[scott967]

The general solution (or at least a big move in that direction) is Kodi 18.  There's a proposed change that hasn't been added yet.  Once that happens music art will be handled very much like video art.  Skins will need to be modified to take advantage of the new features.  Artwork Beef is pretty much getting updated in parallel, and using the current Kodi 18 nightly and latest AB will result in better music art than experienced with Krypton.  I haven't have a chance to look closely at the current AS but it should also work well.  The only potential for glitch I see is Kodi 18 has one scheme for creating the artist data storage folders and AS or other addons may work slightly differently resulting in different artist folder names in some cases (mainly, when illegal filename characters are in the artist name, or there are more than one artist in the library with the same name).

AFAIK, no Kodi scrapers download any art (that may change when scrapers move to Python).  Scrapers provide a link to online art that gets stored in the library, and when Kodi needs to display the art it is downloaded (and possibly resized based on advancedsettings) into the thumbnail cache.

scott s.
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