Music navigation

Side bar
The library organizes your music into many categories, allowing you to find a specific song using one of many possible criteria. Below you can see root menu showing the different sections.

File mode
File mode is the most basic way of browing your music. In file mode, you browse through your sources folder by folder, in the exact same way they are stored. What you see in file mode is the same as you would see if you were to browse the folders on your computer.

Library mode
The library mode is much more advanced and has many more features than the Files View. It has features like song, album and artist info to name a few. In order to utilize library mode, you first need to scan your music into the Music library using the.

Searching your Library
The search button is available on the left side of the 'Music' window, and is also available in the root listing of your music library. Select it to begin your search. A keyboard will pop-up where you may enter search terms (SMS style with the remote, or just using the virtual keyboard). As you enter more letters, the search will be performed in the background, and results displayed in the search node of the music library. Previous searches are saved, so if you return to the search node later on, it will have the results of your previous search. Artists and Albums are shown on top, followed by matching songs. If the search string you enter is less than 3 characters, Kodi will just search in the first word of each artist/album/song. Otherwise it will do a full word search. NOTE: In order to search within words as well as just for words beginning with your search string, place a % sign in front of the match.

Party Mode
Selecting Party Mode from the sidebar will play ALL valid media scanned into your libraries in a random order that meet the conditions specified in the Smart Playlist.

The Party Mode option allows you to randomly play music from your entire music or music video collection based on criteria specified in the PartyMode.xsp smart playlist which is stored in the The UserData Folder. To change the behaviour of Party Mode simply edit the "Party mode playlist" item in the Playlist menu by bringing up the context menu and select Edit Playlist.

To play any playlist in Party Mode, you can bring up the context menu and select Play in party mode. This can be done for any valid playlist.

Context Menu
In the default configuration you pop up the Context Menu using the 'C' key on your keyboard. If you are navigating Kodi using a remote control, the default button is, for some releases, the 'title' button. If your remote control has no 'title' button then you may need to remap the ContextMenu action to another button.

File mode
The context menu allows you to interact with the individual media items. The following options are available whilst in File Mode, selecting an album: Other possible menu items
 * Search
 * Allows you to search for specific media

Library mode
You perform actions on your music files using the Context Menu. In Library Mode selecting an album, the following options are available: