(2015-09-10, 19:45)Powerhouse Wrote: So Scott967, do you tag your MP4 files using MusicBrainz Picard (or some other utility)? Also, have you had better results with MP4 Music Videos that are located under the Music Section (but then scraped as Music Videos)? Currently I have mine separated, Music in one folder, and Music Videos in a separate folder. However, getting Artists view to work for Music Videos is almost laughable at this point (same artist under both Music and Music Videos, yet no Poster, or Fanart displaying under the Music Video (but works fine with Music).
I have a ticket opened regarding Music Video's not reading .NFO files (even though when you scrap them as Music Videos, it says it reads .NFO files), but it doesn't seem to going anywhere at the moment. But If putting the Videos in the same folders at the Music is located, makes it better, I'm all for moving everything to the Music folder.
I use Media Monkey 4 to tag and manage music and music video, mainly because it has so many ways to sort and view files. I also use mp3tag because it is a little easier to add non-standard tag fields. For Media Monkey, I hacked a script that generates nfo files for me from the tag data and this is what I use in Kodi. all my music videos are in their own folder tree that is identical in physical layout to my music folder tree (that is, if I have artist and album of both music and music video the folder names/relative relations are identical so I can do a folder comparison between both trees.
I found Kodi does not integrate music and music video as well as I would like, but it's OK. I did find that it seems to work differently if you enter the music video library from videos, or first going to music library and then going to music videos from there. I think ideally the video database would be able to retrieve all artist and album data from the music library.
But also keep in mind some people use music video in Kodi for "concerts" which need to be treated more like movies than track/album/artist.
I mixed some mp4 music video files into my test music folder tree and scanned them in as music, just to see what happens. I think it works because the music tag reader handles apple tags that work the same in m4a music as mp4 video. You can also tag mp4 with a cover jpg image and it will be used as the poster for both music and video (that seems to be the only tag data that the video scanner will read, everything else must be in an nfo or scraped online).
You have to think through fanart for music videos, because it is treated like movie fanart (tied to folder or filename), while for music fanart relates to the album artist.
Another consideration is that when you scan music videos as video, the scanner will grab a screenshot from the video that is used as a thumb. This might be useful if you have for example different live performances of the same song. If scanned as music I think you only get the album cover as thumb.
So I would use the video scanner for music video, though there could be some advantage to scanning as music in certain situations (seeing combined music/music video for an artist or album).
scott s.
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