Adding music to the library
Fixing your tags
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Preparing your database for scanning is the most time consuming portion of getting it up and running. A tutorial has been written on a piece of software called tag&rename. Tag&rename will write id3 v1 and v2, wma, ogg, ape, and flac tags with information fetched from amazon.com, and cddb. Ive found it the most efficent way to tag albums and fetch album art thumbnails. If others have other options please notify loto on irc.efnet.info #xbmc |
Tags that dont support embedded cover art images
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Ape, Ogg, and Flac tags do not support embedded images. To have files of these formats display an image you must either flag the directory a single image by naming an image folder.jpg and placing it inside the directory or if, for example you have song.ogg you must name the image (jpg or png format) song.tbn. For more information on thumbnails see the Thumbnails portion of the manual |
Scanning your music
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To start scanning your music change the my music view to 'files'. Then proceed to browse to the location of your music collection and press the while button. This shows the context menu with various options. Select the entry labeled "Scan folder to database". XBMC will then proceed to scan the music in the background. Once this is complete you can browse your collection but changing the view to 'Library' Note that scanning in this example would scan all directories listed including full albums, singles, and unsorted |
