Is it normal that Emby does not remember audio tracks?

[jbourne 0]

Situation: I play music by going to Music > Folders (because my tagging is really bad, but folder structures are done well, so I just navigate to the folder where my albums are and load the M3Us in there). Emby will play the M3U just fine. However, if I exit Emby (either by pausing the track and navigating away from it for an extended period of time, or whatever), and return to it, it's as if I never played that track: it is not in my current playlist, if I go to Music, I'm back to album view, if I go to Folders then I have to navigate all the way down into the folder (never mind that the M3U is not loaded, so I don't know which track I was on, etc).

Is this expected behaviour? Is the only way to correctly remember positions to play from the Album view? (I didn't try it because I don't want to have to retag all my music if this is the reason - I'd rather look for another solution to play music, it would be faster...). This happens on both the iOS and the Android client.

[visproduction 315]

Maybe this setting will help:

1. Admin page
2. Library
3. Individual library - three dots button
4. Pop-up selection - Edit
5. Bottom of the page - Adjust the settings to allow shorter songs to be remembered.

[jbourne 0]

Hmm this is for music videos, isn’t it? I meant just pure music, ie MP3s - so in the Music library, I don’t seem to have this option at all?

Btw running 4.9.0.30. 

[Luke 42079]

Hi, what do you mean by it's like you never played the track?

[jbourne 0]

1 hour ago, Luke said:

Hi, what do you mean by it's like you never played the track?

No, I basically expect something like an audio player’s behaviour. In other words:

1) Similar to a video player, maybe have a tile on the main page that says “Music” and that would continue playing the playlist that was previously loaded, and

2) At the very least if I click the Music tile, it would at least remember the state of the folder browser - so basically if I navigated 5 levels down, it should reopen with the same folder so I can load the playlist again. 

A typical use case is, in the case of a vehicle: 

1. Start engine, load playlist, begin playback 

2. Stop engine, exit car, go to a store

3. Get back in the car, start engine, continue music playback  

Currently, 3 does not look possible without completely reloading the playlist manually. 

[Luke 42079]

OK yea we do this for audiobook libraries but not currently music libraries. But more options to control this are possible for future updates. Thanks.

[jbourne 0]

4 hours ago, Luke said:

OK yea we do this for audiobook libraries but not currently music libraries. But more options to control this are possible for future updates. Thanks.

Yeah I saw the audiobook discussion from several years ago. What are the chances this is anywhere on the “soon” roadmap? I’m guessing this isn’t very high priority.

[Luke 42079]

I don't have an ETA but it's certainly possible for the future. Thanks.

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Basically the Music play queue could really use some attention.

 

[jbourne 0]

2 hours ago, wordlover said:

This is related to this "this is related to"

Basically the Music play queue could really use some attention.

 

PlexAmp is miles ahead in this … a situation I hope will change sooner than later. 

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6 minutes ago, jbourne said:

PlexAmp is miles ahead in this … a situation I hope will change sooner than later. 

Oh you sweet, crazy dreamer...