2018-04-08, 19:25
I would like to tackle the subject of having different versions of specific albums in Kodi. You might call me an audiophile, although I don't really like that word, but I am certainly a collector. In my mancave I have a multi-channel speaker setup. I love listening to surround mixes of albums and my collection comprises a fair deal of those as well as hi-res versions or special pressing like MFSL, black triangle or German target. This means, in my library there are often several different versions of my favorite albums.
However, currently KODI is only able to use Artist/Album as sorting criteria. This leads to diferent versions of an album being sorted together in one long list.
I haven't really come up with a solution how to adapt tagging for KODI. Some of my albums have the special version in brackets in the "album title" field but that is not a good solution as it makes scraping difficult when no Musicbrainz tags are present. But even with Musicbrainz tags present, all different versions are sorted together.
The only thing that I have adapted throughout all versions is to write the mix after the song title because Musicbrainz does this as well in many cases.
Example:
Lucy in the sky with diamonds (5.1 mix)
I have to admit I'm pretty spoiled by foobar2000 where this can be completely customized, along with advanced filters in real time. On the other hand, Kodi aims to be a centralized media center and has several advantages in using a remote on any device in the house. So I would like to pick your brain for some suggestions how to achieve a more fine-grained presentation of albums.
However, currently KODI is only able to use Artist/Album as sorting criteria. This leads to diferent versions of an album being sorted together in one long list.
I haven't really come up with a solution how to adapt tagging for KODI. Some of my albums have the special version in brackets in the "album title" field but that is not a good solution as it makes scraping difficult when no Musicbrainz tags are present. But even with Musicbrainz tags present, all different versions are sorted together.
The only thing that I have adapted throughout all versions is to write the mix after the song title because Musicbrainz does this as well in many cases.
Example:
Lucy in the sky with diamonds (5.1 mix)
I have to admit I'm pretty spoiled by foobar2000 where this can be completely customized, along with advanced filters in real time. On the other hand, Kodi aims to be a centralized media center and has several advantages in using a remote on any device in the house. So I would like to pick your brain for some suggestions how to achieve a more fine-grained presentation of albums.