iEye Captain Icon    Playlists with EyeTV 2.x

If you have EyeTV 2, the ideal way to work is not to use iEye Captain for playlist changes, but rather to use the very handy “Add to Playlist” popup menu in EyeTV’s Info window for the schedules you set up. This automatically adds recordings to a certain playlist after they have recorded, and saves adding them later.

Knowing this, iEye Captain’s playlists are set up to be a “slave” to EyeTV’s playlists. You can choose at any time to import EyeTV’s playlists (Tools menu), and they will completely over-write any changes you have made in iEye Captain.

SMART PLAYLISTS: If you have more than one recording or schedule with the same name (like recordings of a repeating schedule), you only need to add one into your playlist… If you then hit the “Smart” checkbox for that playlist, iEye Captain will automatically find all other items with the same name and add them to the found set.

Auto-Smart turns the “Smart” checkbox on by default when you import your playlists from EyeTV 2.  You’ll see the difference right away---  your schedules with the same name will appear, even though EyeTV 2 doesn’t allow you to group schedules in playlists.

AUTO-PLAYLIST: The best way to work with EyeTV 2 is with the “Auto-Playlist” feature (Tools menu). When this is enabled, iEye Captain will automatically sense if any changes have been made to EyeTV’s playlists (even re-ordering them), and will seamlessly import them. It is suggested that you enable both this and “Auto-Smart,” and make all your playlist changes in EyeTV.