2018-04-24, 18:47
No worrys @Powerhouse , for backwards compatibility v18 continues to support looking for local art from an Artist/Album folder structure, in fact it does so while avoiding many of the errors and issues that used to cause odd art in unexpected places. No doubt skins and addons will continue to use "Extrafanart" subfolders.
But for a robust and liberated future, that handles all the "corner issues" such as
a) music from an artist located across more than one music source
b) albums that are collaborations with more than one album artist e.g. composer, conductor, orchestra
c) art for artists that are not album artists
d) more than one artist with the same name e.g. John Williams (guitarist or composer of film music),
I hope that users (and addons) will move to using a nominated Artist Info Folder for artist art and NFO files.
It also keeps your music folders clear of clutter e.g. image files, and extra folders with just images that some addons create.
Then the albums can be under whatever folder structure a user likes to use, many will still use some kind of artist folders, but it could just as well be genre, or year or "my stuff", "kids stuff", "Party music" etc.
But for a robust and liberated future, that handles all the "corner issues" such as
a) music from an artist located across more than one music source
b) albums that are collaborations with more than one album artist e.g. composer, conductor, orchestra
c) art for artists that are not album artists
d) more than one artist with the same name e.g. John Williams (guitarist or composer of film music),
I hope that users (and addons) will move to using a nominated Artist Info Folder for artist art and NFO files.
It also keeps your music folders clear of clutter e.g. image files, and extra folders with just images that some addons create.
Then the albums can be under whatever folder structure a user likes to use, many will still use some kind of artist folders, but it could just as well be genre, or year or "my stuff", "kids stuff", "Party music" etc.
