2024-03-17, 19:11
Update and loads media content into the library. For videos it will also scrape data as needed.
Cleanup removes media content no longer found in the source directory.
For music there doesn’t appear to be any scraping occurring when you load music into the library. This behavior is significantly different than videos.
If you go onto the Kodi server and edit your source directory for videos you can access the “set content” option from the context menu. This is where you configure the scraper for videos.
For music there is no set content feature. In order to scrape the artist and album information I had to go into the artist list and bring up the context menu in there then choose to scrape the artist info. Then I had to do the same for albums. Very very slow process.
Clearly a Kodi server issue but that is not user friendly at all. Most casual users are never going to figure this out.
From a user standpoint the most important things that should be easy to access are loading data into a library, cleaning the library, and scrapping meta data for your content.
As for the music and video scrappers yes they are technically addins but Kodi comes with some default ones.
Seems like this wouldn’t be a barrier to adding the json to run the scrapers for audio. I did not configure a single thing to scrape the audio metadata. Literally just selected scrape and it did its thing. Video is more complicated.
Cleanup removes media content no longer found in the source directory.
For music there doesn’t appear to be any scraping occurring when you load music into the library. This behavior is significantly different than videos.
If you go onto the Kodi server and edit your source directory for videos you can access the “set content” option from the context menu. This is where you configure the scraper for videos.
For music there is no set content feature. In order to scrape the artist and album information I had to go into the artist list and bring up the context menu in there then choose to scrape the artist info. Then I had to do the same for albums. Very very slow process.
Clearly a Kodi server issue but that is not user friendly at all. Most casual users are never going to figure this out.
From a user standpoint the most important things that should be easy to access are loading data into a library, cleaning the library, and scrapping meta data for your content.
As for the music and video scrappers yes they are technically addins but Kodi comes with some default ones.
Seems like this wouldn’t be a barrier to adding the json to run the scrapers for audio. I did not configure a single thing to scrape the audio metadata. Literally just selected scrape and it did its thing. Video is more complicated.
