[jmarshall]

Thanks for all your contributions - I've pretty much nailed down what we require as far as the backend goes with respect to grouping and so on.

The user interface is now my current focus.

Many of you don't seem aware that most of the stuff you're asking for can already be done by the smartplaylist system.

Clearly, it's non-optimal as far as the interface of it goes, though I suspect the biggest problem is the fact that you have to go into playlists in order to select or generate one.

I'd encourage everyone to go and give them a go, and see what you like and what you don't like about the process required to set them up and so on.

My current thoughts is that they'll be broken down into two:

1. A simplified process that can be used for "on the fly" filters that can apply to any 'title' based listing (eg "show watched only", or "show action or thriller films only"), to replace the current "watched/unwatched" toggle.
2. A general "Filtered listing" node that essentially just places a predefined smartplaylist at some point in the video library heirarchy. Similar to how "Recently added movies" is placed for instance.

Cheers,
Jonathan