How do I exclude “Trailer.*” from video library?

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Device: Amazon Fire TV Stick
Kodi version: 17 “Krypton” beta
Data source: SMB, connected to my NAS

My movie folder structure consists of one folder per movie under which I typically have the following files:

  • Movie_Name.avi
  • Trailer.mp4
  • Poster.jpg

I want to exclude all “Trailer.*” files from my library. Following this wiki, I created the following advancedsettings.xml file and placed it in my Fire TV Stick’s “Android/data/org.xbmc.kodi/files/.kodi/userdata/” folder, as per this other wiki.

Code:
<advancedsettings>
    <video>
        <excludefromscan>
            <regexp>^(?i)trailer\..+$</regexp>
        </excludefromscan>
        <excludefromlisting>
            <regexp>^(?i)trailer\..+$</regexp>
        </excludefromlisting>
    </video>
</advancedsettings>

I even tried a more restrictive, but also more straightforward regex that matches exactly the name of my trailer files, including capitalization, all with the same result.

Code:
<advancedsettings>
    <video>
        <excludefromscan>
            <regexp>Trailer\.mp4</regexp>
        </excludefromscan>
        <excludefromlisting>
            <regexp>Trailer\.mp4</regexp>
        </excludefromlisting>
    </video>
</advancedsettings>

However, nothing changes. I have tried all of the following to no avail:

  • Restarting Kodi
  • Rebooting my Fire TV Stick
  • Refreshing my library
  • Cleaning my library
  • Completely removing and readding my library

By the way, whether I have an advancedsettings.xml file or not, the trailer files only show in the main Kodi screen where you see Movies, TV Shows, Music, etc. on the left-side menu and you see sections “Recently added movies”, “Unwatched movies”, etc. If I actually click on Movies to go to the main movie list, the trailers never show, with or without these changes above. You can see that in these screenshots below.

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Any other ideas?