2016-03-24, 17:12
The problem I find with party mode hence why I don't use it is that songs are removed once played so it's not possible to skip back to one of the previously played tracks if say you stumble on a old favourite.
(2016-03-24, 10:22)DaveBlake Wrote: So again I ask is it reasonable to limit the number of songs that auto play next puts on the current play list?
(2016-03-24, 10:22)DaveBlake Wrote:(2016-03-23, 21:52)NeroBoron Wrote: Usually I select a song from "all songs" because I want to hear this song now and then some random songs of my library. When I want to listen to another specific song during playback I ssearch and select it in "all songs" again.
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I only use the other views when I want to listen to a specific genre/artist/album. Which only happens in 5% of the cases.
So you want to hear more than the one song you select, but other than the first selected one you don't care what is played? I would never have thought of that!
(2016-03-23, 21:52)NeroBoron Wrote: I can canntell you how I use it:
Usually I select a song from "all songs" because I want to hear this song now and then some random songs of my library. When I want to listen to another specific song during playback I ssearch and select it in "all songs" again.
Never used party mode or something like that. Also searching the current playlist feels kinda pain in the ass because it is shuffled. So I use the same all songs view. BTW selecting another song during that playback clears the playlist and adds everything again. Not a problem but as mentioned earlier I guess the player could just jump to that song in my playlist again.
I also now there is the queue option, but it doesn't work correctly on shuffle if I remember correctly.
I only use the other views when I want to listen to a specific genre/artist/album. Which only happens in 5% of the cases.
(2015-01-05, 00:43)Starscream Wrote: thanks for all!I have 125k songs in my Kodi library running on a QNAP x86 server with 2Gb RAM. I never had any problems like you describe with exception of the time Kodi use to populate the complete list of every single song (which I never do, cause it's really no point in doing that). But how is your library organised? If you have 40k songs just thrown into a single folder, I can understand that Kodi must spend time finding its way every time you instruct it to do something. Is that the case ?
Quote:... adding songs to the playlist takes forever.
(2016-03-24, 17:12)jjd-uk Wrote: The problem I find with party mode hence why I don't use it is that songs are removed once played so it's not possible to skip back to one of the previously played tracks if say you stumble on a old favourite.
(2016-10-16, 02:09)HomerJau Wrote: tkgafs: If you have a iOS device the the Kodi Music Remote app allows you to go back a play songs already played
(2017-04-19, 20:09)ToddSexington Wrote: I have been struggling with the same issue....By "shits the bed" I guess you mean something unwanted and messy, but honestly a less poetic and more precise description of what happens would be more useful.
...kodi shits the bed almost every time I try and do an operation against the whole collection. Tried party mode, shit the bed again, I'm running out of options. Why is kodi so completely shitty at a large collection, or am I missing something?
Quote:Grumbling aside, I'm all ears for any tips on how to be able to simply play my entire collection at random without kodi totally dying every time.What you want is "party mode", it will do exactly what you ask. Search for that, there are plenty of posts that describe it.
Quote:This seemed to be no problem on winamp or various PC programs...if kodi is supposed to be such an awesome media player, how come it isn't set up to incrementally handle these large operations? Couldn't the queuing and playing be broken into manageable pieces so that it can at least start to play through the collection while it does whatever processing it needs to in the background?Yes it could, but it requires some fundamental design changes that no volunteer has had the time, skills or interest to undertake yet. Users that want to queue their entire music collection, like they do on Winamp, find it a terrible flaw. On the other hand many users with large music collections are happy to select smaller subsets. I for one would never want to see a list of 130000 songs, it would be useless for me.
Quote:Hoping the plex addon will obviate this crippling limitation.I don't think so. Try party mode, or as others have said use filtering by genre, artist or other smart playlist rules to select smaller subsets of your music.