[vbat99]

I know there are no immediate plans to add music management and scraping functionality to MC - the work involved in that just seems immense even if was boiled down to requiring a properly named, tagged, and foldered (is that even a word?) music collection to write .nfo's and grab artwork. But I'm asking all of you for help/recommendations because I think we have the best group using the best Media Manager !

I was using MediaElch to write artist/album nfo's and download artwork (folder, cd, logo, fanart and extrafanarts), but it seems to have gone belly-up in the music support area recently.

1. Does anybody use KODI for their music collection?
2. If Yes, does anybody generate nfo files for their collection? If yes, what are you using?
3. How do you get your fanart? Are you using a separate app/program? Do you strictly rely on CD Art Manager (all that did was erase half my artwork when it was looking for what i was missing. Totally my fault, but it just takes too long IMHO).

Any suggestions/input would be appreciated!

I have thought and thought about this for Media Companion, and yes, the complexities of Music scraping with artwork is immense.
Ensuring MC gets the right artist, right song, album etc means addition of some sort of tag retrieval from mp3, flac, ogg....the amount of different audio files is almost endless.
Then if no tags, trying to get artist, song title, album from filename and/or folder with all the different naming conventions that users can have their files stored as.
MC then needs a source of all the info from the internet...Where from, does the site have an API, is it free. Artwork, nfo storage or embed into the audio file.
This is just part of the logistics. The Coding into Media Companion...or even a stand-alone app for MC, so as not to impact the main performance for Movie and TV.

I've mentioned it before, it's not something that will be added anytime soon, but it is not dismissed completely.