[jtucker1972]

Hi again jtucker1972,

So if I understand you correctly, From your last paragraph, referring to my question of a playlist with 50 shows (each a smartplaylist with watched at 0) and <limit> set to 25, The first time TVtime loops through this playlist of 50 shows, it will grab the first unwatched episode from the first 25 TV shows? When those 25 show episodes are all watched and depleted, TVTime will fire off again and recreate this channel. Now, will it again loop through the first 25 playlists for the next unwatched episode, or will it start at playlist number 26 (Where it left off upon initial channel creation) and loop through playlist 26 through 50?
I am getting the impression that in order to include all tv shows that may be in a playlist that is larger than what the <limit> is set to, I would need to select "random" rather than "none", because with "none" selected TVtime only loops through the included playlist from 1 to <limit> and any shows after the <limit> is reached will never be included in the channel. Is this correct?
I guess the way to get around that, is to set the <limit> parameter to the exact number of smartplaylist in any given channel when "none" is selected. So for instance, I have a smart playlist of episodes that has 68 TV show smartplaylist within it, I would need to set the <limit> to 68 so that each time it creates the channel, all 68 TV show playlist would be included? Otherwise, if <limit> was set to 50, then smart playlist 51 through 68 would never be used in channel creation?
Thanks for your help,
Mark

Not quite.

If you have 50 tv shows and the mixed playlist has a limit of 50, then it would have 1 episode from each show in it. Each time it was recreated it would get the next unwatched episode for each tv show. If you have 50 tv shows and only a 50 limit on the mixed playlist, you might as well set the limit to 1 for each of the tvshow playlists to speed up the time it takes to retreive the file lists. A good rule of thumb for setting the tvshow playlist limit is

playlist limit = mixed playlist limit / # of playlists in the mixed playlist

you should always have a higher mixed limit than # of playlists.