Problems and Issues

Hi all,

My apologies ahead of time if this turns out to not be AN's fault or issue or only partially so but I have to start somewhere.

I use AN as you can tell and it is excellent. However I've been tearing my hair out with a number of issues. I freely accept this may well be PEBCAK but I've searched and tried all I can to no avail. Anything anyone can do to help or suggest would be greatly appreciated.

Problem 1 - Smart Lists
The smart lists work fine in the sense that they filter what I would expect. The problem with them is two fold.

1. If a smart list contains a directory with more than one film in (e.g Harry Potter/Harry Potter 1....Harry Potter 2....HP3 etc.) then the Smart List doesn't allow me to assign a Set Cover. In fact Smart Lists dont see or recognise Set's at all. Why? How do I get Set's to show in a Smart List?
2. Smart Lists seem to ignore sort order (as does Frodo it seems, more on that later) so when I go into a subdirectory such as Harry Potter the films are not in the right order even if I set it to "Date" as the date in this instance refers to the filename date, not the film release date.

Problem 2 - Submenu's
I don't want to use "Video" as a menu on my main page as it's very confusing for people who don't understand it. However it seems it's the only way to actually edit a smart list in GUI without resorting to text file editing. Theres no way I could see to add the Custom Playist menu item without adding the "default" Movies submenu.

Problem 3 - Folder, File and Season Thumbnails
I have a fairly obvious approach to TV series. Series Name > Season n > Episode. After a huge amount of experimenting to figure out why season folder thumbnails were not showing I worked out the ONLY file out of about 10 I tried that would definitely work was "poster.jpg". Why is this? In Frodo, what are the exact requirements for location and thumbnails for a

• Series Name Folder
• Season Folder
• Episode
  

The wiki and the forums seem to have a huge number of variations and it's all changed in recent versions. I don't believe the wiki is accurate (or I didn't read it right of course).

Problem 4 - Folder View
If I change the viewtype from Tripanel to List in one submenu, it changes that view for ALL submenu views at the same level. So if I have <Series 1>/<Season 1>/<Episode N> and <Series 2>/<Season 1>/<Episode N> and I go and change the setting from List to Tripanel in the Series 1 Episode level, Series 2 Episode view will also get changed. This doesn't seem to be consistent though.

Those are my main problems at the moment and as mentioned, any help with them would be gratefully accepted

Thanks

G