At the moment I have a number of folders, e.g. Action, Crime, Drama, etc, and a playlist for each folder. When I put the movie in a folder, the smart playlist displays it in the corresponding Movies submenu.
Now I'm wondering if I create a Genre smart playlist, and put all the movies in a single folder, if the smart playlist will then display it in the corresponding Movies submenu. Are there any advantages by doing it that way?
It looks like you have a handle on your library in one way or another. The disadvantages to a huge one folder solution, are the o/s gets bogged down with massive lists instead of how you're handling it with genre folders. Smart playlists works with shortcomings of multiple genre listings in the .nfo turning up the same movies. Nodes can also be used to some advantage should folder listings not be online atm with the added benefit of using icons for each node. It's my preferred method of slicing & dicing my search, linking according to path or the many other choices this feature allows. Kodi see's your entire library as one large flat file listing, and parses from that list using the rules in smart playlists and nodes, so organization of folders might be unnecessary, but helps with user maintenance and os/ fetch.
Using Kodi genre search which is about the same as using a built in smart playlists. I found creating nodes for directors & actors, saving to favourites a quick fast method to break the candy bar down.
https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=373927 I'm sure you can adapt this method to many other ideas.
P.S. might not of mentioned it, but do keep each movie/video in a folder of it's same name & (date)
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Nodes ... that's term I've heard of, but not looked into. Do you have a practical\simple example, or a screenshot so I can see what it does?
Oh, and yes, I do keep each movie in a folder of it's same name & date.
Thank you!
I'll experiment.