User:Karellen/scratchpad
| Steps to create your Music Library |
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| 1. Main Page |
| 2. Music File Tagging |
| 3. Scanning Music Into Library |
| 4. Scraping Additional Music Information |
5. NFO Files
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6. Artwork
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| 7. Import-export library |
| 8. Rebuild your music library |
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 NFO_files |
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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 your Music library.
Each page is a step in the setup process, and those steps have been grouped into three main functions...
- Creating the Library - The initial creation of the library
- Modify your Library - Techniques to modify your library
- 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 also click each header to jump to that page.
Creating the Library
The following three pages will allow you to build your fully functioning library. They should be used in the listed order to ensure correct library implementation
- 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.
- Also known as Scanning. This page provides details on adding music sources to Kodi and scanning the songs into the library
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
- 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.
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.
- 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)
Rebuilding your library
- New page to be created
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| Next step: | Music File Tagging |