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:Kodi does provide basic support for using cue sheets to define individual tracks when an entire CD has been ripped into a single music file. However the information provided by  the cue sheet standard is much more limited than that of standard tagging, hence to enjoy the full music library features it is recommended that tracks are ripped into separate files and fully tagged.
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Revision as of 00:05, 29 September 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 this collection of wiki pages is to provide the required information to enable you to correctly set up, modify, maintain 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 explanations in an effort to reduce information overload and confusion. Where extra information is provided, note is made to what can be safely ignored.

Each page is a step in the setup process, and those steps have been grouped into four main functions...

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


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.


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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 and differs from the Video Library. It also shows recommended Music Settings. It is important that you read to at least the indicated part to avoid disasters in the following pages.


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Cue Sheets

Cue Sheets are used to provide index and playlist information for a large audio file. They are generally used in conjunction with either extracting from, or burning to, Music AudioCD. Cue sheets have the file extension ".cue", and are simple plain text files.
Kodi does provide basic support for using cue sheets to define individual tracks when an entire CD has been ripped into a single music file. However the information provided by the cue sheet standard is much more limited than that of standard tagging, hence to enjoy the full music library features it is recommended that tracks are ripped into separate files and fully tagged.
If you do not use Cue Sheets you can safely move onto the next step. This item is intentionally omitted from the Nav Box



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. 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

Scraping the music library for additional artist and album information




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

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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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Next step: Music File Tagging