Hey Giftie, et. al. I have a very large music library and have been scanning, rescanning, deleting the db, rescanning, etc. for the last 3 weeks and I am getting weary. XBMC sees my library as follows: ARTISTS = 7,822, ALBUMS: 4,536 and SONGS: 73,553. This is a very-well tagged library using Tag & Rename. I am new to XBMC and just recently replaced an old HTPC with a new Win 8 machine and decided to enter the XBMC world. My scans in cdART Manager take forever as you can imagine, and I am dizzy from reading forums, wikis, lifehacker, etc. So far, cdART Manager has grabbed 998 cdART files for my albums (I hand-made ~150 of these and manually placed them in my music library and also in my cdART backup directory as I couldn't get cdART Manager to grab them via the MBID it was showing for them - haven't quite been able to manually get cdART Manager to grab "stuff" via MBIDs within the add-on interface yet as I am unsure of the steps. I usually do something like REFRESH MBIDs or FIND MISSING ALBUM MBIDs and then go over to CHANGE ALBUM MBIDs and start navigating down the list, find an album, click on it, select the AUTO option and usually choose the one on the top of the list with 100% match and then I am lost after that. Sometimes the album gets removed from the "master" list and then sometimes nothing at all happens, maybe because there is a scan happening in the background for MBIDs simultaneously. Anyways, I have not been able to get any of my missing cdART from the balance of my albums, not sure what to do, but maybe my logs can give you some insight becuase I am probably making spaghetti out of my system(s) - I also have a Mac Pro 1,1 with same exact library and setup. Both systems have a RAID attached where I keep ALL media. I am trying to keep as much art, media, etc off the system drives and both have the same file & folder structure where the music library is the same location and each album folder has folder.jpg for the cover art, trying to get the cdART.pngs in there and the only other file I have is an album review.txt file from old AllMusic days when tagged using Tag & Rename, so each of my albums has an embedded review in comments field and an embedded cover art as well in each music file throught my entire library.
I have a master XBMC Media folder that contains a MUSIC folder, cdART Manager folder and an XBMC ART folder (this last one was created by ARTWORK ORGANIZER add-on which did not like it when I first tried to put cdART manager content within this folder; ARTWORK Manager kept wiping-out all the cdART Manager stuff).Again, identical on both machines, cdART Manager stuff is pathed like this: [localRAIDVolume]\XBMC Media\cdART Manager\ where I have 2 subfolder: cdART for the cdART png backups and the pngs are named ARTIST - ALBUM.png and the other folder is Music Library Art for the music artist library stuff; extrafanarts, logo.png, folder.jpg for Artist thumbs
Skin on both machines is Transparency! - XBMC has been barking lately about this skin where it was broken, then an update is available, but I get a script error when trying to update it. I temporarily switched over to Confluence and XBMC was still barking at me saying that Transparency dependencies weren't met. I have been able to switch back over to Transparency! and I still get the occasional dependencies not met dialog in XBMC
XBMC log
http://xbmclogs.com/show.php?id=24932
Sorry for the long post, I'm new, weary, spinning my wheels and looking for some input/help/assistance. Believe me, it is very much appreciated (I do not know anyone personally to discuss this stuff with, so any help/tips/suggestions are gold to me right now). Thanks!