User talk:Karellen/scratchpad - Revision history

Karellen at 00:50, 5 July 2017

2017-07-05T00:50:14Z

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	Worth discussing impact of having just one album by an artist, and disc sets. probably some more explanation in my comments on import		Worth discussing impact of having just one album by an artist, and disc sets. probably some more explanation in my comments on import


			My References
			http://kodi.wiki/index.php?title=Artwork&oldid=81191

			https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=275765

			http://kodi.wiki/view/Import-Export_library#Music_Library_Export_.2F_Import

			http://kodi.wiki/view/Music_library

			[[User:Karellen\|Karellen]] ([[User talk:Karellen\|talk]]) 20:50, 4 July 2017 (EDT)

DaveBlake: Basic Artwork

2017-07-01T08:19:51Z

Basic Artwork

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	Worth noting that basic album art (cover) can also be scanned from the appropriate tags embedded in the music files. That is where most of my art comes from. Then album and artist art can be scraped from online sources or NFO files with the location of the art, or manually set to locally held files.		Worth noting that basic album art (cover) can also be scanned from the appropriate tags embedded in the music files. That is where most of my art comes from. Then album and artist art can be scraped from online sources or NFO files with the location of the art, or manually set to locally held files.

	== ~~Compilation albums~~ ==		== Basic music Artwork ==

	Having a folder for every artist on the compilation is a CDart addon thing, not out the box Kodi. Kodi will not do anything with such folders.		Having a folder for every artist on the compilation is a CDart addon thing, not out the box Kodi. Kodi will not do anything with such folders.

			Worth explaining that the name of folders does not matter to Kodi at all, just the files located beneth then and how the music files are tagged

			The artist folder is the folder that contains somewhere below it all the songs by that artist. Kodi finds it by searching for the lowest common denominator path (no idea how to say that in user language) not by looking at the name.

			Likewise the album folder is the one containing all the songs on that album.

			Worth discussing impact of having just one album by an artist, and disc sets. probably some more explanation in my comments on import

DaveBlake: /* Compilation albums */ new section

2017-07-01T08:10:37Z

Compilation albums: new section

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	Worth noting that basic album art (cover) can also be scanned from the appropriate tags embedded in the music files. That is where most of my art comes from. Then album and artist art can be scraped from online sources or NFO files with the location of the art, or manually set to locally held files.		Worth noting that basic album art (cover) can also be scanned from the appropriate tags embedded in the music files. That is where most of my art comes from. Then album and artist art can be scraped from online sources or NFO files with the location of the art, or manually set to locally held files.

			== Compilation albums ==

			Having a folder for every artist on the compilation is a CDart addon thing, not out the box Kodi. Kodi will not do anything with such folders.

DaveBlake: Don't forget embedded art

2017-07-01T08:06:36Z

Don't forget embedded art

New page

Is here a good place to comment? Giving it a go anyway.

Worth noting that basic album art (cover) can also be scanned from the appropriate tags embedded in the music files. That is where most of my art comes from. Then album and artist art can be scraped from online sources or NFO files with the location of the art, or manually set to locally held files.