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ape-ma
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Whenever I start music playback with Kodi 18.1 it sooner or later switches to the Now Playing screen but that one turns black after a few seconds. How can I disable this? The info shall be displayed as long as music is played.
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Sounds like the screensaver kicking in.
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ape-ma
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I just checked: I configured the Screensaver now to dim the screen only only with a timeout of 5 minutes (2 minutes were originally set). Nevertheless the Now Playing screen turns within seconds to black.
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just in case it is not screensaver related,
hit 'i' on keyboard / 'info' on remote to make it re-appear. it should stay onscreen from then on.
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ape-ma
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Kodi 18.2 RC 1 behavior is still the same
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2019-02-23, 07:38
(This post was last modified: 2019-02-23, 07:39 by jjd-uk.)
Many of us who switch to music full screen have music visualisations enabled so we don't want the info laid over the top of the visualation, so default behaviour is to not permanently to overlay. As mentioned if you manually bring up the info OSD again then it will remain there, even if you stop music, the last know state of hide or overlay permanently should be remembered for next time you start to play music.
As for that advanced setting, the info will always pop up briefly on track change, so all you should need is to specify a value longer than the longest track in your collection.