Normal/smart/stream playlist support

[paulvt]

Please add support for playback of normal, smart and stream (music) playlists, in normal play and in party mode. (Maybe also add party mode in general?)

I usually use smart playlist to contain a subset of my music collection so that the party mode will not play all songs (such as livesets or long mixed album tracks).

I recall that when this features was implemented in the AWXi interface two years ago, there were issues with the API to get the playlists and differentiate between the types (stream file, playlist, smartl playlist) as I believe they were seen as some kind of virtual folders. Possible this has been resolved, otherwise this feature might be blocked by a proper API?

[RobertMe]

Hi Paul,
I'm not that familiar with playlists in Kodi (as I only use it to watch movies and TV Shows), but adding support for browsing (normal?) playlist would indeed be a good addition, which is supported by the API. But as I'm not familiar with all the playlist modes I can't tell whether party mode etc would be possible.

So thanks for the request, and I will look into adding (at least basic) support for this in one of the upcoming versions.

[RobertMe]

Meanwhile, I already have a very basic prove of concept working (build in ~30 minutes). Both for normal playlists and smart playlists. With a couple of hours of more work this should be fairly polished. So this means it might already make it into the next release (depending on when that release will happen and how much spare time I have until then).

[mzanetti]

This is only partially fixed. Smart playlists are still open.