2019-06-10, 19:50
Just upgraded from a fairly old (think it was around v15) version to what I think must be v18. I do find the new interface very complicated and difficult to use, but luckily there was the option to get back a more familiar skin with Confluence, which has helped to some extent.
The problems I am having are adding my content.
Music videos went in ok - no problem
Movies went in ok, no problem.
Tv Shows, I found that it wont scan recursively now - I have TV Shows/Genre/Show title. I realise you are not supposed to have the files grouped into genre folders but it is easier for me to organise this way, and it always used to work no problem - I just went to each genre folder (example: Crime) and scanned that genre folder in. Only twenty or so folders to do so not too much of a problem. However this doesn't seem to work now - I just get Kodi looking up "Crime...something or other" (in this particular example) and have to go to the show folder below - it took a long time to do it this way but I finally got there. Now I have trouble again, somehow I deleted the tvShows library and now I cannot get to rescan anything.
But the biggest problem is with Music. Having just spent an age putting my music into the correct fashion (I used to just view in file mode which was pretty good as I have folder artworks and each album was on its own). Now I have the albums as Artist/Album title but that was all just screwed up by the scraper thinking my "various artist" was all separate albums - the whole thing went into a mess and I tried to delete it - which I did once by removing the source. But I added some albums in one at a time that I now cannot get rid of no matter how I try. I'm trying to rescan in all the albums (I removed the offending compilation album and want to see what's what now) but I can't get it to do anything. I spent nearly a week trying to get this to work, it was all fine before - I guess if it aint broke don't try to fix it. I'm hating this new Kodi so much - can anyone advise if I can get back to the old vesrion that just worked? Or any way to delete the music and rescan? It's making me ill!
thanks
The problems I am having are adding my content.
Music videos went in ok - no problem
Movies went in ok, no problem.
Tv Shows, I found that it wont scan recursively now - I have TV Shows/Genre/Show title. I realise you are not supposed to have the files grouped into genre folders but it is easier for me to organise this way, and it always used to work no problem - I just went to each genre folder (example: Crime) and scanned that genre folder in. Only twenty or so folders to do so not too much of a problem. However this doesn't seem to work now - I just get Kodi looking up "Crime...something or other" (in this particular example) and have to go to the show folder below - it took a long time to do it this way but I finally got there. Now I have trouble again, somehow I deleted the tvShows library and now I cannot get to rescan anything.
But the biggest problem is with Music. Having just spent an age putting my music into the correct fashion (I used to just view in file mode which was pretty good as I have folder artworks and each album was on its own). Now I have the albums as Artist/Album title but that was all just screwed up by the scraper thinking my "various artist" was all separate albums - the whole thing went into a mess and I tried to delete it - which I did once by removing the source. But I added some albums in one at a time that I now cannot get rid of no matter how I try. I'm trying to rescan in all the albums (I removed the offending compilation album and want to see what's what now) but I can't get it to do anything. I spent nearly a week trying to get this to work, it was all fine before - I guess if it aint broke don't try to fix it. I'm hating this new Kodi so much - can anyone advise if I can get back to the old vesrion that just worked? Or any way to delete the music and rescan? It's making me ill!
thanks