2016-08-07, 10:29
(2016-08-07, 07:07)HomerJau Wrote: What I'd like to do is just 'scan' the 'Music Videos' folder on my NAS with Kodi and it would recognise each concert folder as an 'album' and group each folder's files as its songs (much the same as scanning audio albums into Kodi's music library, except there's no tags. But since it is a 'concert' then use the file names as the song titles.
The difficulties begin in that the music library is based upon scanning music file tags. It can read tag data from mp4 files, so I am guessing that if you tagged your music videos then it could scan thing into the library. I say guessing because I have no media to test with and I have never tried. In many ways parsing path and file names to guess the content and then hope to lookup info online, like video has to, would be a backward step for music.
I know that some people dream of just throwing media at Kodi, and some audio fingerprint software automatically identifying it and completing all the details;. maybe, one day.... Meanwhile there are plenty using off line systems, or with obscure music, and the control freaks like myself that tag specifically to get a library organised as we like.
Quote:Dave, is there anything you can provide regarding support for grouping music videos in current Kodi 16 or upcoming 17 please?
Changes/fixes to v16 are frozen, and v17 is now beta so there are limits on what can be added (with 2 Kodi releases a year the deadlines come around fast). So tbh the answer is no, I don't think so.
Perhaps make your music videos more like music by tagging them? I don't know that will work, or even if you can do that, but I think it is the quickest path forward. IMO video would benefit from better tagging use too.
