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Common Use Cases

Here are some popular playlist and collection types you can create:

TV Shows & Movies

Continue Watching

  • Next Unwatched = True
  • Shows next episodes to watch for each series

Family Continue Watching (Multi-User)

  • Next Unwatched = True (no user selected - uses each playlist user's data)
  • Users: Select multiple family members
  • Each family member gets their own personalized "Continue Watching" playlist showing their next unwatched episodes
  • Auto-refreshes when any family member watches an episode

Family Movie Night

  • Next Unwatched = True AND Parental Rating = "PG" or "G"

Unwatched Action Movies

  • Playback Status = Unplayed AND Genre contains "Action"

Continue Watching (In Progress)

  • Playback Status = In Progress
  • Shows all movies and episodes that have been started but not finished
  • Perfect for picking up where you left off

Recent Additions

  • Date Created newer than "2 weeks"

Holiday Classics

  • Tags contain "Christmas" AND Production Year before "2000"

Complete Franchise Collection

  • Collections contains "Movie Franchise" (includes all movies in the franchise)
  • Note: For Playlists, this fetches all media items from within the collection. For Collections, you can optionally enable "Include collection only" to create a meta-collection that contains the collection object itself

Meta-Collection (Collection of Collections)

  • Collections is in "Marvel;DC;Star Wars" with "Include collection only" enabled
  • List Type: Collection
  • Note: When "Include collection only" is enabled, your selected media types are ignored, and the collection will contain the actual collection objects rather than the media items within them
  • Creates a single collection that organizes multiple collections together (e.g., a "Superhero Universes" collection containing your Marvel, DC, and other superhero collections)
  • Important: The smart collection will never include itself in the results, even if its name matches the rule. So you can safely name your meta-collection "Superhero Universes" and use rules that match "Marvel" without worrying about it including itself

Unplayed Sitcom Episodes

  • Tags contains "Sitcom" (with parent series tags enabled) AND Playback Status = Unplayed

Music

Workout Mix

  • Genre contains "Electronic" OR "Rock" AND Max Playtime 45 minutes

Discover New Music

  • Play Count = 0 AND Date Created newer than "1 month"

Top Rated Favorites

  • Is Favorite = True AND Community Rating greater than 8

Rediscover Music

  • Last Played older than 6 months

Family Favorites Playlist (Multi-User)

  • Is Favorite = True (no user selected - uses each playlist user's data)
  • Users: Select multiple family members (e.g., "Mom", "Dad", "Alice", "Bob")
  • Each family member gets their own personalized playlist showing their favorites
  • Auto-refreshes when any family member marks/unmarks items as favorites

Home Videos & Photos

Recent Family Memories

  • Date Created newer than "3 months" (both videos and photos)

Vacation Videos Only

  • Tags contain "Vacation" (select Home Videos media type)

Photo Slideshow

  • Production Year = 2024 (select Home Photos media type)

Birthday Memories

  • File Name contains "birthday" OR Tags contain "Birthday"

Collections

Collections are great for organizing related content that you want to browse together:

Action Movie Collection

  • Genre contains "Action"
  • Media Type: Movie
  • List Type: Collection
  • Creates a collection that groups all action movies together for easy browsing

Holiday Collection

  • Tags contain "Christmas" OR "Holiday"
  • List Type: Collection
  • Groups all holiday-themed content (movies, TV shows, music) into one collection

Director's Collection

  • People contains "Christopher Nolan" (Director role)
  • List Type: Collection
  • Creates a collection of all movies by a specific director