Vitale4 15 Posted February 24, 2017 Share Posted February 24, 2017 I was reviewing the Preview Build for the ROKU with the intent to play some music. Was wondering if there was a way to be able to play and/or shuffle music for all albums and songs. Meaning - Be able to simply get to the music page and click Play - to allow the playing of every song in my catalog of music. Even allow for it to shuffle or randomly play the songs and not simply go through the music album by album. Thanks 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Grace1313 Posted February 27, 2017 Share Posted February 27, 2017 I guess requests don't get replies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14910 Posted February 27, 2017 Share Posted February 27, 2017 Sorry, not always but we do read them all. This is something to consider. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Grace1313 Posted February 28, 2017 Share Posted February 28, 2017 That's good to know that at least you are reading them. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
botbswco 5 Posted March 6, 2020 Share Posted March 6, 2020 I would like to second the request for a shuffle play of an entire music library. I am a newby and have read some other posts on organizing libraries that seem to indicate that Emby likes to have objects compartmentalized into relatively small compartments, i.e. folders. I can understand that requirement if it reflects a limitation of the Roku player. In my case, I have roughly 8000+ tracks from 400-500 Albums. Given my druthers, I'd prefer to have a folder structure that divided the tracks according to categories I assign, rather than albums, genre, artist, etc. But, whether the organization is 10 folders for my 10 categories, or the 400-500 folders divided among my 10 folders, I'd still love to have a way to shuffle play the entire library rather than just one folder, genre, album, etc. In fact, if I really had my druthers, I'd like to build a playlist based on criteria rather than picking individual items. Something like, Play all tracks not played in 90 days and not in folder x or genre Y. Yes, there is a media player/server that does this (Media Monkey) but they don't have a Roku App. Thanks for considering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37060 Posted March 6, 2020 Share Posted March 6, 2020 Hi there, yes we plan to add shuffling and play all to every single list screen. we're getting there. thanks for the feedback. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speechles 1917 Posted March 7, 2020 Share Posted March 7, 2020 I'd still love to have a way to shuffle play the entire library rather than just one folder, genre, album, etc. Highlight your entire music library and press PLAY on your Roku remote. It will shuffle the entire library. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
botbswco 5 Posted March 7, 2020 Share Posted March 7, 2020 Thank you speechless and luke for your replies. Using the Beta app, I tried as speechless suggested. With the top music library highlighted, I pressed play. That generated a playlist of 200 songs in random order from the two folders I added to the library. That was 200 out of approx 800 in the two folders. Playback was fine. Now, 200 is not the entire library, but since 200 songs is at least 7 hours of playing time, I can live with that. This technique did not work at the folder level. Hitting enter on the highlighted top music library, and then selecting folders got me to a screen with the two folders, each of which contains more than 200 songs. Highlighting either one, and then press play generated an almost immediate playback error. Once clearing the error box, the only action that worked was the back button to take me back up one level. It would be great if the press play on a highlighted container, at any level in the folder tree, would work consistently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14910 Posted March 7, 2020 Share Posted March 7, 2020 Hi. Exactly what did the error say? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speechles 1917 Posted March 7, 2020 Share Posted March 7, 2020 (edited) @@ebr #806 on the GitHub. That is the fix for the issue. Edited March 7, 2020 by speechles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
botbswco 5 Posted March 7, 2020 Share Posted March 7, 2020 Just a dialog box with ! Playback Error and OK checkbox to get out. I did another test by adding a folder with only 115 tracks in it to see if it was the number of tracks in the other folders. Got the same error. speechless, you'll have to help me out on getting to the github.....as I said, I'm a newbie. Is the fix on the user end? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37060 Posted March 7, 2020 Share Posted March 7, 2020 Just a dialog box with ! Playback Error and OK checkbox to get out. I did another test by adding a folder with only 115 tracks in it to see if it was the number of tracks in the other folders. Got the same error. speechless, you'll have to help me out on getting to the github.....as I said, I'm a newbie. Is the fix on the user end? Hi there, can you please attach the emby server log from when you tried to do this? Thanks ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speechles 1917 Posted March 7, 2020 Share Posted March 7, 2020 (edited) The problem is with folders we have no mediatype. In fact, you have type = "folder" and what is in that folder is anyone's guess. Suppose it is folders with albums inside. To Emby that is a folder within a folder. Folders have no type. So it becomes difficult to juggle are we using video or is this audio? Right now the assumption is it is video as naturally that is where people expect folders to playback the most. The playback error you receive is because audio items do not fit into the video playlist. The playlist is empty and because of this the error handler does not understand how it got there. Empty should not be possible. This is why it is just "Playback Error" with no further context. For audio we are going to have to use some method to tell when it is an audio(music) item and act accordingly without running into logic where it affects playback of video within folders. Hope you understand. Github is our internal collaboration tool for issues just like this. To be honest that is 100% the problem right now and we are working on it. It will be improved. Thank you for bringing it up. We will get this squared away. @@Luke this is one of those things. It is hard to fix without making assumptions. Edited March 7, 2020 by speechles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37060 Posted March 7, 2020 Share Posted March 7, 2020 Ok i understand. We are looking into this. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
botbswco 5 Posted March 7, 2020 Share Posted March 7, 2020 Thanks both for the reply. Just a suggestion......Since the parent folder type is labeled as "music" couldn't you have the child folders inherit the parent's properties? Isn't that what you kind of do when you shuffle play the entire library? Thanks again. From this, I assume you don't need the log, correct? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14910 Posted March 8, 2020 Share Posted March 8, 2020 No, we don't need the log at this time. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14910 Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 Please test this with the beta version of the app. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
botbswco 5 Posted March 11, 2020 Share Posted March 11, 2020 Confirm: beta version of ROKU app. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ebr 14910 Posted March 11, 2020 Share Posted March 11, 2020 Confirm: beta version of ROKU app. Hi. Meaning it now works for you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
botbswco 5 Posted March 11, 2020 Share Posted March 11, 2020 OH, sorry Just tried it...excellent!! It works from the library and folder levels, even if the folders have more than 200 songs. As said before, I can live with the 200 limit. One additional comment on messaging: When something is already playing, you get a dialog choice of Que all from here or Play all from here. That confused my little pea brain and I had to try it to see what it was doing. Possibly change choices to "Add to current play que" and "Stop current que and play as new que" ?? Thanks for your quick response on this!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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