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niagara94
Binge Watcher
2 years ago
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Roku Media Player - Only Playing One Album

Hi - I am only able to play one album at a time on the Roku Media Player.  Any ideas on how to fix this?  Thanks!

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  • RokuJohnB's avatar
    RokuJohnB
    Community Moderator
    2 years ago

    Hi niagara94,

    Thank you for posting here in the Roku Community!

    We understand you're having a problem with the Roku media player since it was playing only one album at a time. We're happy to assist you. Please check out this support article here on how to use Roku Media Player to play your videos, music, and photos for troubleshooting steps and details.

    Please keep us posted on what you find out.

    Best regards,
    John

    • niagara94's avatar
      niagara94
      Binge Watcher
      2 years ago

      Hi - Thank you for your reply. I followed the instructions from the link that you mentioned. However, I can only play one album at a time. I'm trying to play all albums from one artist at a time. How would I do that? Thanks!

      • AvsGunnar's avatar
        AvsGunnar
        Community Streaming Expert
        2 years ago

        niagara94 

        Have you tried placing all the songs by that artist in the same folder?

        Roku Media Player (RMP) will play all content in a single folder, but will not start playing content from another folder, generally, without a playlist file. (ie. if you have different folder for each album, only the songs from a particular album folder will play).

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        I don't use RMP for audio files, but maybe you can create an autostart file (autostart.m3u) or playlist file (PLS, m3u, or m3u8) as described in the Roku Support article. (not sure if it can jump/switch between folders like a Playlist (PLS) file for video files in RMP, but would assume it will if included in the playlist file.)

        https://support.roku.com/article/208754908

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        I can likely try adding some audio files tomorrow and playing around a bit , but perhaps makaiguy or atc98092 can weigh in with some options.  I generally just use RMP for video content.

         

  • makaiguy's avatar
    makaiguy
    Community Streaming Expert
    2 years ago

    niagara940

    How are you accessing your music files?  If you have them on a networked computer, Roku Media Player can access them from a DLNA server installed on the computer.  Then RMP can access any music indexes established on your DLNA server.   You can set a DLNA server up natively in WIndows, but there are more versatile ones out there.

    I've tried several DLNA servers over the years, but I keep going back to the free version 3.8 of an old one called TVersity for my photos and music because I really the collection of indexes it creates based on the metadata info in each file..  I set up which folders I wish it to scan, and it scans and indexes everything in that folder and subfolders. 

    TVersity has been discontinued and is no longer supported, but can still be downloaded from numerous sites such as Major Geeks.

     

    • niagara94's avatar
      niagara94
      Binge Watcher
      2 years ago

      Hi - Thank you for your reply.  I do have them on a networked computer.  I had been using Plex as a media server and using the Plex app on Roku but they no longer have a screen saver and I am trying to prevent tv damage from static images when listening to music.  I'm open to other ideas.  Thanks for mentioning TVersity.  Any other options?  Thanks!