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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

Try this:

Code:

@echo OFF
@setlocal ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION
set fileName=settings2.xml

if exist %fileName%.tmp del /F /Q %fileName%.tmp

for /F "delims=" %%G in (%fileName%) do (
    set LINE=%%G
    if not "!LINE!" == "!LINE:ForceChannelReset=!" (
        set LINE=!LINE:False=True!
    )
    >> "%fileName%.tmp" echo !LINE!
)

del /F /Q %fileName%
ren %fileName%.tmp %fileName%

@endlocal

worked great, noticed it was set to settings2.xml had to change that to settings.xml (I just figured it out with autohotkey as well but i'll stick with batch file) heres the fixed version in case someone else wants to use it

Code:

@echo OFF
@setlocal ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION
set fileName=settings.xml

if exist %fileName%.tmp del /F /Q %fileName%.tmp

for /F "delims=" %%G in (%fileName%) do (
    set LINE=%%G
    if not "!LINE!" == "!LINE:ForceChannelReset=!" (
        set LINE=!LINE:False=True!
    )
    >> "%fileName%.tmp" echo !LINE!
)

del /F /Q %fileName%
ren %fileName%.tmp %fileName%

@endlocal

Thanks for the help