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Requirements

As the Music section of Kodi has many differences to the Video section of Kodi, please read this section to ensure your music and artwork are correctly scraped and displayed.

nfo Placement

Music will fetch additional album and album artist information from nfo files.

For additional album information each album needs to be in its own unique folder, and have a separate album.nfo file located there. See the first table below.

For additional album artist information each artist needs a separate artist.nfo file located in what Kodi determines as the unique common folder for that artist. Kodi does not fetch additional artist data for artists that only feature on songs, either on compilation albums or as guest artists on songs in albums by others, and you do not have any albums by them in your collection.

Note: There are weaknesses in the way that Kodi determines the location of the artist folder. It looks for the folder that is common to all the songs with that album artist, the name of that folder is irrelevent. If you have multiple albums by an artist all under an artist folder then this works perfectly. However the algorithm does not work for collaboration albums, those that have more than one album artist e.g. "Riding with the King" by Eric Clapton and BB King, or classical music with composer, orchestra and conductor given as the album artist. Also if you have not kept all songs by an artist under a unique folder, then the artist directory will probably be mis-identified. The result is that Kodi can find the wrong artist.NFO file, and give the artist some other artist's information, or fail to fine the artist.nfo you created

Naming & Saving conventions for your Music Artist *.nfo files:

Saved Artist as	File Name	Save Location
Artist\Album\Songs	artist.nfo	f:\MyMusic\Stevie Nicks\artist.nfo

Naming & Saving conventions for your Music Album *.nfo files:

Saved Album as	File Name	Save Location
Artist\Album\Songs	album.nfo	f:\MyMusic\Stevie Nicks\Crystal Visions\album.nfo

Available nfo Tags

The following two tables list the available tags that can be used in each nfo file.

Artist NFO

NFO (xml) Tag	Required	Overwrites	Multiple	Notes
<name></name>	Yes	Yes	no	1
<musicBrainzArtistID></musicBrainzArtistID>	No	No	No	1
<genre></genre>	No	Yes	Yes	1, 2
<style></style>	No	No	Yes	2
<mood></mood>	No	No	Yes	2
<yearsactive></yearsactive>	No	No	Yes	2
<born></born>	No	No	No
<formed></formed>	No	No	No
<instruments></instruments>	No	No	No
<biography></biography>	No	No	No
<died></died>	No	No	No
<disbanded></disbanded>	No	No	No
<thumb preview="path"></thumb>	No	No	Yes
<fanart> <thumb preview="path"></thumb> </fanart>	No	No	Yes
<album> <title></title> <year></year> </album>	No	No	Yes

Notes
1	Will overwrite when prefer online info is enabled in Kodi settings
2	Where indicated, tags can accept an optional "clear" boolean (true/false) attribute which clears corresponding scraped data and all values of similar tags up to that point.

Album NFO

NFO (xml) Tag	Required	Overwrites	Multiple	Notes
<title></title>	Yes	Yes	No	1
<musicBrainzAlbumID></musicBrainzAlbumID>	No	Yes	No	1
<artistdesc></artistdesc>	Yes	Yes	No	1, 2
<genre></genre>	No	Yes	Yes	1, 2
<style></style>	No	Yes	Yes	1, 2
<mood></mood>	No	Yes	Yes	1, 2
<theme></theme>	No	Yes	Yes	1, 2
<compilation></compilation>	Yes	Yes	No	1
<review></review>	No	Yes	No	1
<type></type>	No	Yes	No	1
<releasedate></releasedate>	No	Yes	No	1
<label></label>	No	Yes	No	1
<thumb preview="path"></thumb>	No	No	Yes
<path></path>	Yes	No	No
<rating max="10"></rating>	No	Yes	No	1
<userrating max="10"></userrating>	No	No	No
<votes></votes>	No	Yes	No	1
<year></year>	No	Yes	No	1
<albumArtistCredits> <artist></artist> <musicBrainzArtistID></musicBrainzArtistID> </albumArtistCredits>	Yes	Yes	Yes	1
<releasetype></releasetype>	No	Yes	No	1
<track> <position></position> <title></title> <duration></duration> <musicBrainzTrackID></musicBrainzTrackID> </track>	Yes	Yes	Yes	1

Notes
1	Will overwrite when prefer online info is enabled in Kodi settings
2	Where indicated, tags can accept an optional "clear" boolean (true/false) attribute which clears corresponding scraped data and all values of similar tags up to that point.

Sample nfo Files

An example of the artist.nfo and the album.nfo are provided. Use these as a guide to create your own nfo files, or to determine errors in your own files.

Music Artist nfo

Sample Music Artist nfo

Music Album nfo

Sample Music Album nfo