[PatK]

Not much to say about this, find it hard to swallow the 'Pink Flamingo's' should be on this list, but them I'm not an esteemed critic. I simplified the listing by excluded the dates, colons, odd foreign characters, and if your movie name doesn't match the title, you'll have to edit your movie title or the listing for it to show up. I didn't use the exclusion rule to exclude wrong dates or sets etc, feel free to edit or improve, and if you do re-post with links, I don't think that pastebin.com will hold stuff beyond 30 days.

Smart Playlists taken from http://www.previewfilms.com.au/index.php...re-you-die I've broken them down into 5 smart playlists each one works individually (tested) and can be put inside one (tested) with this code

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
<smartplaylist type="movies">
    <name>1000 Movies You Must See</name>
    <match>one</match>
    <rule field="playlist" operator="is">
        <value>Alpha - A</value>
    </rule>
    <rule field="playlist" operator="is">
        <value>Alpha - B</value>
    </rule>
    <rule field="playlist" operator="is">
        <value>Alpha - C</value>
    </rule>
    <rule field="playlist" operator="is">
        <value>Alpha - D</value>
    </rule>
    <rule field="playlist" operator="is">
        <value>Alpha - E</value>
    </rule>
    <group>years</group>
    <order direction="descending">year</order>
</smartplaylist>

I'm placing the files on pastebin.com each with individual links

Alpha - A.xsp http://pastebin.com/iM51yybm
Alpha - B.xsp http://pastebin.com/9ZLJvjMp
Alpha - C.xsp http://pastebin.com/FseWmmDE
Alpha - D.xsp http://pastebin.com/H6zv3rLj
Alpha - E.xsp http://pastebin.com/J3CZ0yQx

[Lunatixz]

Very cool thanks @PatK

[BobCratchett]

Very nice indeed, and I'm genuinely surprised how many of these are already in my collection (203 - which I don't think is bad out of 1001!)

It occurs to me, though, that Kodi could do with a nice add-on to share and download playlists such as these just to make it so much easier for everyone to benefit from such great work. Hopefully someone will beat me to writing one but, in case they don't, can I (or whoever is the first to write such) use this as the first playlist for such a service?

[Lunatixz]

Very nice indeed, and I'm genuinely surprised how many of these are already in my collection (203 - which I don't think is bad out of 1001!)

It occurs to me, though, that Kodi could do with a nice add-on to share and download playlists such as these just to make it so much easier for everyone to benefit from such great work. Hopefully someone will beat me to writing one but, in case they don't, can I (or whoever is the first to write such) use this as the first playlist for such a service?

Plugin could be interesting... PseudoTV Live already has a "Community" xsp collection where users can download and submit xsp's via the in-app channel manager.

I'm in the process of renaming the xsp files to match the internal playlist names... but you are more than welcome to use my collection as a source for your plugin.

xsp's are updated regularly and you are more than welcome to add to it

https://github.com/PseudoTV/PseudoTV_Playlists

[BobCratchett]

...but you are more than welcome to use my collection as a source for your plugin.

When I say I hope someone else writes it first I genuinely mean it - I can see so many issues that would need addressing to do such a script to my own standards (from creating a simple process for submitting playlists - presumably to git or similar, to categorising all playlists without having to run scripts on updates (or else writing and triggering such scripts), to dealing with playlists such as this where there is a playlist based on multiple other playlists which need downloading, to even something as simple as dealing with names conflicting with existing playlists - and so on and so on) that I really hope I'm beaten to it Thanks, though - I've taken a quick look and that's a great resource that I've bookmarked, and I'll certainly use it if I end up being the scripter who takes on this challenge

[Lunatixz]

...but you are more than welcome to use my collection as a source for your plugin.

