This is my first year using Kodi. I have a main library of general music. The file structure for my music is always music > artist > album > songs.
I doubt it matters, but I'm using Kodi 15.x on Win10, Confluence skin.
I set up a generic smart playlist to read all music in my library and shuffle it (I have to say I can't believe how hard it is to tell Kodi just to shuffle a recursive directory full of music -- MediaMonkey, MusicBee et al do this drop dead simple -- point at a directory and say shuffle).
The problem is that I have a second directory full of Christmas season music. Obviously I don't want that mixed into my general catalogue during playback and I don't want to spend a lot of time tagging stuff that can simply be segregated easily by directory.
The rub comes when I try to set up a second smart list to shuffle across my that Christmas directory. Again, should be simple if I were using any other media player, but I can't seem to figure it out with Kodi. It either starts mixing in non-Christmas music (which I don't want) or won't play anything at all.
Any chance of figuring this out before Christmas? ;)
Thanks in advance...
Not sure why you mention the first playlist, but here is a way without smart playlists:
Add the parent folder of your christmas folder to your files. Don't scan it to library. Select the christmas folder, go to context menu (hit c if your using a keyboard) and choose queue media. Your songs will start playing, just go into the currently playing visualization and hit randomize at the bottom.