[Choppasmith]

I just discovered a minor problem with the way Media Companion generates NFOs. Unless I'm missing an option somewhere, it doesn't add the actors to individual episode NFOs. That may sound minor, but let me explain. I have a playlist setup based off David Attenborough shows to help me sleep. It's great. I made a normal playlist with just a few of my favorite Planet Earth episodes, but I thought it'd be great to make a Random version with all the David Attenborough shows I have:

Planet Earth
Frozen Planet
Blue Planet
Life
Conquest of the Skies
Galapagos

So I made a smart playlist like this

Episodes

Actor is David Attenborough
Season is not 0
Random

And what's weird is Planet Earth and Galapagos get left out of the list. I tried reloading the list several times with 100 results to make sure it just wasn't bad luck. I even added TV Show is Planet Earth as a rule and it gets me no results.

What makes it weird is that if I change the Smart Playlist from Episodes to TV Shows THEN it's listed. I had no idea what was going on until I checked the NFOs. The series that DID work have the cast in each episode NFO, while Planet Earth and Galapagos didn't. I then remembered that I used Ember Media Manager to scrape some of my TV Shows. So I tried rescraping Planet Earth with Ember and lo and behold! It worked, the cast was added to the NFOs and Kodi would add those episodes to the playlist.

Just a heads up, unless I'm missing some kind of "include cast in episode NFO" option, it seems Smart Playlists won't work properly if you don't have the cast listed in each episode NFOs.