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Is there a way to either play a playlist or view a playlist when it is added to the homemenu?
Some I would like to view and some I would like to automatically play.
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Hi Stoli,
That's great! Now if I want a playlist to just display the contents, where do I need to go to change the playmedia tag to showmedia tag...Home.xml?
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Stoli,
I don't use the normal categories (movie, tv shows) at all. Instead, I have added smart playlists to the home screen to divide my library into user defined categories (documentaries, home movies, music concerts,...etc.). This setup worked perfectly.
After the recent update, my movies smart playlists plays automatically, my tv shows playlist doesn't even open. Needless to say, this simply doesn't work anymore.
I've tried adding the smartlist as favorites but it acts the same way.
Is there any way to revert back to the old behaviour (i.e. just show playlist).
If not, can you please lmk how I can edit the files. I have no experience in coding at all but i can follow instructions.
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I just installed Neon tonight and created Playlists "Movies" and "Kids Movies". I added both to favorites. When I select them from the home menu, it immediately starts playing the first file.
I see your note above about modifying the .xml file, but I don't have the "<!-- etc" line at all. Did you make a change? Or start to? Can I just add that 6th line in and expect it to display correctly?
Thx for this awesome skin!!
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mbbransc,
If you add your playlists to the "Custom Playlist" rather than the favorites home menu items, they will open up rather than play.
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See if I did something incorrectly...
1) went to Movies main menu.
2) create playlist
3) smart playlist is designated by 'PATH'
4) put curser on the new playlist and marked it FAVORITES
5) went to Settings / Skin / Custom Home
6) Custom Favorite 1; designated my 'Movies' favorite
7) Custom Favorite 2; designated my 'Kids Movies' favorite
I didn't add anything to the PLAYLIST section on the Custom Home screen.
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Put them in Custom Playlist 1 and Custom PLaylist 2
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That was it, thx Mark! It's the opposite of how I would expect it to be; playlist would play and favorites would list. Either way, so long as I can get it working!! Looks awesome!!
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For me, setting it as a favorite or a playlist doesn't matter. They always start playing right away. I'm using the latest SVN version.
Stoli, will you be able to add the option to show the playlist or play it. I'd rather not start modifying the .xml file if you're going to add the option anyway.