Completed sort music album by track order?

[arztonyou 17]

Hello,

 

 

I know the XBMB3C addon hasn't been developed fully for music, and I don't usually use it for music either.   But I recently tried the Aeon MQ5 skin and really liked it.  Unlike a couple other skins, there is no option to use the local XBMC library for music, so I decided to try out the addon for music.  Is there a setting somewhere to sort individual albums so the songs are ordered by track number?  I clicked "sort by" but there wasn't an option there.  Could this be easily added?  All I want is the ability to click on an album and have the songs appear in the usual order as on the CD. 

 

 

Thanks.

 

 

 

 

[xnappo 1597]

I don't think this should be too hard - I marked it as approved - we will get around to it

 

Note that we are switching to XBMC native sorting (which is in the beta) - but sort by track isn't there yet either.

 

xnappo

[arztonyou 17]

Wow, that was fast!!!     Thanks for the quick reply.  

 

 

I should have mentioned that I'm using the latest stable version of the addon.  I haven't tried installing the Beta Repo.

[xnappo 1597]

Okay - yeah no need to mess with the beta - just letting you know that when it does get integrated the sorting will be with the 'normal' XBMC sort rather than the context menu (which is being removed).

[xnappo 1597]

I added this on Github - so it should show up on a beta release fairly soon.  I am not going to push a new version just for this though.

[arztonyou 17]

Great!!!  I look forward to trying it out when it gets released.  Thanks a lot.

[xnappo 1597]

@@arztonyou

If you don't mind beta testing, it is going to be in version 0.9.755 in the beta repo shortly.

[arztonyou 17]

Yeah, I could do that.  It'll be my first time doing any beta testing for anything, so let me know if you need anything more than the obvious "try it out and see how it works".

[xnappo 1597]

Yep - just try it and see if it works

 

You know how to use the Kodi native sorting?

[arztonyou 17]

If you just mean by using the arrow keys to pull up the "side menu" and select "sort by" from that menu, then no problem.

[xnappo 1597]

Yep.

[xnappo 1597]

Oh - you do need to have 'Enable Fast Processing' turned on under 'Services' (bottom of the list).

[arztonyou 17]

I installed the beta version 0.9.760 of the XBMB3C addon and used it to test my music folder within the standard Confluence skin.  

 

When I clicked on an album, the songs were listed in track order with the track number listed just before the name of the track.  

 

I was also able to use the XBMC "sort by" command to sort by name, duration, etc.  

 

If I hit play on a track, the selected track played and then playback stopped when that song was done.

 

If I used the context menu to select "play all from here", then playback did continue once the highlighted song was finished, but NOT in the sorted order shown in the list.  By comparison with the stable version of the addon on a different machine, it appears that the songs were played in the order in which they used to be shown before you added sorting to the beta version.

 

 

If you want any logs, just let me know which logs and what logging level you need.  And if you want me to test out any other particular functionality, just let me know.

[xnappo 1597]

Thanks - I didn't test the 'Play All From Here' feature.

 

@@im85288 - I think we need to consolidate 'Play All From Here' with your new continue play code?

[arztonyou 17]

Okay, let me know if you want me to check anything else.  

 

 

Is it possible to check to see if the user has the "play the next song automatically" selected in the Music->Playback settings and then assume they would want to handle music  the same way in the addon?  Or perhaps you could add such a setting in the configuration menu of the addon.

 

 

Thanks again for working on this so quickly. I know you have a lot of other things on your plate as well, so I do appreciate it.

[xnappo 1597]

Yep - that is what I was asking @@im85288 about. Those two features are a bit redundant.

[im85288 1493]

Thanks - I didn't test the 'Play All From Here' feature.

 

@@im85288 - I think we need to consolidate 'Play All From Here' with your new continue play code?

 

Yes agreed, I never used the "play all from here" functionality but it does seem to do something similar to the new continue play code (though that currently will only search for unplayed episodes in the same season and add them automatically to the playlist). As for this issue with the sorting order I have no idea what was effected. Perhaps the change to use local Kodi sorting over server side sorting played a part here.

[xnappo 1597]

Yes agreed, I never used the "play all from here" functionality but it does seem to do something similar to the new continue play code (though that currently will only search for unplayed episodes in the same season and add them automatically to the playlist). As for this issue with the sorting order I have no idea what was effected. Perhaps the change to use local Kodi sorting over server side sorting played a part here.

Yeah - the track sorting was never right in music to begin with.  I will fix that part.  Note that 'Play All from Here' will always play in track order once fixed, regardless of client-side sorting.

[xnappo 1597]

@@Luke - I can't seem to find the right server side sort for album tracks.  SortName seems to return a random order?

 

xnappo

 

[EDIT] Disregard

Edited December 31, 2014 by xnappo

[xnappo 1597]

Just pushed a version that will make 'play all from here' play in track order.