The Music 'rethink' Thread
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@Ladida: Kodi has a setting to play next item, so if I select the first song all the others in the folder are played automatically. With my Intel NUC there's just a very slight pause between, it's almost 'gapless' even for 1080p DTS-HDMA videos. (My NUC is an i3 early gen so later i5 may be even better).

I'm going to try using MediaElch Concert nfo files tomorrow in my app as I scrapped all my concerts today and almost everyone was recognised and scrapped, a couple were spelling mistakes in my folder names (either Artist or the Video name not found but it's pretty 'fuzzy' in its search, so it gets most videos - only does one at a time).

MediaElch has a Concert scrapper that grabs: Disc info (Artist, title, description, rating, release date etc), folder (cover) art and fanart automatically from the folder name alone if in the format: [Artist] - [Concert/Disc Release Title]. Example: David Gilmour - Live in Gdansk. Unfortunatley it doesn't like a date on the end, such as (2007), so that has to be removed in its search dialog.

But really all MediaElch is getting that I didn't already have was some fanart, I already had the cover art, although MediaElch found higher res covers in some instances. So it's not really needed as currently Kodi's Music Video library doesn't seem to use any of the metadata apart from Artist, Album (concert/disc release name), Year and Genre.

The song info comes from the nfo files and those nfo files my app creates from the music file contents (see earlier post) and the folder name. I'm thinking the additional data from MediaElch scrapping The Movie Database might be useful in a future Kodi release, but 16.1 and probably 17 probably not.

So now, if you name your Music Video folder: 'Artist - Concert Name' and you split the music source (BD, DVD etc) into chapters (per song) then run my app then scan into Kodi Music Library you get what you see above.

I've used MKVToolNix to split most my stuff and that's pretty painless, except having to manually rename the chapters to match the track number and song title (I will semi automate that at some stage - from a text file (maybe), containing a list of titles/songs since that can be found easily, copy and paste off a webpage for example, then auto rename the media files from that)

Be nice if Kodi 17 could show folder.jpg and fanart.jpg at the 'album' level of the Music Video library view (Dave?)

More tomorrow...
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The Music 'rethink' Thread - by AnalogKid - 2016-08-06, 15:15
RE: The Music 'rethink' Thread - by DaveBlake - 2016-08-06, 15:24
RE: The Music 'rethink' Thread - by bsoriano - 2016-08-06, 23:50
RE: The Music 'rethink' Thread - by DaveBlake - 2016-08-07, 00:21
RE: The Music 'rethink' Thread - by HomerJau - 2016-08-07, 07:07
RE: The Music 'rethink' Thread - by DaveBlake - 2016-08-07, 10:29
RE: The Music 'rethink' Thread - by HomerJau - 2016-08-07, 11:05
RE: The Music 'rethink' Thread - by AnalogKid - 2016-08-07, 17:04
RE: The Music 'rethink' Thread - by HomerJau - 2016-08-07, 11:12
RE: The Music 'rethink' Thread - by HomerJau - 2016-08-08, 02:20
RE: The Music 'rethink' Thread - by HomerJau - 2016-08-08, 08:37
RE: The Music 'rethink' Thread - by Ladida - 2016-08-08, 11:05
RE: The Music 'rethink' Thread - by Wanilton - 2016-08-08, 11:37
RE: The Music 'rethink' Thread - by HomerJau - 2016-08-08, 12:22
RE: The Music 'rethink' Thread - by HomerJau - 2016-08-08, 12:11
RE: The Music 'rethink' Thread - by harvey637 - 2016-08-23, 12:43
RE: The Music 'rethink' Thread - by AnalogKid - 2016-08-23, 14:00
RE: The Music 'rethink' Thread - by scott967 - 2016-08-23, 22:12
RE: The Music 'rethink' Thread - by HomerJau - 2016-08-24, 11:29
RE: The Music 'rethink' Thread - by harvey637 - 2016-08-24, 14:46
RE: The Music 'rethink' Thread - by jonheal - 2017-02-03, 05:00
RE: The Music 'rethink' Thread - by HomerJau - 2017-02-09, 04:47
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