[HolgerKuehn]

Hi VonMagnum,

However, both versions of 17.4 seem to have an issue adding new titles here. If I add a new movie to my hard drive and tell KODI to scan it from "files" it does nothing at all unless I either wait (long time for over 700 titles) until it shows a "picture" (i.e. it's scanning for total play time and basic information in the directory) for it or if I play a bit of it first (then scan works). It did not have this problem in 17.3 here. I could manually select a file immediately and scan it with no issue. It also does not seem to have this issue if I scan an entire directory at once, but only with the right context menu "scan file into library"). I don't know if a new install has this issue or it's an "upgrade" issue (I've seen issues before with KODI initially scanning and not showing "HD" or "SD" until I actually play a file whereas it normally scans them immediately and they show up one by one just by entering a directory.

I think it might be better to splitt your Post in two parts, to get better answers. The first part about audio should stay here, but the one I quoted, should get into a new thread.
I had no issue with scanning whole directories at once, but the pictures and metadata would be collected after finishing the scan and only showing up one afer another later on.