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BigK
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I'm trying (and failing!) to create a smart music playlist that opens my FLAC songs, grouping by album.
The first bit was very straight forward, however, I can't workout how to group by album.
I had hoped that I could use the type "Albums" then a rule where "Songs" endswith "FLAC", however " Songs" isn't an option. I then thought that I could create the playlist at type "Songs", then refer to that playlist from type " Album", but that just kills Kodi.
I wondered if virtual folders would help, but couldn't find much explaining this option.
Any advice welcome. Using version 14.2
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BigK
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Any suggestions would be very welcome.
Thanks
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BigK
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Thanks for the suggestions. The ordering is available, but still only at track level, rather than album.
Will take a look at the wiki, and update here with the outcome.
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BigK
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Sadly, I'm no further on. Really thought I'd be able to get this to work, but I can't. I've tried calling the "flac songs" playlist, from an album playlist, but this just crashes Kodi. Defeated.
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If I'm understanding correctly that you're wanting to create a single music playlist for all your FLAC songs and also grouped by Album Artist within the same playlist, then you might want to try this config:-
Set your playlist type to 'Songs'
Create a new rule: 'Where the file ends with 'FLAC''
Unfortunately, I only have a few FLAC albums (5 Artists in totals) to test fully, but certainly this config did create a single music playlist of all my FLAC songs, grouped by Album Artist, with the album tracks in the correct order.
But like I said, I'm not exactly sure if this is what you are trying achieve.
Good luck
Cheers
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BigK
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Thanks for the suggestion. Sorry it's taken me a (VERY) long time to reply. It's the grouping I want most. What you described selects files perfectly. But the player lists as tracks. What i want is a collection of albums that meet the criteria. Then click on am album to play/show the tracks.
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There is no such sort/grouping available for a songs playlist AFAIK, although sorting songs by album-track does make sense as something useful to add. How about creating an album playlist? That can be sorted by album titile, and the songs will appear using the current song view sort order (I think).