[GollyJer]

I just spent about 2 hours setting up Kodi 17 with Emby and customizing the Titan skin. It looks awesome and works great.
One small issue...

My entire menu system is based on Smart Playlists. I separate Kids and Parent TV/Movies, workout videos, and a few other things based on playlists.
This worked perfectly on Kodi 16 with the showhiddenfolders advancedsetting.xml setting. However, with Kodi 17 every empty tv show/folder is visible. This leads to a ton of extra scrolling and cognitive overload in the UI.

Anyone else running into this issue? It seems like a pretty big problem considering the "Show empty TV Series" setting has been moved to the primary interface.

[mozomo]

I was asking the same question here but nobody seemed to be interested.

The solution I am using now is to add this to the smartlist.xsp:

Code:

<rule field="numepisodes" operator="greaterthan">
        <value>0</value>
</rule>

[GollyJer]

Thanks for the workaround mozomo! That works great.
It's strange this hasn't gotten more attention. Maybe not many people use Smart Playlists?

Per your original post (thanks for letting me know) I'll point out again there is a fix for this issue.
videodb: fix smart playlists not honoring "Show empty TV shows" setting.
Sadly it garnered very little attention. It was originally tagged "Krypton" but the tag was removed in October.

I'm not sure how we get more attention on this one.

[mozomo]

I was wondering the same. The only explanation for me is, that almost nobody uses playlists in his menus. Since the new Estuary skin does not offer this feature, maybe most people do not recognize that something is wrong.

Anyway, we have our workaround and as long as it works, that's fine by me - and you I gather

[samedavis]

The solution I am using now is to add this to the smartlist.xsp:

Thanks! This was driving me crazy. New estuary mod skin works well with segregated playlists

[WolvesPhil]

I have had this issue on and off often. Previously I have it fixed it by dropping rescraping my library. However, not ideal.

I have read the link in the above posts but don't fully follow what I need to do?

[PatK]

" The only explanation for me is, that almost nobody uses playlists in his menus " Sad but true, I've been hoping to have enough time to set up this way, nice work round. Sounds like the option to Show or not Show empty TV shows toggle, and Show all items is not working in conjunction? Perhaps a refresh of the Trac ticket might be in order.

[WolvesPhil]

We use smart playlists heavily as do my friends who use Kodi (as I introduced them to it)

My wife and I watch separate shows so we have our own sections on the home screen, i.e both, mine and hers. Works really well except for this week it has started showing empty folders again