Play / Add / Enqeue all songs of the library

[topas-rec]

Is it possible to add all songs or multiple albums at once of the library to the playlist?

I am unable to to that though I read the FAQ this time.

I tried to multi select albums or songs to then right click and append or so, but multi-select is not possible.
Also right clicking on the Albums entry shows the append entry as disabled.

If it is not possible I would like to suggest that feature.

Best wishes to everyone.

[yktoo]

You're right, it's not currently possible. Multiselection in the library seems a really unwieldy task, but you can easily click on "+" left of each item to add it to the queue, and then save the queue into a playlist.

I could've enabled adding the entire collection upon selecting the root "Files" element though. Looks like a valuable feature to me.

[topas-rec]

Multiselection in the library seems a really unwieldy task, but you can easily click on "+" left of each item to add it to the queue, and then save the queue into a playlist.

Not really the same - since deselecting is easier than removing from playlist. But I also think that this is not needed. Wrote it just as an alternative appoach for "add all songs" which could be done by STRG-A (select all) in albums view for example if multiselection would be possible and then add them alltogether.

I could've enabled adding the entire collection upon selecting the root "Files" element though. Looks like a valuable feature to me.

If it would be on the files root node only I think it's kind of hidden. I think it could be on other root nodes, too, without additional effort. It adds all files for Artists, Albums, Genres and Files.

Existing menu entries could be reused for this:

Append to the queue or Replace the queue

[topas-rec]

but you can easily click on "+" left of each item to add it to the queue, and then save the queue into a playlist.

And since this doesn't has to be done daily - this is okay for now - at least for my music library size.

[yktoo]

Pushed to dev, but it's only available for the Files element for consistency.

Otherwise the list of tracks would need to be filtered during processing. For instance, tracks without a genre would have to be skipped when adding all by right-clicking "Genres → Replace the queue" (Genre, Album, Artist are all optional). This is hardly a realistic use case.

Therefore, since every track has a file, you can add/replace all library tracks by right-clicking "Files".

By the way, while testing that feature I bumped into a hard queue size limit by the MPD: 16384 items. My library is quite a bit larger.

[yktoo]

Update the queue size limit appears to be configurable.

[topas-rec]

Oh thank you very much.

(Genre, Album, Artist are all optional).

You mean these metadata tags are not necessarily be filled at some files in the library?

[yktoo]

@topas-rec Exactly. They may all be empty, in which case it isn't logical to add those tracks to the queue.