Finally got to your stuff Troy, not lack of interest just lack of time and what I thought would be quick posts turning into long ones.
(2016-06-07, 19:59)deveng24 Wrote: i downloaded june 6 nightly build, cleared my library and re-ran..... some of the issues ive come across so far;
1) dates in the format of 6/12/2016 (sample) show as 6 in year node while 6-12-2016 are ok
2) Artist node Missing albums... artist Journey adds 3 albums out of 25 (i have just recently tagged this artist with MB... and only added the id3 tag for album sort)
3) various artists show 4 nodes of the same name with full albums in one of the 4 nodes.... 1 album split (im sure my tagging prob)
4) ive had to reload kodi...... would not run today and on reinstall im getting "error opining file for writing" so, ill have to uninstall completely and reinstall.
here are my log files and database files if you would like to have a look;
mymusic60
kodi log
Update: (item 2) the missing albums are located under the Main album node for Kodi but not under the main artist node under the respective artist (still looking around to see if the albums are in another artist node)
Update 2: (item 2) found the albums under artist Steve Auger (all items are freshly tagged with MB only edit was to id3 tag Album sort artist) only 1 album has a feat of steve Auger (Armageddon: The Album) i have check that the MB artist id is abd506e1-6f2b-4d6f-b937-92c267f6f88b and for Journey and only has a single artist.
1) date format issue I will come back to later (give me a few days then nudge me again)
4) "error opining file for writing" AFAIK only file written to is the debug log, so could that have been locked by something while looking at it or sending it to me? I hope that the reinstall sort things. The nightlies are changing all the time, not always for the better although that is the intention, so could have been a passing glitch.
2) & 3) Just took a quick peek, what a knotted db.... the 15 "Del A Sol" entries are my personal favorite
Be interesting to see if I can deduce what lead to all that without actually seeing the tagging. Whatever it is, it is happening a lot.
Edit: Well I started at the bottom, something I often do in situations like this...
Troy on the album "The Beginning of ZZ Top" am I correct that you have edited both the ALBUMARTIST and ARTIST tags on all the song files to read "ZZ Top"?
Meanwhile there are MUSICBRAINZ ARTIST ID tags for "American Blues", "Moving Sidewalks" and "Billy Gibbons" on the different songs. These are the artists that Picard would have correctly tagged the the songs with. The first time these mbids are scanned into Kodi it has no way to know that the artist name provided in that file does not go with the mbid. Hence you end up with 4 separate entries called "ZZ Top" and a different mbid each.
I have not dug further, but I suspect you have done this kind of edit many times. Troy there really is nothing Kodi can do if you tag your music files using Picard, adding mbid tags and matching artist names, and then edit the name tags and in so doing make the mbid tags completely invalid. Kodi has to presume that name and mbid when present go together.
Unfortunately unless you remove the mbid tags completely, or tag with both the mbids and artist names
that Picard provides together (undoing your edits) Kodi is not going to be able to build a coherent library with your music files.