>
    <rule field="path" operator="contains">Pixar</rule>
    <rule field="studio" operator="contains">Pixar</rule>
</smartplaylist>

My second suggestion would seem to work. The Country 'is not' rule is placed for each country you do not want in the list.... e.g. will eliminate China / U.S.A. or whatever country you don't want, yet include just China. You make a smart playlist for each (or combinations) country you want to collect, then tie them together with a master smart playlist. Although in this effort it might be easier to just use Kodi Tags.

This pulls only the country 'China' from the list, although in yours you may have to add more exclusions.

Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
<smartplaylist type="movies">
    <name>China - Asian</name>
    <match>all</match>
    <rule field="country" operator="is">
        <value>China</value>
    </rule>
    <rule field="country" operator="isnot">
        <value>France</value>
    </rule>
    <rule field="country" operator="isnot">
        <value>USA</value>
    </rule>
    <rule field="country" operator="isnot">
        <value>Canada</value>
    </rule>
    <rule field="country" operator="isnot">
        <value>Japan</value>
    </rule>
    <rule field="country" operator="isnot">
        <value>Hong Kong</value>
    </rule>
    <rule field="country" operator="isnot">
        <value>Tiawan</value>
    </rule>
    <rule field="country" operator="isnot">
        <value>Korea</value>
    </rule>
    <rule field="country" operator="isnot">
        <value>Singapore</value>
    </rule>
    <rule field="country" operator="isnot">
        <value>South Korea</value>
    </rule>
</smartplaylist>
You would make another one for Japan etc... and then use a Master Smart Playlist to import the country playlists. Not a lot of effort with cut&paste editors.

is there a way to hide all those separate playlists from Kodi?
Else it would cluttered with so many playlists
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#8
Smart playlists are genteelly kept in Roaming\Kodi\userdata\playlists\video but don't have to be if you're calling them with a path. I personally never look at them after I've either linked them in favourites or linked them in someway. Check out Add-on:Super Favourites (wiki) it may tip this conversation 180
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