[pecinko]

Hi all,
2. Could this be done better in an alternate way (eg by enabling a "filter" on one or more genres)?

I discovered smartplaylists only recently, as I never wanted a playlist of movies but rather a filter that would allow me to sort by other criteria then default ones (genre, year, actor...) so frankly - never tried it with movies

In my use case, I need to

1. filter/separate content for adults a kids (using profiles)
2. categorize adult content to documentaries, HD, home videos and movies
3. categorize kids content to educational, movies for older, movies younger one

I found that smartplaylists have powerfull metadata filtering capabilities, so this can be done without problem. As metadata criteria wasn't always sufficient, I made separate folders for content (/documentaries, /home_vids) and filtered content using smartplaylist PATH query.

Only downside in my opinion is that you have to navigate to playlists in order to use it, which is not so intuitive for the rest of the family.

It would be helpful if you could have a choice of saving results as either smartplaylist or 'smartfilter' (along with existing genres, year... filters).

Before using smartplaylists I had to use files and library view in order to separate content, but rest of the family never got used to it.