[mkortstiege]

Isn't this related to the different thumb loaders used (music vs video) ?

[LongMan]

I tried Nightlies [b]8f7a07c-Isengard and 42b1f08-Isengard[/b] but neither seems to contain fix. The PR was merged to Master with a Needs Backport label. Are these the right builds or should I be waiting for a build of Master, or Isengard after the BackPort has been done.

Cheers LongMan

[scott967]

Isn't this related to the different thumb loaders used (music vs video) ?

Don't know. Just know that in Helix and prior when you open a musicvideo artist view container, if the artist exists and has thumb/fanart in the music library that $INFO[ListItem.Art(poster)] returns the thumb for the artist. Doesn't work in Isengard. Same thing for artist fanart. Sounds like a different problem I was assuming it had similar cause in change in video database.

scott s.
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[scott967]

I tried Nightlies [b]8f7a07c-Isengard and 42b1f08-Isengard[/b] but neither seems to contain fix. The PR was merged to Master with a Needs Backport label. Are these the right builds or should I be waiting for a build of Master, or Isengard after the BackPort has been done.

Cheers LongMan

This: Github PRs I guess shows you everything that has been fixed for 15.0 RC2. Apparently there aren't going to be any windows builds from master/(JaselHoff?) so you would have to build your own to test until it gets committed to RC2.

scott s.
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[mkortstiege]

@LongMan it's not yet backported. Once https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/7467 is merged the next days Isengard nightly build will contain the fix.

[LongMan]

Great. Thanks

[Powerhouse]

So did these fixes make it into the final Isengard v15?

[LongMan]

Yes they did.

[scott967]

It all works as in Kodi 14 AFAICT.

scott s.
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[LongMan]

I may have spoken out of turn. There were a number of items discussed here. The ones I was speaking of are the artist grouping in playlists and tags. Both are in Isengard. The other items that were discussed I am not sure about.

Cheers.

[scott967]

I may have spoken out of turn. There were a number of items discussed here. The ones I was speaking of are the artist grouping in playlists and tags. Both are in Isengard. The other items that were discussed I am not sure about.

Cheers.

In addition two problems I found that were corrected in 15.0 release

1. Unable to select video/musicvideos/artist view. This was a fallout from the first attempt to fix the artist grouping IIRC. Fixed by PR #7493

2. When viewing musicvideo artists, in Kodi 14 artist thumb and fanart form the music library were displayed. Fixed by PR #7511

scott s.
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[DarkHelmet]

The fanart issue is not completely solved though. As soon as you leave the artist view level the fanart is gone. Pick an artist from the artist view and you'll get the album view with no fanart. In song view of an album the fanart is also gone.

In the "pure album view" (i.e. go from library directly to the list of album) the album thumb is not displayed`(fanart also not showing).

In "pure titles view" (listing all music videos) the album thumbs get displayed but also no fanart.

[DarkHelmet]

Hello,
A fix would be very nice. And also if Kodi could read the Tags from the mp4-files. Then i have not to write nfo-files for every file which are not found by the scrapper.

Thanks

DerEntwickler

It also would be great to list the musicvideos within the music artist list. So i can see all singles, albums and videos of a artists at the same place.

example: Music -> Artists -> Madonna -> singles, videos, albumname 1, albumname 2, etc

This requires IMO a link between actorID from video database and artistID from music database.

In the moment you will only see singles and albums.

DerEntwickler

I'd also like to support these notions from the first postings of the thread, especially the one with the "centralized access to music and music videos" on an artist level. There is a shortcut in the menu for every artists, which has music and music videos in both libraries but It's not obvious since it's hidden in the menu and requires additional clicks.

And btw, isn't this rather a feature request than a development issue?

[scott967]

The fanart issue is not completely solved though. As soon as you leave the artist view level the fanart is gone. Pick an artist from the artist view and you'll get the album view with no fanart. In song view of an album the fanart is also gone.

In the "pure album view" (i.e. go from library directly to the list of album) the album thumb is not displayed`(fanart also not showing).

In "pure titles view" (listing all music videos) the album thumbs get displayed but also no fanart.

AFAIK, musicvideo views have always worked like this. In "titles" you get thumb, poster, and fanart from the folder containing the file. Default thumb is an extracted screenshot if you have that set in settings (video/file lists/extract thumbnails and video information). In most skins if no poster is set the thumb gets shown.

In all other views there is no art, except for artists you get the poster and fanart from the music library if it exists. I don't know of any way to get an album cover to display.

scott s.
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[Powerhouse]

So maybe some pictures would help this thread out a little more. This is Windows 7 x64 running Kodi 15 Final (Clean Install), using the AEON MQ5 Skin that was made to work with Kodi 15 (thanks Scott967).

Artists view...
http://imgur.com/LTyA3X1
http://i.imgur.com/LTyA3X1.jpg

Artists view level 2...
http://imgur.com/1GNtohH
http://i.imgur.com/1GNtohH.jpg

Artists view level 3...
http://imgur.com/3xsO2V2
http://i.imgur.com/3xsO2V2.jpg

Music Videos folder contents...
http://imgur.com/z9f5zJ8

Sample .nfo file...

<musicvideo>
<title>Sugar We're Goin Down</title>
<artist>Fall Out Boy</artist>
<album>From Under the Cork Tree</album>
<plot></plot>
<genre>Pop</genre>
<genre>Pop Rock</genre>
<director></director>
<composer></composer>
<studio>Island</studio>
<year>2005</year>
<top250>0</top250>
<track>4</track>
<runtime>3:49</runtime>
</musicvideo>

As you can see, everything is blank until the final level is reached.