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Again I'm happy to help in anyway I can, to improve the music player in kodi. But likewise my classical collection is tiny in comparison to the other music only a handful of albums.
What I do with them at the moment is to tag them all using mp3tag setting the Album Artist field to be "Classical - Various" so when browsing the library of albums they are all grouped together. (I do similar with Reggae and Christmas albums).
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Just to clarify Scott, we're not talking about playlists per se. We're talking about general navigation. If you just go to an album in the library and start playing it the artwork, track no, etc, will all stay on track 1. Unless, as I think tkgafs is finding, you are using a platform with a mouse, in which case what is shown is whatever the mouse hovers over. I only used a playlist to illustrate the point as the change is more noticeable in various artist compilations (as opposed to anthologies, which are apparently now prohibited).
You may well be correct that this is intended behaviour, which is why we've been seeking answers rather than reporting a bug, but it doesn't seem to make much sense to me in real world usage. I admit to not really understanding the party mode playlist, but doesn't that stop playing what you'd previously chosen and start a new random list.
Anyway, I go back to the point that everyone is on this kick that music should operate the same as video. Well, if that were true then millions would be flocking to the cinema to listen to the latest Katy Perry cd. By the very nature of the fact that when music is playing there is no video occupying the screen we could at least try to get album art, etc, changing in time to the music. However, let me stress again - it's a minor irritation not the end of the world and not something worth people going all North Korean over.
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2015-09-22, 23:19
(This post was last modified: 2015-09-22, 23:30 by scott967.)
There is the music visualization window. You <tab> back and forth from Music Viz to MyMusicNav or MyMusicSongs, or <esc> from those windows back to the home window. Many skins provide fanart or extra fanart as a background on Music viz, or you can run a visualization addon like Vortex. Many skins also run the addon Artist Sldieshow on the Music Viz window, and/or overlay lyrics from cu lrc lyrics addon.
What I understand you want seems like a skin issue.
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So fed up of being talked down to on these forums. Gonna give up on it once and for all.
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Put in a feature request in the feature request forums to "change focus in GUI when next song plays".
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Which if you scroll about you do, but by default it makes far more sense to see the artwork for the currently playing song
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Not when you're in an actual list view it doesn't, at least to me anyway. The visualiser is what you want for that.