2017-11-07, 04:01
@Edworld,
There is some major work happening in v18 of Kodi with respect to artwork, nfo files and import/export which solves a lot of issues, including the one you mention being Various Artists and Compilation albums. (head over to music forum for more information)
Essentially, if you have an album by Aerosmith in your library, then any track that appears on a compilation album should also share the artist fanart of aerosmith. But it does not always happen, and depends upon the order of scrape of the albums. If the compilation album is scraped before the Aerosmith album, then no artwork shows for either of them.
If you don't have an album by Aerosmith, then no Artist Fanart is available. Personally I wouldn't go splitting up albums and creating fake ones.
You can manually apply Artist fanart. Have a read through Section 2 here... http://kodi.wiki/view/Music_artwork
There is some major work happening in v18 of Kodi with respect to artwork, nfo files and import/export which solves a lot of issues, including the one you mention being Various Artists and Compilation albums. (head over to music forum for more information)
Essentially, if you have an album by Aerosmith in your library, then any track that appears on a compilation album should also share the artist fanart of aerosmith. But it does not always happen, and depends upon the order of scrape of the albums. If the compilation album is scraped before the Aerosmith album, then no artwork shows for either of them.
If you don't have an album by Aerosmith, then no Artist Fanart is available. Personally I wouldn't go splitting up albums and creating fake ones.
You can manually apply Artist fanart. Have a read through Section 2 here... http://kodi.wiki/view/Music_artwork
