Hi!
I’m new to this forum and to Kodi in general and I’m still figuring out the right place for the issue I have – I hope I chose the right one
I’m trying to use Kodi as a headless music system most of the time and only connect it to my projector occasionally. I want to use Kore, the official iOS remote and the webinterface to control Kodi. This already works quite well, I only have one bigger issue right now:
I mainly add music to playlists by browsing the folders of my music collection. It is organised in multiple genre-folders, containing sub-folders for artists and albums or compilations. Most folders also contain a lot of single files that don’t belong into a sub-folder.
The first thing I noticed when browsing my collection with one of the above mentioned remotes is the folder naming. A lot of them seem to get album names, even if they don’t contain full albums.
One example:
I have a folder called ‘Nina Simone’, which contains several subfolders for albums, like ‘1965 – I Put A Spell On You’. The ‘Nina Simone’ folder also contains one single file called ‘Nina Simone – Baltimore.mp3’ (which is from the album ‘Baltimore’ and is tagged as such).
In the webinterface or Kore
‘Nina Simone’ is called ‘Baltimore’
‘1965 – I Put A Spell On You’ is called ‘I Put A Spell On You’
‘Nina Simone – Baltimore.mp3’ is called ‘Baltimore’
The genre-folders (with usually lots of singe files and sub-folders) are called correctly.
Is there an option somewhere to only show the file and folder names as they are on disk? And is it possible to add whole folders to a playlist? This doesn’t seem to possible either.
There is also a bug report for Kore from another user with the same problem: https://github.com/xbmc/Kore/issues/65
At first I thought this was a bug in Kore, too. I took me some time to realize that this seems to be a bug in Kodi itself.
I hope that somebody can help me with this.
Greetings
Zapp!
Edit: I forgot – I’m testing this with LibreELEC v7.90.009, Kodi v17.0-beta6