2018-01-30, 15:05
Well scrape artist and album additional info and artwork, you can do that from the context menu "Query info for all" from the artists and albums node respectlvely (if you have not already got the art).
Then use the music library export facility, even the v17 version will do this for you, found under settings>media>library but scroll down the screen to see the music export. When prompted choose individual files and say yes to art.
Now there are some warnings to go with it:
The art will be at the resolution used by Kodi, not the original source if it was higher.
Unless all the music files by an artist and only that artist are under one folder the artist art may be miss-placed.
This will also create artist.nfo and album.nfo files mixed in with your music files, and these will be used in preference by the scraper should you re-add this music to Kodi. If you want different info (say from TADB rather than allmusic) then you would need to remove these files.
There is improved functionality in this area for v18 e.g. abiity to export just art, or to a location not mixed with music files, and the unique artist folder issues are solved.
Then use the music library export facility, even the v17 version will do this for you, found under settings>media>library but scroll down the screen to see the music export. When prompted choose individual files and say yes to art.
Now there are some warnings to go with it:
The art will be at the resolution used by Kodi, not the original source if it was higher.
Unless all the music files by an artist and only that artist are under one folder the artist art may be miss-placed.
This will also create artist.nfo and album.nfo files mixed in with your music files, and these will be used in preference by the scraper should you re-add this music to Kodi. If you want different info (say from TADB rather than allmusic) then you would need to remove these files.
There is improved functionality in this area for v18 e.g. abiity to export just art, or to a location not mixed with music files, and the unique artist folder issues are solved.
