2020-05-19, 08:54
Yes I have fix in v19 nightly and backported to 18.7 that makes merging scaped album data more robust, so if a scraper does fail to return artist Kodi won't wipe it. The scraper is being fixed too (Musicbrainz xml results had changed making the pasring miss returning artist).
Meanwhile users of other Kodi releaes and scraper versions simply disable "Prefer online information".
Actually I want to review that setting in v19, what it was originally intended for (auto sync with edits on the Musicbrainz site) was never fully implemented, then it got adjusted to do something different (without clear understanding of the original intent), then "fixed" (adjusted again by me to stop it breaking things). In one sense I would just like to remove it and draw a line under the history of confusion, however I need to take care I am not removing some functionality people are using.
Meanwhile users of other Kodi releaes and scraper versions simply disable "Prefer online information".
Actually I want to review that setting in v19, what it was originally intended for (auto sync with edits on the Musicbrainz site) was never fully implemented, then it got adjusted to do something different (without clear understanding of the original intent), then "fixed" (adjusted again by me to stop it breaking things). In one sense I would just like to remove it and draw a line under the history of confusion, however I need to take care I am not removing some functionality people are using.
