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Add "1/2/3/5 items" to smart playlist limits - Moonbase - 2023-01-11
This was originally 22432 (GH issue) but I was redirected here.
I copy-paste the important points here:
When creating/editing smart playlists, one can only limit the results to None/10/25/50/100/250/500/100.
Since manual editing (especially on devices like the FireTV sticks) is not easy for everyone, I’d suggest adding the entries "1 item", "2 items", "3 items" and "5 items" to the "Limit to" list.
Rationale: Often, say for a series evening, one wants to return only 1,2 or 3 items to be watched, say the next unwatched episodes of a series. Or one or two mystery movies.
It would just be great if this could be selected in the UI, and a playlist be created without the need of manually editing it.
An example where this could be useful is Create your own day-by-day "TV program" using smart playlists and virtual folders!
RE: Add "1/2/3/5 items" to smart playlist limits - TimeZone - 2023-03-08
(2023-01-11, 00:09)Moonbase Wrote: When creating/editing smart playlists, one can only limit the results to None/10/25/50/100/250/500/100.
Since manual editing (especially on devices like the FireTV sticks) is not easy for everyone, I’d suggest adding the entries "1 item", "2 items", "3 items" and "5 items" to the "Limit to" list.
I only learnt of this "limitation" yesterday. I too was trying to create a smart playlist to return only the next unwatched episode for a TV show. This playlist was then to be displayed on AndroidTV channels. I had to opt for 10 unwatched episodes.
What made it even more unpleasant for my target goal was that I wanted create a few such playlists for different shows (say 5 shows) then combine the playlists into one bigger playlist. I expected the bigger playlist to have 5 next episodes for 5 TV shows, one unwatched episode per show then display this on the AndroidTV channel.