When I say I hope someone else writes it first I genuinely mean it - I can see so many issues that would need addressing to do such a script to my own standards (from creating a simple process for submitting playlists - presumably to git or similar, to categorising all playlists without having to run scripts on updates (or else writing and triggering such scripts), to dealing with playlists such as this where there is a playlist based on multiple other playlists which need downloading, to even something as simple as dealing with names conflicting with existing playlists - and so on and so on) that I really hope I'm beaten to it Thanks, though - I've taken a quick look and that's a great resource that I've bookmarked, and I'll certainly use it if I end up being the scripter who takes on this challenge

LOL! I hear ya... unfortunately the idea is redundant to the functions already available to Kodi and PTVL... All that work to save users from downloading and copying a xsp file manually? nahhh....

[BobCratchett]

And yet it's playlists such as this that make me think it's not such a redundant idea - manually downloading a single xsp file:- sure, that's redundant. However, manually downloading six xsp files and ensuring things such as their names not conflicting with any existing playlists, well that's what scripts are for isn't it

[Lunatixz]

And yet it's playlists such as this that make me think it's not such a redundant idea - manually downloading a single xsp file:- sure, that's redundant. However, manually downloading six xsp files and ensuring things such as their names not conflicting with any existing playlists, well that's what scripts are for isn't it

I agree that a great playlist is a treasure... perhaps its a better idea to build a plugin that can generate smart playlists from preexisting sites lists, such as the example above or wiki has tons of movie lists...

BTW writing something to deal with multi same name files is relatively easy... I literally just whipped one up to rename those github xsp I mentioned before.

[BobCratchett]

Only in-so-far as playlists like this are concerned (which is to say, playlists which show the top x number of movies in a particular category). Sounds far more complex and limited than a download-user-submitted-playlists addon, though - it would need various scrapers for all those sites and it would only do that sort of playlist: you couldn't download a mini-series tv-show playlist as just one example .

I suspect this is the difference of the intention of who creates it, though, and, as I say, I hope its not me!

Edit:- Not saying its particularly difficult, but its one extra element that needs to be coded for. Let's assume that, if someone is automagically downloading this playlist, and they already have an 'Alpha - A.xsp' playlist - the script needs to be able to detect that, save said playlist as something else and modify the playlist that includes it to use the new file name. It's not difficult, per se, it's just one more case - of the many, many edge cases - that needs to be thought about and programmed for.

[shaman_au]

Hi guys,
I really doubt someone will reply as this is an old thread. But I hope someone can help...
I have tried numerous times (trust me, I have) to create a playlist from the files above. You guys make it sound so easy which is what is frustrating me. I have downloaded playlist loader etc and every tutorial makes it looks simple if I want to add live tv links. But i'm missing a step or i'm overlooking something.

Can someone PLEASE guide me into the right direction to make this happen. I would love a playlist of the 1001 movies. Work out how it works and start working on my own lists.
Any reply would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

-Brendan

[nickr]

You need to download the playlist files to userdata (wiki)/playlists/video and that is literally it!

[shaman_au]

OMG, THANKYOU Nickr..for the super quick reply...... it means a lot.
can i just put these actual files:
Alpha - A.xsp http://pastebin.com/iM51yybm
Alpha - B.xsp http://pastebin.com/9ZLJvjMp
Alpha - C.xsp http://pastebin.com/FseWmmDE
Alpha - D.xsp http://pastebin.com/H6zv3rLj
Alpha - E.xsp http://pastebin.com/J3CZ0yQx
into userdata folder or do i have to make somekind of m3u file?

[nickr]

No just download them and name them with a xsp extension.

[shaman_au]

Nickr,

Thank you my new kodi lfriend. That did it. WOW, my world is blown. I have so many ideas as to what I can do with this. THANK YOU VERY MUCH, I can see already there's some tidying up needed, as some of the listings are for the wrong year movie etc.. But wow.

Do you have any further suggestions, ie further reading / resources, ie, special places where I can find more playlist like this?

Thanks again,.
YOU ROCK.
-Brendan

[nickr]

Hey no probs.