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Yeah, smart playlists are just that....'smart'. In other words, rather than you sit and find albums or songs you want to listen to, you give a smart playlist a set of rules and Kodi does all the work in finding the content from your library. They are also smart in that if you add or remove content in your library, then any smart playlists that reference that content will automatically update. Although smart playlists work best with a properly tagged library, you can also use sources and file paths to filter with. If your library is not very well tagged, you might be better filtering on just parts of names and using 'contains'. E.G., you could filter albums where the title contains 'xmas'. So you would set up rules that say Title contains Xmas, Title contains 'xmas', Title contains 'Christmas' and match ONE of the rules. So that should give you album titles containing 'Xmas', 'xmas' or 'Christmas' but NOT 'christmas' because its cAse sEnsitive!
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To add to the above.
Smart Playlists are dynamic in that the rules provide filters that are applied to the music database every time you open the playlist, to give you a listing of everything that matches the rules AT THAT TIME. Where this comes in handy is that as you add new music to the database, if any of it matches the smartplaylist rules, then next time you open the playlist the the new music will automatically appear without you having to do a thing.
The listing a smartplaylist gives can also be used to generate a new static playlist. For example you have a house party, you can use a smartplaylist rules to show disco music from the 1970's, so this very quickly gives you a listing of matching music, you can then save it as a static playlist which you can then edit to remove tracks to fine tune the playlist.