To answer the original question:
I doubt I have a standard setup, but it makes sense for me, and it's still a work in progress.
I have 3 primary folders for music:
1) "Complete" - These are full albums painstakingly OCD tagged with Picard.
2) "Singles + Various" - these are artists who I only have a few songs from, as well as any various artists albums. These are kept separate from "Complete" for Headphones purposes (I don't want new releases from these artists)
3) "_downloaded" - this folder is new downloads that I have not tagged yet (mostly from Headphones)
Each of these has a folder structure of: \Artist\Album\01 filename.mp3
folder.jpg is added for every single album folder. When I was tagging everything with picard initially, I made sure that every album had artwork. I ran scripts to find missing folder.jpg's, and created scripts to scrape the info, and did a bunch of manual searches as well.
for 1 and 2, I am in the works of moving everything to local nfo. This is because - I guess much of my media is not particularly popular, so there were a lot of artists with missing fanart and bios. In order to get a baseline of data, I used
CDArt Manager, and I exported the database file from Kodi. Next, I needed to fill in any gaps, which I did with scripts that scraped bing for large artist images and logos, which I sifted through and confirmed. The fanarts were resized to the correct proportions using
birme. Since I did this in bulk, they are probably not perfectly cropped, but better than nothing. Then I used some more scripting to get all artist tags from Last.fm to use as artist genres (which I tidied up) and I also scraped any bios that were missing from the database. Then I used this info along with the exported database info to create individual nfo files following
this - the only tags I skipped were <thumb> and <album>
Why in the world did I do all this work? Primarily for the following 4 reasons:
1) I wanted multiple genres for each artist (main reason why I'm using local artist nfo files)
2) I wanted to have artwork for every album (main reason why I'm using local album data)
3) I wanted bios for each artist
4) I wanted fanart for each artist
I just stumbled upon this thread, because I'm still in the process of doing this. I just placed all the nfo files into the artist folders and will be running a scan to see if everything is working correctly. I did not create album nfo files, because I believe all of that is included within my tags.
Mainly, it was because I was realizing that
set content and scan isn't available for music. Since I keep new music in a separate folder, I would like to be able to scan that path using scrapers, and the other 2 directories to only use local data. I do the exact same thing with movies and tv, so when I just discovered I can't do that with music, I was a bit disappointed.
