Playlists - Smart and Active

[KevinA]

I have my collection well organised into folders where music, video and photographs have well structured subflobers. All of the files are readily updated into Mezzmo using the scheduled library maintenance at midnight. I also update the library on the fly when I need to.

All files are held in the Mezzmo database and look good. I know want to make use of the playlists to view my video information in different ways.

Is there any way that I can set up a playlist to view Tv series using a hierarchy of Artist (Showname)/Album (Season) but with only files in a certain folder/sybfolder structure?

At the moment if I set this up i get the Movie artists coming up as shownames as it reads the whole database.

In alreality I find that the way Mezzmo deals with TV series is pretty messy. It seems a quick fix has been applied - Artists as Showname / Album as Season

[Paul]

At the moment there's no way to limit contents of an active playlist based on another folder, but this is a planned feature in a future version.

Album is picked up from the folder name for video files, but you can override that using the Online Video Metadata or by manually editing the files. Artists should be read from metadata files, if you have those, otherwise it'll most likely be empty. Do you have any metadata files in the folder where the video is that has artists as the showname?

[KevinA]

Thanks Dennis

There are no metadata files in any TV series for the folder.

When I use the Online Metadata for the Tv series, the Season is placed in the Album which is logical. The Show Name remains in the Title which concerns me as I have all individual episodes (files) renamed by TVRename eg "Flashpoint - S01E09 - Planets Aligned". if I use the Online Metadata I will lose the actual Showname from the Title or put it in to another field

Do you have any suggestions?

[Paul]

Is the show name loaded up correctly from the online metadata search? If it is, then it can replace the title, right? Sorry, I don't think I understand what the problem is - can you please give an example of the before and after, so that I could see what's wrong?

[KevinA]

There is nothing wrong - it is just I am working out what is happening so i can make use of the playlist feature.

At the moment I have favoured keeping the folder structure as that suits me better with TVRename.

[Paul]

Ok, great - if you have well-organized folders, then yes, that makes sense.