[phil65]

you can create "basic" music playlists inside xbmc. look in music playlists section.

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On playlists - sort of off topic - but I Googled/searched for info on how to setup. The XBMC wiki page notes that "XBMC has built in powerful playlist editors (both for normal and smart playlists)" - I found where you can create a SMART playlist (which is likely what I want to setup for my purposes) - but where/how do you create a "normal" playlist? I don't see any other "editors" built in. Doesn't look like XBMC supports iTunes playlists...I would like to create some simple playlists for my wife/kids (music)...where can I find a sample file format?

i strongly recommend to use smart playlists, they offer much more features than fixed ones. just look at the filter rules.

Smart Playlists work great for the intended use - I set one up for ALL movies (adding multiple path's and setting the rules to "one or more") and then setup additional smart playlists for each sub-folder. I love the fact that I can set different backgrounds for the Main Menu item as well as each sub-menu item...awesome. My wife is going to LOVE not having to skip past the Barbie and Pokemon movies. Going to play around with TV Shows next.

Still want to learn the format/syntax for a basic playlist though. Can't really think of way to select very specific songs (from a 20k song library) using the smart playlist. My wife and kids have specific songs they want on specific playlists...very rigid. I'll post a separate thread though. Phil has to keep working his magic to put the finished touches on A.N. ....wax on, wax off...

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no, the reset is intended. we implemented this for final release because an update without a reset could cause unexpected problems.

So do we need to do something to save our changes? I've been saving my stash with SmartGit - do I need to do something else to preserve settings before I pull again? Or am I misunderstanding...

tanks

it won´t happen for you again. if you want to backup skin settings, they´re saved in guisettings.xml in userdata folder.