[Terry60]

 

Limitation? What is the limitation? That is the way it is done.

It would have been highly convenient to have it so each Menu item can only read from one source, or at least having the option to in the interface setting when making the menu items. Making categorising much easier and straight forward. I've seen so many people ask the same question in slightly different ways over the years. So it's a feature that is really needed and without being rude, yes i would certainly call it a limitation.

Have to agree Rob.
Trying to move from W7 WMC/Media Browser where you just point TV to your TV folder and Movies to your Movie folder and everything just works.
The problem with Kodi for a complete newbie is the apparent existence of separate TV and Movie items which are (under the surface) just sub-sections of a blanket "Videos" and the inability of separating them at the top level without jumping through a series of non-intuitive hoops. That seems to me as an outsider (or just crossed the threshold insider) as a significant architectural shortcoming. The skin makes it simple to create multiple Home menu items, but then they all just go to the same place where a second choice has to be made.
Makes it pointless to have created those menu items when clicking Videos will do exactly the same thing.
Been trying for days to master smart playlists to shortcut the two-step menu problem but haven't yet succeeded in making it work.
I may be a Kodi newbie, but I began over half a century ago as a Sys Prog for IBM, spent a career solving other people's software problems, retired and spent the last decade solving OPs Windows problems in another forum where I'm a 5 figure post Mod, so I'm not quite as dumb as trying to customize Kodi makes me feel.