[curtis-r]

@DaveBlake thanks for the info.  Indeed the videos are almost all *.mp4 but just tested mixed playlist with mp3, flac, mkv, mp4, avi, and the video issue is the same for all 3 video formats.  Tried with the .avi encountered first after mp3, and after mp4.  Didn't make a difference.

[DaveBlake]

Thanks @curtis-r I thought I was onto something with mp4, but not.
So now looking in yet another part of the code. For me .avi always behave and darned if I can see why (yet) or why not for you. Keep a look out in case I get somewhere

Edit:
Try with "Enable tag reading in file view" disabled (in settings>media>music)

[curtis-r]

Edit:
Try with "Enable tag reading in file view" disabled (in settings>media>music)

Same result.  Sorry.

[DaveBlake]

OK @curtis-r done a lot more digging and hair tearing, I think I have a solution. But proof is in the testing, so could you try this Win64 test build  http://mirrors.kodi.tv/test-builds/windo...02-x64.exe

Had enough false leads and dead ends, I'm hopeful for this.

[curtis-r]

Tested Win7x64 by launching my mixed playlist via the 3 methods, and YOU ARE A GENIUS!  Worked perfectly in every benchmark!  Thank you so much!!!  I can finally upgrade past Krypton.

EDIT: Sorry to stray off topic, but I also just realized that my advancedsettings.xml following code doesn't work.  Music defaults to random and repeat as off.  If I remove the code, the settings still don't stick after closing & reopening.  Should I make this a separate thread somewhere?  I don't see these commands in the wiki.  Though it appears they were removed, I wonder why the setting doesn't stick after closing.

Code:

    <mymusic>
        <playlist>
            <repeat>true</repeat>
            <shuffle>true</shuffle>
        </playlist>
    </mymusic>

[DaveBlake]

Thanks for the positive feedback @curtis-r, the fix will get into a v19 nightly sometime very soon (but is not in yet or in the imminent Beta2 release, I need to do a little more testing to ensure it doesn't break something else)

EDIT: Sorry to stray off topic, but I also just realized that my advancedsettings.xml following code doesn't work.  Music defaults to random and repeat as off.  If I remove the code, the settings still don't stick after closing & reopening.  Should I make this a separate thread somewhere?  I don't see these commands in the wiki.  Though it appears they were removed, I wonder why the setting doesn't stick after closing.

Code:

    <mymusic>
        <playlist>
            <repeat>true</repeat>
            <shuffle>true</shuffle>
        </playlist>
    </mymusic>

No, I don't think anything like that ever worked or was ever intended to (even if wiki listed them). At least I went back as far as v15.2 and the current playlist shuffle/repeat were not picked up from advancedsettings.xml at all. Generally yes system settings can be set in advancedsettings.xml and then hidden from the system settings screens, but shuffle/repeat are a little different in how and where they are applied (set on the sideblade when on the current music playlist).

However I did notice that upto and including v18.9, the previous session current playlist shuffle/repeat settings were reapplied on restarting Kodi, but in v19 they are not. So another regression has crept in to the party without an invite, I'll take a look. Let's hope this is more obvious than the last issue, well at least it is more recent.

If this looks like it could become long protracted I'll probably split it into a new thread

[DaveBlake]

@curtis-r I have managed to locate and fix the regression that was stopping current playlist shuffle and repeat settings from being preserved between sessions of running Kodi.  Test build coming soon.

EDIT: here we are Win64 test build http://mirrors.kodi.tv/test-builds/windo...01-x64.exe

That includes the recent mixed playlist playback fix (swapping between full screen for video and viz/OSD for music) too.

But remember, no setting of shuffle/repeat via advancedsettings.xml you have to do it via sideblade UI the first time and then Kodi remembers for every playlist and between sessions