Widget and Audio Issues

Hi everyone,

I have two issues or concerns I’d like some with. I hope I’m posting in the right sub-forum.

  1. A little while back, my random movies widget stopped working correctly. It used to randomize my entire movie library; now it only randomizes movies from within a pool of films as of a certain date. In other words, only films I keep adding are added to the randomization pool, older ones aren’t. How do I fix this? I remember fiddling with settings but don’t know what I did.
  2. A lot of the films I watch have quiet voices or dialogue but the music or sound is fine. So when I crank up the volume to hear the dialogue, and then an action scene starts, it’s way too loud. I read online that this has something to do with my system’s audio channel(s), so I’ll tell you what I have:

I am running KODI 15.1 on a Windows 10 HTPC (Aeon Nox skin). I don’t have surround sound, I’m just playing these films through my flat-screen’s audio. If you need any more information to help troubleshoot, please let me know.

Thanks in advance.