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Ok, I am new to Kodi and have quite a few questions about using it as a music server that I can’t seem to get answered anywhere online. I used to use Windows Media Player and was able to play music on a small hard drive connected to my pc, via an AV processor and so listen to my music through my hi-fi speakers instead of just on a laptop. I have a huge music collection and it was until recently stored on hundreds of mp3 dvds. But I bought a 6TB drive and have put it all on there (about 4TB worth) as well as backing it all up on BDXL discs. But I soon realised that the Windows player was not up to the job, and so my research brought me to Kodi. It worked fine, it scoured the hard drive and it took about half an hour or more but it found all the music. So now on my tv screen I get Kodi/Desktop when I select NET/SERVER on the amp. But it’s not without it’s problems. I have no way to search from my amp. It gives me a menu such as Artists, Albums, Genres etc as well as Recently Added and Recently Played. But because it’s such a large collection it’s a nightmare. If I select Albums it shows the first 10 and you can then ‘scroll’ through them 10 at a time. But when you consider that the first few hundred or more start off with a ‘ or a ! or similar and then eventually get to those beginning with the number 1 you will start to see the problem. Same kind of issues with artists. I know that part of the problem is that quite a bit of my ‘tagging’ is either crap or non existent. They didn’t really use it in the early days of mp3 so lots of my stuff has no artist for example and often no track names. So I started playing around with Playlists on the Kodi app on my pc, but I find it really difficult and have so many questions about how to use it and can’t seem to find advice anywhere. All the info online seems to relate to using Kodi as an interface for various add-ons to watch tv channels and movies. So if anyone has a good understanding of how to create, edit and delete playlists please reply and I can give you more details of what I’ve been trying to do. Thanks, Mike
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2020-02-09, 20:12
(This post was last modified: 2020-02-09, 20:13 by black_eagle.)
Go to the playlist you want to delete/edit and (if using a keyboard) press the letter c. That gives you the context menu from where you can choose to edit or delete the playlist as well as some other choices. Are you connected to your amp by network cable then or HDMI ?
Edited to add, you can have as many playlists as you want. They can be either ordinary playlists or 'smart' playlists built from rules.
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Tearing my hair out!! If you go into Playlists and then you open the one you want to either edit or delete and then press C you get the menu box in the middle but the only option there that sounds of any use at all is the one that says 'edit playlist', so I click on that and then you get a page with OPEN, SAVE & CLEAR in the left column and then FILES, LIBRARY and MUSIC VIDEOS in the middle column with the tracks that are in the playlist on the right. So where do I go from there? I have tried going into files and library and selecting an album that I'd like to add. To me the only logical next step would be click on SAVE. So I do that, and it then opens up with a box showing the name of the playlist and asking me if I want to change it. So I don't change it I just click on save or finished or whatever it was, using the same playlist name. So the logical conclusion would surely be that it would have added the album you selected to that playlist? But no, when I come out of it and go back to that playlist from the start screen it still just contains the same 18 tracks as it did at first. Can anyone help??
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Press 'c' on the album you want to add. Up will pop a little box with an 'add' option. Select that. To remove a track in the right window, simply move to the track you want rid of and press delete.
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To be clear, you have to go to the playlist you want to edit/add to, then find the album/track you want to add and press c on that to get the add option.
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