2015-03-21, 11:01
(2015-03-19, 21:25)Squall13 Wrote:(2015-03-19, 18:13)gibxxi Wrote: Because when Kodi scrapes your music collection, that's where it expects to see your folder.jpg's and cdart.png's. It won't assign that artwork if it's placed anywhere else. Other types of artwork aren't handled by Kodi directly, but by skins/plugins you have installed.
Ok I understand. Too bad it works that way. I wanted only the actual music files in my folders.
Thanks for the explanation. Appreciate it.
Trust me, I feel your pain. However, by having the folder.jpg's and cdart.pngs in-folder with your music you do gain compatibility with other devices. OK, not a lot of devices will be able to display the cdart.pngs (mainly transparency support issues) properly, but I have owned many mp3 players and other devices in the past that would not read embedded album art (i.e: art in the mp3 tag), but would successfully pick up folder.jpgs that were in the folder with the music.
What you CAN move to a separate folder to keep your library clean, is anything that doesn't fall under the above two file-types. That includes all fanart, logos, artist thumbs, etc, etc. Obviously, the caveat here is that for add-ons / skins that use this extra art, you need to specify your "library" folder as the folder where you've moved that art to, and not your main music library folder. Some add-ons / skins don't specify in a clear way that this is the folder they are looking for, so YMMV.