Playlists can not be invoked in Kodi 18

[bill-orange]

Over the last couple of days I have observed that playlists don't work right in Kodi 18 (alpha).

Jingai's thought was that a parameter in the playlist function was depreciated in Kodi 18.

On Kodi 17 playlist requests work perfectly. On Kodi 18 they are broken.

I have posted this issue on the LibreElec forum. Hopefully, they will give us some direction as to what changed.

http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=298461&page=125

[bill-orange]

Looks like others are also noting a problem.

http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=315249

The guy that maintains Yatse has some sort of a work-around.

[jingai]

That isn't a work-around though -- that's exactly what we already do if you specify shuffle playlist foo.

Basically, this is a bug in Kodi, it seems.

[jingai]

I'll keep this Issue open here just to remind us to keep an eye on it, but @bill-orange, you should do as suggested and post the issue on Kodi's trac.

[bill-orange]

Indeed. No reply on the main Kodi forum yet. http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=298461&page=125

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[bill-orange]

This thread may pertain to the problem.

https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=318494

[jingai]

Unfortunately not -- we already use POST.

[mcl22]

Any news on that one? I recently switched to kodi 18 and well can't have Alexa play playlists anymore :)

[jingai]

Nope, no news. It's not clear if it's an intentional change or not either. I suspect it's not, but we haven't seen a dev say one way or the other.

[bill-orange]

I rattled the cage on my earlier post to the JSON-RPC forum.

https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=315249

I reverted to Kodi 17.

[bill-orange]

Had there been any motion on this issue. I am not aware of any.

[jingai]

Not that I know of :(

[zarianu]

Hello dear sirs, any updates on this issue?

It seems like there's some workaround, no?
https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=315249&pid=2694920#pid2694920

P.S. Thanks for your huge job creating this piece of software!