(2017-11-15, 01:39)Powerhouse Wrote: (2017-11-14, 23:55)Gilean Wrote: But the original problem still stands: How can I set up Kodi so that it does NOT require music video to be part of an album before it shows up in Music Video list? Naturally, some live videos that I have captured from TV for example, do not get matches and log file says "Unable to scrape body with refs" for those.
So the thing to remember is, that Music Videos are considered Videos (like Movies or TV Shows). If you follow the Youtube Video I linked above, it shows you how to add Music Videos to your library. Yes they will show up in your Music as well, but they will also have there own Video section (and if you have a skin that supports it, you can have a Music Video section on the Main Kodi Menu - Aeon MQ7 has this function).
The stuff you have captured from TV, should be named Artist - Music Video name.extension (example: Taylor Swift - Look What You Made Me Do.mp4). Then the .NFO for said video should look something like this...
<musicvideo>
<title>Look What You Made Me Do</title>
<artist>Taylor Swift</artist>
<album>Reputation</album>
<plot>"Look What You Made Me Do" is a electroclash and pop song, and lyrics that portrays various issues that built her reputation.</plot>
<runtime>3:31</runtime
<genre>Pop</genre>
<director></director>
<Label>Big Machine</Label>
<track>6</track>
<year>2017</year>
</musicvideo>
Yes, I had read all those but unfortunately they don't help in this :/ The requirement of that music videos absolutely have to "belong" in some album before they show up (under Music Videos root node) is something I would like to ignore somehow. Even in Youtube video that guy browsed his music videos only by song name - which is fine if you have handful of videos, but not when you have few thousand of them. I want to choose an artist, say AC/DC, and then get a list of ALL AC/DC music videos that I have in my music video folder. But when I choose the band, it then makes me select the album (all albums or certain one) and then shows either all music videos that belong in some album, or only those that belong to selected album. But not all music videos belong to any album and so they don't show up in this view. Other option could be to browse media sources straight, but since I have been using this folder system:
Music videos\A\AC-DC - song1
Music videos\A\AC-DC - song2
Music videos\A\Aerosmith - song 1
Music videos\B\Bon Jovi - song 1
etc...
and go to A-folder there, the result is mix of AC-DC and Aerosmith songs (and others where band name begins with A) listed alphabetically by song name, which is not what I want either if I want to browse through AC/DC-songs only, for example. :/
And of course I have plenty of files named as:
Aerosmith - Crying.mkv
Aerosmith - Crying (live).mkv
And I would like to see them both on music video list but that doesn't work before I manually edit all those live songs .nfo file and when I have around 1000 files to edit, that seems overwhelming to me.
I guess it's hard for me to accept how complicated handling media library is in Kodi compared to Mediaportal