[tOM_XB]

have been googling all over the place - can anyone advise on how to use/exploit all those useful looking music album/artist fields Kodi can recognize:

ie all that triva type stuff here:

http://kodi.wiki/view/NFO_files/Music#Mu...g_XML_data
(band formed date, instruments used, artist bio, label, etc)

obviously I've taken first steps and tagged files with Musicbrainz ... how about the rest .. is there any known way to scrape or a convenient manual way to get data into these fields (e.g. a 3rd party app that assists editing of these particular details)?

have read Kodi wikis, reddits, youtube vids etc but not seen much discussion ..

EDIT:
a related point, if I may - is the guidance in this section still relevant&working .. have tried simple pasting a link in a nfo file named 'album.nfo' but this doesn't seem to affect anything ..?

http://kodi.wiki/view/NFO_files/Music#Mu...ing_an_URL

[scott967]

What info you can get for an album or artist is dependent on the scraper you use. There's a couple different ones in the Kodi repo besides the default universal album and artist scrapers. Of course, that in turn requires adequate data in some crowd-sourced online data source.

Album.nffo and artist.nfo files only work if you organize your music files in a tree with album artists in their own folders (place artist.nfo file here), and the albums of each album artist in subfolders (place album.nfo here). This implies that all song files in the folder are from a single album, and also a single album artist for each album. If you have compilations or "featured" artists, no way to use artist.nfo files.

scott s.
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[tOM_XB]

hi Scott

thanks for this.

I'll have a look at what other scrapers can do, but the question was more about how I can use these and make the most of them. E.g. how they are useful in Kodi and how best to work with .nfo files outside of kodi.

EDIT: OK I see this has been asked already, and you responded: http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=301392

[docwra]

Yes you can use the scrapers, TheAudioDB stores pretty much all those fields. It even has its own dedicated scraper.

[tOM_XB]

ok thanks docwra .. I'll give it a go. My Kodi's in much better shape already.
cheers

[tOM_XB]

Yes you can use the scrapers, TheAudioDB stores pretty much all those fields. It even has its own dedicated scraper.

If an album does not appear on AudioDB is it possible to use URLs to source reviews from elsewhere?

E.g.
Would it possible to scrape e.g. a review from http://www.allmusic.com/album/bach-trios-mw0003020771 somehow by linking to it in the nfo - is this not what the nfo guide is suggesting:

--- from wiki ---

1.2.2 Albums
album.nfo in the album folder that points to the corresponding album page on a supported scraper site, such as Allmusic.com.
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg...foxqualdde

--- from wiki ---

[DaveBlake]

If an album does not appear on AudioDB is it possible to use URLs to source reviews from elsewhere?

That is how the wiki reads, but I don't think that is the case (happy for someone to correct me).

I'm working from the code, and there could be a bit of code that I have missed, but while Kodi uses web addresses for scraped art work, when it comes to the review/description it wants text not an address where text can be found.

But the Universal scraper can be given a fallback source for album info e.g. try TADB first, then try allmusic etc., have a look at the scraper settings. TADB scraper obviously only scrapes TADB

[tOM_XB]

yeah .. under universal scraper my settings for album reviews only allow for the audiodb (or 'none') .. unless anyone knows othewise I guess that's the extent of scraping possibilities for reviews for the moment ...

[docwra]

You can add albums to TADB yourself, and also copy and paste reviews from other sources. Just remember to credit them. Its all user generated, just sign up.

Adding the data will of course help others.

[tOM_XB]

thanks Docwra

yes will do. hopefully this feature will become more popular. I agreed on crediting, that should perhaps be mandatory on audiodb (for this purpose at least).