How to create genres based on Folder Names only

[BasalGanglia]

I have my Snes collection organised into folders, which are named after genres I have decided I want them in. For example, Action, Adventure, Flight, RPG etc. I have played around with importing the Snes roms then selecting the 'Auto Generate Child Playlists' option. I like the fact that it creates a folder called Super Nintendo at the top and then creates the Genres nested within. However I would much rather have the Genres listed as the same name as my folders.

I cannot see any option to create the genres based on the folder names when importing. Surely the geniuses that wrote this software would have realised that many people would want their collections added to genres of their own choice?  

Using the 'Auto Generate Playlist' option I unticked everything except 'All Games', so that it would have 'All Games' nested underneath but with no genres. I then tried to right click on this and select 'Add New Playlist'.  This is where I am confused. It lets you give it a name but there is no option to add the files to be added to that Playlist. Only has a path to select a 'Video' file.

Can someone point me in the right direction to do this as surely this must be possible.

Thanks

 

 

 

 

[Retro808]

2 hours ago, BasalGanglia said:

I have my Snes collection organised into folders, which are named after genres I have decided I want them in. For example, Action, Adventure, Flight, RPG etc. I have played around with importing the Snes roms then selecting the 'Auto Generate Child Playlists' option. I like the fact that it creates a folder called Super Nintendo at the top and then creates the Genres nested within. However I would much rather have the Genres listed as the same name as my folders.

I cannot see any option to create the genres based on the folder names when importing.  

No, LB does not make playlists based off a folder name. Honestly, I think this is the first I have seen a user post trying to do it this way. Most (not saying all do this, just most seem to) users typically have roms for a platform all in one folder and then let the software create the playlist based on metadata. 

2 hours ago, BasalGanglia said:

Surely the geniuses that wrote this software would have realised that many people would want their collections added to genres of their own choice?  

Indeed they did. That is why you see LB  can either create a bunch of predetermined child playlists for each system or the user can just manually create a playlist based on multiple requirements of choice. When you make a playlist just tick the box to make it an auto-populating playlist and set that parameters. 

2 hours ago, BasalGanglia said:

Using the 'Auto Generate Playlist' option I unticked everything except 'All Games', so that it would have 'All Games' nested underneath but with no genres. I then tried to right click on this and select 'Add New Playlist'.  This is where I am confused. It lets you give it a name but there is no option to add the files to be added to that Playlist. Only has a path to select a 'Video' file.

 

If you are not checking the box to "Auto-Populate" the palylist you made you just create the playlist then save it. You then go into each platform (or go into all games) and select one or as many games as you want then bulk add them to that playlist. It is not done from within the create new playlist window.