2016-05-15, 12:42
Steve, yes albumartist is having an effect on what you see. Kodi knows that Chopin is a composer from the TCOM tag, but Kodi is not showing you that because of your settings.
By default the various roles nodes follow the badly named "Include artists who appear only on compilations" system setting (that from now on I am going to talk about as the inverse albumartistonly flag). I expect you have albumartistsonly=true. In that configuration the only composers shown are those that are also album artists. If you had the the composer of every song (pop or classical) tagged then having this as default behaviour would make more sense to you.
But you can also configure this locally, and filter by genre, to see say all classical composers including those that are not album artists without filling the normal artist list with all the song artists.
So to see more composers you can do one of two things
a) Enable the "Include artists who appear only on compilations" setting - quick but will effect the artists node too.
or
b) override that setting locally by creating a custom node - slightly mode involved but a good skill to again
There is a a how-to thread here http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=257378 where this kind of node is mentioned. I think the node editor now works, but manually the xml you want is
That may be all you want. On the other hand Kodi will also make use of instrumentalists etc. when tagged. So for classical music if you tag who did the horn solo, or the painist in a piano concerto etc. (Picard supports that) then Kodi can display it on the song information dialog, or you can create a "painist" node or playlist to see all the painists, or you can see all the varied artist roles much like genres. It is extremely powerful browsing tool if you have a large library, but also fully configurable. The difficulty is presenting it to users in a disgestable way!
By default the various roles nodes follow the badly named "Include artists who appear only on compilations" system setting (that from now on I am going to talk about as the inverse albumartistonly flag). I expect you have albumartistsonly=true. In that configuration the only composers shown are those that are also album artists. If you had the the composer of every song (pop or classical) tagged then having this as default behaviour would make more sense to you.
But you can also configure this locally, and filter by genre, to see say all classical composers including those that are not album artists without filling the normal artist list with all the song artists.
So to see more composers you can do one of two things
a) Enable the "Include artists who appear only on compilations" setting - quick but will effect the artists node too.
or
b) override that setting locally by creating a custom node - slightly mode involved but a good skill to again
There is a a how-to thread here http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=257378 where this kind of node is mentioned. I think the node editor now works, but manually the xml you want is
Code:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<node order="1" type="folder">
<label>All Composers</label>
<icon>DefaultMusicArtists.png</icon>
<path>musicdb://artists/?role=Composer&albumartistsonly=false</path>
</node>That may be all you want. On the other hand Kodi will also make use of instrumentalists etc. when tagged. So for classical music if you tag who did the horn solo, or the painist in a piano concerto etc. (Picard supports that) then Kodi can display it on the song information dialog, or you can create a "painist" node or playlist to see all the painists, or you can see all the varied artist roles much like genres. It is extremely powerful browsing tool if you have a large library, but also fully configurable. The difficulty is presenting it to users in a disgestable way!
