[howell4c]

I'm using the API's Player.Open with a directory to play all items from a folder. It works great, except that it stops when it encounters images (e.g., folder.jpg).

I assume it's displaying the image, but I'm running headless so I don't want it to.

Is there a way to exclude the images and/or have it only show for X seconds and then move on?

json:
{"jsonrpc":"2.0", 

  "method":"Player.Open", 

  "params": 

    {"item":

      {"directory":"/mnt/media-net/audio/incoming/"}

    },

  "id":1

}

[izprtxqkft]

not according to the documentation for that function - https://kodi.wiki/view/JSON-RPC_API/v10#Player.Open

however as an alternative you could create a smart playlist that is called from that function which does the exclusion for you instead - https://kodi.wiki/view/Smart_playlists

i expect parameters like path contains and file does not contain would be able to include a folder and exclude .jpg

[howell4c]

Thanks! I hadn't thought of a playlist approach.

It looks like smart playlists require media to have been scanned into the library, which these folders haven't. But I'll look into writing a quick script to generate an .m3u of the audio files in that folder and then play that.

[izprtxqkft]

right on