[scott967]

The problem is you can't add artwork to an artist unless it has been "scraped", which in the database is shown by the "lastScraped" attribute. There are a couple of ways to fix, one is to simply use an SQL tool to populate that attribute for all artists with a date. But if you don't want to mess with your database another way is to use the music-library-import music database function. To do this create a file around this template:

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
<musicdb>
   <artist>
        <name>Dead Parrot Society</name>
        <musicBrainzArtistID></musicBrainzArtistID>
        <genre></genre>
        <style></style>
        <mood></mood>
        <yearsactive></yearsactive>
        <instruments></instruments>
        <born></born>
        <formed></formed>
        <biography></biography>
        <died></died>
        <disbanded></disbanded>
        <path></path>
        <album>
            <title></title>
            <year></year>
        </album>
        <art></art>
    </artist>
</musicdb>

You could of course add more detail as desired, and you can add as many

Code:

<artist>
...
</artist>

blocks as desired. Save your file and then use the music database import feature which will ask you to navigate to that file, select it, and then it will add the info to your database, setting the "lastScraped" field so now you can get into the artist info screen. Or you could add the following elements:

Code:

<thumb></thumb>
<fanart>
    <thumb></thumb>
</fanart>

into your artist block, and place the full path and filename for your artist poster and artist fanart inside the thumb /thumb and then you won't have to search for the artwork from the artist info screen.

Also note that albums have "thumbs" which normally would be a cover image. They don't have "fanart". Artists have "fanart".

scott s.
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