2019-04-06, 18:09
Currently I know you can launch a playlist when Kodi starts up and it will play in the background, however it doesn't resume when you pause or end a show/movie etc to return to the Kodi menus.
I tried to build this with scripts and the Kodi Callback addon, using VLC in the background as the music source, but Kodi would always grab the audio device away from VLC, so it seems the internal Kodi player would be needed to handle the actual playback.
It would be wonderful if we could have background music that always continues whenever in the Kodi menus. An addon with some simple playlist functions like shuffle, loop, fade-in/out on play/pause would be all that is needed to bring an extra audio dimension to the interface. To avoid it diving in to the middle of a playlist, the triggers for pause play would better if they were associated with returning to a menu screen. Maybe we could even integrate PianoBar (Open source Pandora Command Line Client) into the addon and you could point at a Pandora streaming channel for your background music.
I've never made an addon, but I'd be willing to help out in any way I can if anyone would like to explore this idea with me.
Thoughts?
I tried to build this with scripts and the Kodi Callback addon, using VLC in the background as the music source, but Kodi would always grab the audio device away from VLC, so it seems the internal Kodi player would be needed to handle the actual playback.
It would be wonderful if we could have background music that always continues whenever in the Kodi menus. An addon with some simple playlist functions like shuffle, loop, fade-in/out on play/pause would be all that is needed to bring an extra audio dimension to the interface. To avoid it diving in to the middle of a playlist, the triggers for pause play would better if they were associated with returning to a menu screen. Maybe we could even integrate PianoBar (Open source Pandora Command Line Client) into the addon and you could point at a Pandora streaming channel for your background music.
I've never made an addon, but I'd be willing to help out in any way I can if anyone would like to explore this idea with me.
Thoughts?
