2016-07-26, 21:45
I'll answer this here, but I wonder if the mods could merge this with the AS support thread at http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=124880?
With 2.0 the decision was made (with input from some of the Kodi folks) that AS would no longer try and find a MusicBrainzID for an artist. AS was generating a huge amount of traffic and causing significant issues for the MusicBrainz folks. For music in the library you can using something like MusicBrainz Picard to add the tags and update your library. Once you do that you can use any of the image services to get images.
For music that is not tagged (and music from streaming services), the only image service you can use to download music is htbackdrops (for images, for artist bio, you're limited to last.fm). AS will find any local (or already downloaded images), it just won't download from those other services unless Kodi has the MBID.
Unfortunately, htbackdrops is currently offline. So for non-tagged and streaming music, you aren't going to be able to download anything. The only alternative is to go to those empty directories and create a musicbrainz.nfo file. In that file you would put the MBID from the MusicBrainz site. With that AS can download from the other two image services.
Having said all that, I have released a beta of 2.0.1 that adds artist name searching using theaudiodb. If you continue to have issues, I'd suggest you post in the thread I mentioned at the beginning. I'd also need a debug log with both Kodi and AS debug logging turned on.
With 2.0 the decision was made (with input from some of the Kodi folks) that AS would no longer try and find a MusicBrainzID for an artist. AS was generating a huge amount of traffic and causing significant issues for the MusicBrainz folks. For music in the library you can using something like MusicBrainz Picard to add the tags and update your library. Once you do that you can use any of the image services to get images.
For music that is not tagged (and music from streaming services), the only image service you can use to download music is htbackdrops (for images, for artist bio, you're limited to last.fm). AS will find any local (or already downloaded images), it just won't download from those other services unless Kodi has the MBID.
Unfortunately, htbackdrops is currently offline. So for non-tagged and streaming music, you aren't going to be able to download anything. The only alternative is to go to those empty directories and create a musicbrainz.nfo file. In that file you would put the MBID from the MusicBrainz site. With that AS can download from the other two image services.
Having said all that, I have released a beta of 2.0.1 that adds artist name searching using theaudiodb. If you continue to have issues, I'd suggest you post in the thread I mentioned at the beginning. I'd also need a debug log with both Kodi and AS debug logging turned on.
