[RockDawg]

I am running the nightlies and I've successfully set up pathsubstitution to use the Thumbnails folder on my central server in place of the default lolcation. I would like to do the same with my playlists, but I can't seem to get it to work. I've tried:

Code:

<pathsubstitution>
    <substitute>
        <from>special://videoplaylists</from>
        <to>smb://192.168.1.2/xbmc_stuff/playlists/video/</to>
    </substitute>
</pathsubstitution>

and

Code:

<pathsubstitution>
    <substitute>
        <from>special://masterprofile/videoplaylists</from>
        <to>smb://192.168.1.2/xbmc_stuff/playlists/video/</to>
    </substitute>
</pathsubstitution>

I thought I read somewhere that <pathsubstitution> could be used for any of the special:\\ paths. Am I doing something wrong or is it not possible?

[Martijn]

Should be:

Code:

<from>special://masterprofile/Playlists</from>
<from>special://masterprofile/Playlists/Video</from>
<from>special://masterprofile/Playlists/Music</from>
<from>special://masterprofile/Playlists/Mixed</from>

Just like the folder structure in userdata

[RockDawg]

I'm pretty sure I tried that too, but I'll double-check when I get home from work. But I thought:

special://videoplaylists = special://masterprofile/playlists/video

[Martijn]

Can't confirm that.
I do use
<from>special://masterprofile/Playlists</from>
and it works.

Maybe specify the profile?
special://masterprofile/videoplaylists

[RockDawg]

I don't get it. Neither of your suggestions work for me either. WTF?

[RockDawg]

Nevermind. It looks like the problem is with my build. I'll report back once I have it solved.

[newphreak]

For all you other users out there:

Code:

    <substitute>
      <from>special://masterprofile/playlists/video</from>
      <to>smb://192.168.1.143/playlists/</to>
    </substitute>

is the appropriate way of doing this. And it works

[RockDawg]

My problem turned out to be that I was using two <pathsubstitution> entries. One for my thumbnails and one for my playlists. They should have been two separate <substitute> entries nested under a single <pathsubstitution>. After changing that it works fine.

My final entry that works is:

Code:

<pathsubstitution>
        <substitute>
        <from>special://masterprofile/Thumbnails</from>
        <to>smb://192.168.1.20/xbmc_stuff/Thumbnails/</to>
        </substitute>
        <substitute>
        <from>special://masterprofile/playlists/</from>
        <to>smb://192.168.1.20/xbmc_stuff/playlists/</to>
        </substitute>
    </pathsubstitution>

That shares all my playlists, not just the video. Thanks everyone for you help. Especially newphreak as he ultimately figured out my problem in another thread.

[BikerDude]

hello all 

i do not know about such things and i tried based on my interpretation of the above and i get
<advancedsettings>
 <pathsubstitution>
  <substitute>
          <from>special://c:\user\uncle\appdata\roaming\kodi\userdata\playlists/music</from>
      <to>smb://z:/</to>
  </substitute>
 </pathsubstitution>


z is my mapped drive pointing to my music db 

I changed the "USER name to william on the htpc and that also does not work. What is wrong with my solution


Thank you in advance for your help
</advancedsettings>