2016-08-03, 15:28
Hey Marc,
While I do not have the answers to your artist artwork questions, I can tell you how I am managing some of the scenarios you mention, in the hope that could be useful to you.
First off, i am not using Picard or MusicBrainz IDs, so perhaps what follows might not be of interest. In any case, I have a huge music library (around 170,000 tracks) and for the most part, things look good in Kodi for music.
As for your scenarios:
First of all, all of my tracks have an AlbumArtist tag set, since my music is organized as AbumArtist\Album\Tracks.
1. Whenever I have tracks that have multiple artists in them (artist 1 feat. artist2), when I tag my files I place "artist1 / artist2" on the Artist tag for the file. I have " / " as the artist separator in the advancedsettings.xml in Kodi. I always select artist1 as the Album Artist.
2. For compilation albums I use "(Multiple Artists)" as the Album Artist, (each track is tagged with whatever artist(s) appear on it) and that way there is always one album artist associated with muti-artist albums, and also that allows me to place all compilation albums under one folder without breaking my music files structure.
I am not using NFO files.
Hope you find this useful.
Regards,
Bart
While I do not have the answers to your artist artwork questions, I can tell you how I am managing some of the scenarios you mention, in the hope that could be useful to you.
First off, i am not using Picard or MusicBrainz IDs, so perhaps what follows might not be of interest. In any case, I have a huge music library (around 170,000 tracks) and for the most part, things look good in Kodi for music.
As for your scenarios:
First of all, all of my tracks have an AlbumArtist tag set, since my music is organized as AbumArtist\Album\Tracks.
1. Whenever I have tracks that have multiple artists in them (artist 1 feat. artist2), when I tag my files I place "artist1 / artist2" on the Artist tag for the file. I have " / " as the artist separator in the advancedsettings.xml in Kodi. I always select artist1 as the Album Artist.
2. For compilation albums I use "(Multiple Artists)" as the Album Artist, (each track is tagged with whatever artist(s) appear on it) and that way there is always one album artist associated with muti-artist albums, and also that allows me to place all compilation albums under one folder without breaking my music files structure.
I am not using NFO files.
Hope you find this useful.
Regards,
Bart
