[BobCratchett]

i'm trying out the dev version after using Madnox from the time it was in private beta.

things are going well and i've got it all setup. have all the correct add ons. one thing i can't seem to get though that i liked in the beta mad nox is i have a playlist that i want to display bluray/dvd cases for. this playlist should display the latest movies i have added to my library. now, the cases do show up but they are of random movies and nothing close to the latest. before there was a section for smart playlist where you told it how you wanted things to be displayed.

can anyone tell me how i can do this in the dev version? what i'm doing now:

setup the aeon nox main menu
select background - live background video playlist
case - dvd/br

but for some reason the cases that are displayed aren't from my playlist. as i said i know how i could fix this in the past with the smart playlist section how can it be done in dev?

thanks

Yes, the way playlists have worked has changed. Rather than create a playlist, then use the playlist manager to adjust how it displays, now playlists are displayed as defined in the playlist themselves. So if you want to display recent movies in a playlist, you'd edit the playlist to 'Order By' 'Date added'. Give it a limit as well, because the images in the cases are assigned randomly from the items in the playlist (so if there's no limit, the playlist will contain all movies in your library, and the backgrounds will be a random selection of these) - so if you just want the 10 most recent movies, set the limit to 10. And you should have what you're after.

(And reading back what I've just written about the limits/random choice - maybe it wouldn't be a bad idea to add a toggle for whether they're random or not!)