2011-02-09, 19:23
branlr Wrote:Unfortunately, this can't be the case. For example, I have an Animation category-- I have MANY cartoons in my collection, and when I look at the animation genre in xbmc there are many many shows in there--yet it will show batman the animated series for 2 days straight (awesome! but not not all the time lol) followed by 2 days of futurama... not laws of averages, though I certainly get your reasoning.....
my playlists look like this...
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
<smartplaylist type="tvshows">
<name>Children TV</name>
<match>all</match>
<rule field="genre" operator="is">Children</rule>
<limit>100</limit>
<order direction="ascending">random</order>
</smartplaylist>
Any thoughts?
It seems the default behaviour of the XBMC playlist is to force a sort order, so the shows after being randomized are being sorted which is causing the issue.
Now, if you create a mixed playlist and add the get-100-children-episodes.xsp from my PseudoTV-Channel-Kit, and set the order to random, then Jason's script should truly randomize the shows. In Jason't current code, it should randomize the mixed playlist by default.
I think I am going to have all my channels as mixed playlists.