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Revision as of 00:22, 11 October 2017

Steps to create your Music Library
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1. Guide Main Page
2. Music Settings
3. Music File Tagging
4. Scanning Music Into Library
5. Artist information folder
6. Scraping Additional Music data

7. Update Music Library
8. NFO Files
8.1 Music NFO Files
9. Artwork
9.1 Music Artwork


10. Import-export library
10.1 Music Import-Export
11. Backup & Recover
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Aim

The aim of these modules is to provide the required information to enable you to correctly set up, modify, and reinstate your Music library as required. As this guide is created for the new user, most pages have been created with minimal jargon and short explanations in an effort to reduce information overload and confusion. Where extra information is provided, note is made to what can be safely ignored. This also applies the "See also:"type links

Each page is a step in that modules particular process, and those steps have been grouped into four modules...

  1. Prepare the files - Best practice guides to ensure your files are correctly saved and tagged
  2. Creating the Library - Guide for the initial creation of the library
  3. Modify your Library - Techniques to modify the information and artwork your library displays
  4. Safeguarding and Rebuilding - Backup and Rebuild your library


This guide uses the default Estuary skin. If you are using another skin, it is recommended you revert back to Estuary to ensure you are able to follow this guide easily. Location of settings and options differ between skins.
The Nav Box, located at the top right of the page, appears on every page listed in this guide. Use it to quickly jump between steps or return to this main page. On this page, you can click each header to jump to that page.

Preparing the Files

This section provides information to ensure your music files are correctly tagged, and the correct settings are enabled.

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Music Settings

Confirms the correct settings are enabled in your installed version of Kodi. Simply adjust your settings to match those of the images in Section 4. If you have not changed the default settings then there will be nothing to change here.


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Music File Tagging

Preliminary information detailing the requirements for your music files. This page contains important information about how the Music Library functions, the required folder structure and how to tag your music files. It is important that you read to at least the indicated point to avoid disasters in the following pages.


Creating the Library

The following two pages will allow you to build your fully functioning library. They must be used in the listed order to ensure correct library implementation

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Scanning music to the library

Also known as Scanning or Importing. This page provides details on adding music sources to Kodi and scanning the songs into the library.


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Scraping additional Music data

Music Scraping downloads additional information about the Artists and Albums in your library, as well as downloading any missing artwork. This step is optional, but if you choose to scrape, it must be performed after your music is Scanned into the library.


At this point you should have a fully functioning Music library full of information and artwork. When you feel there is need for a change, come back to this guide and continue with the remaining modules. We do recommend you take care to backup your library.


Modify your Library

Should you want more control over what information has been scraped, and what artwork has been downloaded, then continue with the following pages. They are listed in no particular order.

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NFO Files

NFO files are used to populate the music and video library using locally stored information. They are helpful if data for your particular title does not exist, such as for home movies and sporting events. A Parsing and Combination NFO file can be used to control the search behaviour of scrapers when problematic and ambiguous titles prevent your preferred title from being scraped.


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Artwork


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Library Update

Details on how to add new music to your existing library, or remove unwanted music from the library..




Safeguarding and Rebuilding

The following pages offer best practice to backup and restore your library. Note that these methods will not work after disaster has struck.

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Import-Export Library

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)


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Rebuilding your library

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