v18/Leia: Music > Song browsing is broken (songs and album details not listed) in Chorus2

[arigit]

Tested with the latest v18 nightly (alpha2)

Via Kodi GUI, I am able to browse my Music collection with no issues (by Genre, Album, Songs etc) and play it back.

Via the Web Interface (Chorus2), Albums and Genres are listed as usual, as well as artists. However, when clicking in any album (which would normally display), no songs are displayed.

Forum discussion thread with details, including debug logs: https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=333140

I reported this initially in the Music team but they diagnosed immediately that the problem is with Chorus2 using an outdated JSON API.

Sample error triggered by Chorus2 when I try to browse the contents of an album:

15:12:25.922 T:140249047422720 DEBUG: JSONRPC: Incoming request: {"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"AudioLibrary.GetAlbumDetails","id":"1529781145889","params":{"albumid":3889,"properties":["thumbnail","playcount","artistid","artist","genre","albumlabel","year","dateadded","style","fanart","mood","description","genreid","rating","type","theme"]}}
15:12:25.922 T:140249047422720 DEBUG: JSONRPC: Value does not match any of the enum values in type
15:12:25.922 T:140249047422720 DEBUG: JSONRPC: Array element at index 12 does not match in type properties

[mrobe]

I am having problems with this too. I am willing to try and help resolve it, but I need guidance setting up the build environment. Anybody?

[jez500]

Hi All, I know this is an issue and is very high on my priority list.

As the API has changed between 17 & 18 I need to update any pending PRs and do a final release for 17, then fork a version for 18 where dev/fixes can be applied to Leia only

Will likely have 2 new branches going forward, something like...
17.x-dev & 18.x-dev

[mrobe]

Sounds great, thanks! What can we do to help?

[jez500]

Should be all fixed now :)
To test install the zip from this release https://github.com/xbmc/chorus2/releases/tag/18.x-2.4.5

[mrobe]

Thanks!

How do we install this?

My failed attempt is described here:

https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=333520&pid=2754879#pid2754879

[jez500]

• Extract the zip, eg to your desktop, it should be one folder webinterface.default
• Find that same folder in your Kodi install, eg on windows it might be C:\Program Files (x86)\Kodi\addons\webinterface.default
• Delete the webinterface.default folder inside your Kodi install addons folder
• Copy the extracted webinterface.default folder to the addons folder

[mrobe]

Linux machine. I just tried it again. Rebooted. Help > About Chorus still says 2.4.4.

[arigit]

@mrobe the latest kodi nightlies already come with chorus 2.4.5 included, so just install a recent nightly - the issue is fixed

[mrobe]

Thanks! Got it sorted. The very stubborn Safari cache was throwing me off.

Now wondering about this: #331