2015-12-01, 22:12
1. Maybe change sort order as it correctly shows in my setup
2. Kodi doesn't touch your files and write data back into the files
2. Kodi doesn't touch your files and write data back into the files
(2015-12-01, 22:10)hansolo77 Wrote: I'm going through my music now that I'm on vacation in an attempt to resolve my issues. I'm going through my artists, one at a time. Properly tag with MusicBrainz then go back over it with MP3Tag (for some strange reason, MB doesn't save the genre..?). After everything looks like it should be correct, I then move them all to a temporary folder and add that folder into Kodi's Library. Check each album out, and if everything looks correct, I remove them from the library and move the files to a new permanent location. Now for the new issues:
1 - Multi-Disk albums. I'm up to the letter C and have my first multi-disk release. It has 4 disks. MusicBrainz correctly tagged it, identifying each track to each disk, and saved them out into a sub-folder for each disk.
(2015-12-01, 22:10)hansolo77 Wrote: 2 - Read-Only. It looks like Kodi has some pretty power scrapers to go in and identify the various things about my music
(2015-12-01, 22:10)hansolo77 Wrote: 3 - MusicBrainz. This is also related to #2. When I go through and get my music tagged and renamed, it saves the tag data for track numbers without zero padding. It's getting old having to go through and re-tag everything again to get those zero's in place. Is there a way to configure MB to include those? Also, MB doesn't seem to save the Genre tags in my music. I know their database has that information, because when I search for an album through the web, I can see the Genre just fine. Any ideas why it's not scraping and saving that information in my tags?
(2015-12-08, 05:03)hansolo77 Wrote: I'd still like some help figuring out why MusicBrainz tags everything without a Genre even though it has Genre fields in the website databases.
Quote:I came across some more of the types of issues I was originally having. Where a single album will actually be listed multiple times when browsing the library via Artist. The big example I gave and can still confirm happens is "The Lion King Soundtrack". This was a joint work by Elton John and Hans Zimmer. I don't have a problem with that... the problem comes from when Kodi displays the album for both artists. If you look at the track listings from MusicBrainz (link) it shows the album artist as "Elton John & Hans Zimmer". Yet the track lists shows Elton John only did 3 songs (although he was the composer of most of them), Hans Zimmer did 4, and the rest are made up of other various artists. So, I would think a true album artist should be "Various Artists". Yet because MusicBrainz has identified them both, that's how it's been tagged. Now on the Kodi side of things, I think because it has an ampersand (&), it suddenly thinks this is 2 separate artists and lists them both individually. I think the solution to my problem would be if there was a way for Kodi to recognize this as a SINGLE artist rather than two.
Quote:Another example of this is with "The Labyrinth Soundtrack". Here we see "David Bowie / Trevor Jones" with a front slash (/) rather than the ampersand (&) however the same thing happens when sorting by artist. The album lists for both artists, rather than Kodi identifying this as a single combined artist.
Quote:Am I just being anal about this for no reason?I had better not comment
Quote:Since all of my music is complete albums, I don't want to have to go through pages and pages of artists to find a specific one I want to listen to because they were jointly associated with the same album. I just want to see 1 artist, or have the album listed under a joint artist name rather than multiple times under different artists. I suspect this is either an overlooked setting somewhere in Kodi, or a feature not implemented I'd need to add to a request list somewhere. The other side of this issue is with getting extra album art like wall paper, and artist images. Where it works now, the combined artist schema would probably NOT work. So maybe this is one reason to leave it the way it is. I dunno.
(2015-12-09, 00:42)hansolo77 Wrote: As you can see, there are 2 listings for the artists known as "Mark Mancina & Phil Collins". They are exactly the same, and each one has exactly the same album in it and nothing else. There is no reason for it to be listed twice. The only reason I can explain for this behavior is because Kodi believes they are 2 separate artists. But they should listed once for "Mark Mancina" (and it should SAY Mark Mancina) and one for "Phil Collins" (and it should SAY Phil Collins) if that is the case. Instead, I have to listings of the exact same artist. This is the issue that's troubling me.
(2015-12-09, 16:28)hansolo77 Wrote: What program would I need to use to view/edit those fields? Mp3Tag doesn't really show that.