Is there anything I can do to speed up Kodi's handling of Collections?

[kandykarter]

So, I'm using J4K in Addon Mode, and everything is dialed in pretty much exactly as I want it. Fully integrated into my Kodi skin, etc.

The only remaining problem I have is with Sets/Collections. I make pretty heavy use of my Collections library in Jellyfin using letterboxd-auto-collections to pull themed lists of films due to Jellyfin's lack of "discovery" options to browse a very large library.

Of course, I'm aware that Kodi only allows movies to show in one set at a time, as its Sets interface is designed to really only work with groups of related films (the indiana jones movies, or star wars, etc), which makes the native "Sets" interface basically useless to me. Instead, I have shortcuts mapped to Jellyfin's "Collections" library, which works well enough once it loads, but I'm waiting an average of a minute or so for the Collections library to load in Kodi, then another minute or so to click through into the actual collections themselves.

[Edited to add: this is probably a more general "how can I speed up "Dynamic" library access", as my Music library, which is not synced with Kodi, also takes absolute *ages* to load. I've futzed around with the "Paging" options in the addon settings and it doesn't seem to have had much effect on anything]

Is there any setting I can tweak to speed this up?

[mcarlton00]

This is probably not the answer you want, but it's the only accurate one I'm aware of:

Put your developer hat on and start optimizing code. Theoretically dynamic libraries in Jellyfin for Kodi should be able to load within a few seconds, much like they do in Jellycon. The honest truth is that the code around dynamic libraries is ancient and very unoptimized, and that's largely because it's not really how the addon is intended to be used so nobody has spent the time to make it better. Probably 99% of the usage of Jellyfin for Kodi is syncing data into the local database, so dynamic libraries just haven't gotten a lot of love.

[kandykarter]

That's fair and it's good context! I appreciate the response, even though I unfortunately do not have a developer hat. Cheers.

[KodiUser1138]

MY method, long before I found JF, is smart playlists and tags. Of course I manually curate both but once done it's pretty easy to maintain. I use Collections in JF much differently than I use similar in Kodi, with some overlap. But I have playlists based on director, title/sorttitle and tags. Just wish JF would also be capable of using tags and such to auto-populate collections. At the least just library name/(sort)title.