Music - Folder Mode - Play All

[mike1961]

When I'm in the Folder Mode for Music, if I click on a folder, Sage then displays all the subfolders in that folder. Finally, when I'm down into the last folder it allows me to do a Play All for all the music in that folder. But, is there a way to do a Play All for a parent folder? I'm thinking there's got to be a way but I can't figure out how. Ideally, I would like to turn the shuffle on (which I know how to do) and then play all the songs in all the child folders of a folder being displayed.

Thanks,
Mike

[Opus4]

Currently, it is set up to play only the items in that folder, instead of the items in the folder + items in all subfodlers. That can change in the future, but probably not right away.

- Andy

[mike1961]

Is there another view I can go to so that it will play all the files? Here's something strange though - the other day I was playing a song in a sub-folder in the Folder view. I then had to disconnect the cat5 network cable and a minute or so later I reconnected it. Sage then started to randomly play all the songs in all the folders (I was in shuflle mode). So, I thought there may have been a way to do this. If I have a main folder called iTunes and a lot of sub-folders with the artist's names and their songs in those folders, I just want to play all the songs. I'm not sure if that is the best way to categorize all the songs or not. Is there a recommended way to categorize one's mp3 collection in Sage?

Thanks,
Mike

[Opus4]

Currently, the default STV doesn't have an option to play all music, but that will probably be added sometime in the future too. All music is played in a playlist as of v6, so it stops at the end of the playlist (or repeats) instead of continuing to play every song. Maybe you managed to get out of the playlist somehow when you disconnected & reconnect... not sure about that.

Anyway, the closest you can come currently is to select a genre or some other category that has most of your music & try playing that. I kind of like this method, since I have various genres that wouldn't sound right when played together.

- Andy

[mike1961]

That would be great but there doesn't seem to be an easy way to add a bunch of songs to a playlist. It seems like I have to do each song one by one.

Mike

[Opus4]

Just select the group in one of the other browser views & there will be an option to add all the music to a playlist, play it, etc.

Oh - I just remembered: for performance reasons (it can take a while to add lots of items to a playlist), if the group is very large, it may not offer to add it all to a playlist. You can increase this property, if you need to:

music/max_playlist_grouped_add=500

It will automatically group all the songs into their albums & add whole albums as single items, so the default limit of 500 should really be equivalent to several thousand songs.

- Andy