2018-05-13, 07:10
While I have all the artwork stored with my Music, I can see the Main benefit of having the Artwork in a separate location (and have seen several posts over the years that support this).
1. To keep my Music folders clean of junk, and just pure music. Makes sense, as many people use other devices to play music to, and having all that extra artwork is pointless (and takes up space, that a thumb drive might not have available - for example taking music on said thumb drive, in a car).
2. Having external artwork, I believe, would help with Hard Drives spinning up when browsing through Kodi looking for something to play. So if you have your files located on a NAS, yet the artwork was stored on the local device (taking up way less room than the Music), allows devices like the Shield TV, or Fire Stick to have local access to the artwork (both devices have low internal storage), while not having the hard drives on the NAS spin up until something is actually played. Nice to save some wear and tear on your NAS and save a little more electricity.
3. Perhaps having external artwork for Music would also benefit Music Videos, so they could use the same artwork as Music does (this might be just a dream of mine).
1. To keep my Music folders clean of junk, and just pure music. Makes sense, as many people use other devices to play music to, and having all that extra artwork is pointless (and takes up space, that a thumb drive might not have available - for example taking music on said thumb drive, in a car).
2. Having external artwork, I believe, would help with Hard Drives spinning up when browsing through Kodi looking for something to play. So if you have your files located on a NAS, yet the artwork was stored on the local device (taking up way less room than the Music), allows devices like the Shield TV, or Fire Stick to have local access to the artwork (both devices have low internal storage), while not having the hard drives on the NAS spin up until something is actually played. Nice to save some wear and tear on your NAS and save a little more electricity.
3. Perhaps having external artwork for Music would also benefit Music Videos, so they could use the same artwork as Music does (this might be just a dream of mine).
