[freezy]

Maybe someone figures that out, I'm kinda stuck here. For our XBMC client for Android, I'm selecting arbitrarily songs which XBMC is supposed to play or queue. That can be a whole album, all songs from an artist, all songs of a genre, etc. Controls pass through the HTTP API.

In order to play song A, B, C (in that order), I imagined doing the following:

Code:

ClearPlayList(0)
AddToPlayList(A;0)
PlayFile(A;0)
AddToPlayList(B;0)
AddToPlayList(C;0)

[A, B, C being complete path names to the MP3 files]

Now, when I'm in XBMC, pressing space in the music library shows the playlist and shows indeed these three songs queued. Also, song A is playing.

BUT, only the first song plays. It stops playing before the second song. Apparently the PlayFile command only plays ONE single song and then stops. Is there a way to play the whole bunch? I studied the Wiki a while now, but I can't figure it out. Master jmarshall perhaps?

Cheers,

-freezy.

[jmarshall]

AddToPlaylist and then maybe a PlaylistNext ?

[freezy]

Well, I tried:

Code:

ClearPlayList(0)
AddToPlayList(A;0)
PlaylistNext()
AddToPlayList(B;0)
AddToPlayList(C;0)

That queues ABC (expected) but it doesn't play anything at all (XBMC is stopped). But I just looked in the code and discovered AddToPlayListFromDB. That sounds promising!

[freezy]

That's too weird, here was just someone asking the same question TODAY. I did some research the other day, believe me

[freezy]

Ah, figured it out. The trick is:

Code:

ClearPlayList(0)
AddToPlayList(A;0)
AddToPlayList(B;0)
AddToPlayList(C;0)
SetCurrentPlaylist(0)
PlaylistNext()

That plays it. Thanks for the hint Jonathan.

[jmarshall]

Cool, glad you got it going!