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Video Library

Music Library

Import-export library

See also: NFO files, Artwork, and Backup

Introduction

Import-Export Contents
	Import-Export Music Library; Video Library; ; Return to Music Guide; Return to Video Guide;

Kodi has the option to Export and Import the library databases. These options may be used for a number of reasons including the following more popular ones:

Perform database backup and recovery
Reorganization of data or eliminate database fragmentation (export, clean/remove database, re-import)
Move data between Kodi databases on different platforms (eg Widows to Linux)

Music Library

This page details how to Import and Export the Music Library.

See: Import-Export Music Library

Video Library

This page details how to Import and Export the Video Library which consists of:

Movies- Metadata and artwork
TV Shows- Metadata and artwork
Music Videos- Metadata and artwork

See: Import-Export Video Library

Note: You cannot selectively Import or Export parts of the database.

A Note on Artwork

Cached artwork is an optimized version of the original image and this is what Kodi exports, rather than the original full-quality image, so it is best to avoid exporting artwork if at all possible.

To download original artwork to save locally use one of the following addons...

Artwork Dump- for v19 and later
Artwork Beef- for v18 and earlier

An explanation of the effects of these optimizations can be located in the forum here.

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