2020-08-22, 10:06
If you use the music video section in the way it was designed to be used, everything works pretty well. That's to say, if you have individual videos of songs that all tie to an album (or albums) then it all works reasonably well. What I have found though is that it doesn't handle full concerts very well as they are not usually linked to an album.
This leads to problems such as :-
I have been looking at this recently because I think Kodi could do a better job with concerts whilst retaining the current behaviour with individual music videos that form part of an album.
My current WIP adds to the current behaviour as follows :-
Original video info dialog
New version
Original artist list showing one appearance by Kate Bush but clicking on her shows no video at all.
New version showing artist bio from music library and new link to video
I'm not entirely convinced that 'Non-album related' is indeed the best description to put there. Personally, I'd prefer 'Concerts' as in my case, that is exactly what they will be. Perhaps I should make that user definable ?
EDIT
The 'non-album related' is now a user-definable string which by default is set to 'other videos'. However, in cases like the above where there are no videos linked to albums, it won't be shown (the middle screenshot above will be skipped) and Kodi will go directly to the video(s) (as shown in the third screenshot above).
/EDIT
Anyway, just thought I would share what I have done so far and see what other peoples thoughts are. Maybe @HomerJau, @docwra, @scott967, @LongMan, @HeresJohnny might have some thoughts on the subject ?
This leads to problems such as :-
- Listing artists as appearing X times but showing no related videos when clicking on the artist.
- Having to navigate mainly by titles only to find a particular concert.
- No link-up with the music library for artist biography etc.
- No way to jump from the video info dialog to albums by the same artist.
I have been looking at this recently because I think Kodi could do a better job with concerts whilst retaining the current behaviour with individual music videos that form part of an album.
My current WIP adds to the current behaviour as follows :-
- Performers can be added (as actors) via a movie.nfo file.
- All performers involved in a music video/concert are listed in the info dialog and are searchable in the same way that actors are in movies.
- Videos/concerts not linked to an album are listed under a 'Non-album related' directory.
- Artist bio is fetched from the music library where available and displayed when navigating artists
- The artist list can be extended (via a setting) to list all the performers. Similar behaviour to album and song artists in the music library
Original video info dialog
New version
Original artist list showing one appearance by Kate Bush but clicking on her shows no video at all.
New version showing artist bio from music library and new link to video
I'm not entirely convinced that 'Non-album related' is indeed the best description to put there. Personally, I'd prefer 'Concerts' as in my case, that is exactly what they will be. Perhaps I should make that user definable ?
EDIT
The 'non-album related' is now a user-definable string which by default is set to 'other videos'. However, in cases like the above where there are no videos linked to albums, it won't be shown (the middle screenshot above will be skipped) and Kodi will go directly to the video(s) (as shown in the third screenshot above).
/EDIT
Anyway, just thought I would share what I have done so far and see what other peoples thoughts are. Maybe @HomerJau, @docwra, @scott967, @LongMan, @HeresJohnny might have some thoughts on the subject ?