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So I just installed the latest version of Kodi and have a few questions. I use JRiver but wanted to give Kodi a try. I've been playing around for awhile and just can't figure it out.
1. I'm not getting any Artist thumbnails. I do see thumbnails for the album art but not the artist. In JRiver all my artists are showing thumbnails. Not sure what needs to be done to enable this.
2. Is it possible to edit the music library within Kodi? For some odd reason I have an artist showing up two diff ways, one Sam Roberts and the other Same Roberts Band. In JRiver I can simply select Tag and change that with JRiver.
I guess that's it for now. Any assistance would greatly be appreciated!
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Hi thanks for the help. I tried to "Query information for all" but it doesn't do anything. Does it matter if my music is mostly FLAC? I noticed some were tagged but I think they were the very few that are mp3. Do I need to tag them with an external editor first?
Also, when it does download the artwork, is that stored locally or where my music is stored, for ex a NAS? I'd like to store the thumbnails locally to keep things speedy.
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I'm having a horrible time with importing music in Kodi. I went through and tagged all my music via Musicbrainz. I double checked all my music and it looks good. I imported and I'm getting tons of artists I don't have but are somehow attached to the album...I guess. For ex I imported my Beatles files. I made sure Artist and all other Artist fields are The Beatles. When importing I'm getting all sorts of artists such as Billy Preston, George Martin, etc....If I click on the artist it shows me an album and song that is also in the Beatles Library in Kodi.
So under the Beatles, I have Abbey Road, as well under George Martin I have Abbey Road.
If I go to Musicbrainz and check the tags for the songs for Abbey Road, they all see The Beatles....WTH? My library now has hundreds of extra artists...very frustrating!
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Ok, removed the source and reimported without querying info from online. That did the trick and the artist and folders are in the proper order however now I'm not getting any Artist pictures, just the icons. The albums do show the cover art though. I tried hitting "c" on the keyboard and queried info for artists, but that just starting creating multiple artist entries again like I had above. So had to remove the library again.
How can I get artist photos to show up instead of icons?
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I can't find the folder you indicated for artwork, I have no Kodi Userdata folder that I can see. I can view hidden files and folders so that's not it. There must be a place where it's storing all the artist photos when I select to query all artist info...
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Actually that doesn't do the trick. I already have that turned off...
I removed my entire library by clicking on it and selected Remove Source. I also ran a Clean Library. Exit and went back in. My Artists are still showing...Exited Kodi again and renamed my library, then went back into Kodi and updated library and cleaned it. Everything is gone.
So, tried importing a single artist folder within my library which has two subfolders which are an album each. When I did so I got a bunch of strange items under Artist. Three artists which show just as a number such as d-010c-4dc4-afcc. Then I also got my artist name showing up twice. With one album showing up twice, once under each artist.
I'm starting to think I should have maybe stayed with JRiver. I've spent 3 whole days working on my music library and can't get it to work...I'll stick with it for a bit more but boy does this seem really difficult...
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I think we're all guessing really until you can turn on debugging, scan something to your library again, and then post the debug log here. I know it's not much consolation but this is a very unusual experience and not typical of a new kodi set up.
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I posted a question in the MB forums. Funny thing is I can't remove any of the MB tags nor clear them out.