(2018-01-19, 11:31)Epg1 Wrote: I see your point, but I've some album which would be better not to split in tracks, i.e. Pink Floyd albums and others.
Since the player plays gapless, splitting Pink Floyd albums into tracks really isn't an issue. Why not try it and see?
Actually I am at a loss to see what advantages single file per album gives. I guess it
could be a way to add silent gaps between tracks, except the player does not process INDEX 00 cue sheet statements so you would not get gaps when played using Kodi.
(2018-01-19, 11:31)Epg1 Wrote: I've tried to change scraper in Kodi: TheAudioDB scraper recognize the tracklist and, consequently, it is fully shown in the information window in all the case the Universal Album Scraper fails (just a few cases, Universal Album Scaper recognize almost all my *.cue + *.flac | *.ape albums showing proper tracklists). I don't know how theAudioDB scraper works, but it does the magic trick
Display of a scraped tracklist is being deprecated in v18, the album info dialog will instead show the list of songs from that album
that you have in your library. Some skins alreday do this.
As Olympia said the TADB scraper looks up release group (not release) by album name and artist, it does not know about the various releases that can have different track listings and just gives the one list of tracks that it has. This may or may not match the release that you have. No magic, just luck that it is what you want.
(2018-01-19, 11:31)Epg1 Wrote: Just a question about Universal Album Scaper: what is parsed by the scaper? The Cuesheet file, the tags in the single *.flac (or *.ape) or both?
Neither.
Unlike video the music scrapers do not scrape files, they fetch additional info for
library items - artists or albums. The Universal Album Scraper is given the Musicbrainz release id, if it is known for the album from music file tags or NFO file, and accurately fetches the album info based on that. If Musicbrainz release id is not known then it first looks up Musicbrainz release id based on album name and artist(s), takes the first matching answer (that may or may not be the release you have), and then fetches the album info.
The library entries are created by scanning the limited standard data from the cuesheet file. The existence of a cue sheet takes preference over any tags embedded in the single file itself.
(2018-01-19, 11:31)Epg1 Wrote: Parsing CATALOG or ISRC (official keywords in cuesheet) in the cuesheet would help?
I have not seen anywhere thats says those are official cuesheet keywords, and no the music scanner (nothing to do with scraper) does not process those cue sheet entries. They are not held in the library, and are not keys to any of the online sources AFAIK. So no, it would not help at all.
You have clear choices: use an album.nfo file, or split into separate music files tagged with mbids (my prefered solution).