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I add a custom genre for my seasonal movies and then have my main movie smart playlist filter out the kids movies and all the seasonal stuff so it doesn't show up in the regular list. I then make smart playlist for Christmas, Halloween and other seasonal stuff.

You can then copy these smart playlist and rename them to the season.xps and swap them in your channel. Your .bat file could copy in your logo and the season list all in one go and you should be set.

ya, last night I tested swapping out the playlist and it only works if i do a "force channel reset" which is closer but I know i can get it fully automated, so now I'm trying to figure out how to use a batch file to edit the settings.xml line

Code:

<setting id="ForceChannelReset" value="false" />

to

Code:

<setting id="ForceChannelReset" value="true" />

so that i don't have to remember to do the reset each time

thanks for all the help

not true... u are looking for instant results! so yes then you need to force reset!! but if you trust time and ptvl to do there thing...it would update or set a advanced rule to update the channel daily weekly..

I rarely waste my time replying with false info

I wasn't trying to to imply that you where wrong, it was my fault when i moved the playlist and tried it and had to do a force channel reset to see the results right away, i just assumed that since i had to do a manual force channel reset that when you swapped your playlist that you where also having to do the force channel reset.

so if i don't do the force channel reset about how long would it take PTVL to do a reset if i leave it set to automatically?
roughly of course, would i be looking at hours, days or weeks b4 it would do it it's self

thanks