2018-05-15, 21:05
Hello everyone,
I am currently updating my music artwork to high quality images.
My folder structure: artist > album > track.
I am following the wiki page for music artwork on this. I name my artist artwork folder.jpg, my fanart fanart.jpg and my album art cover.jpg. According to the wiki the album art may also be named folder.jpg but I want to be able to distinguishe the types of artwork images simply by filename.
I noticed that exporting my library (using Settings/Media/Library/Music Library/Export library) puts a duplicate of my cover.jpg into my album folders naming it folder.jpg. This not only contratdicts my wish for simple distinguishability but it is also a considerable amount of wasted storage space.
I couldn't find anything on the previously mentioned wiki page to change this behaviour of Kodi (e.g. using the advancedsettings.xml) and also a web and forum search didn't get me any closer to solve my dilemma. The wiki page only states that Kodi uses cover.jpg or folder.jpg.
So here is my question:
Is it possible to define the actually chosen naming convention for album art used during a library export?
If yes, how?
If no, why is the wiki so unspecific on that topic and why are two possible ways described but no way to chose either of them?
My specifications:
Device running Kodi: Raspberry Pi 3B+
OS: OSMC
Kodi version: 17.6 (compiled April 3, 2018)
Storage: NFS 3 device (QNAP)
I am currently updating my music artwork to high quality images.
My folder structure: artist > album > track.
I am following the wiki page for music artwork on this. I name my artist artwork folder.jpg, my fanart fanart.jpg and my album art cover.jpg. According to the wiki the album art may also be named folder.jpg but I want to be able to distinguishe the types of artwork images simply by filename.
I noticed that exporting my library (using Settings/Media/Library/Music Library/Export library) puts a duplicate of my cover.jpg into my album folders naming it folder.jpg. This not only contratdicts my wish for simple distinguishability but it is also a considerable amount of wasted storage space.
I couldn't find anything on the previously mentioned wiki page to change this behaviour of Kodi (e.g. using the advancedsettings.xml) and also a web and forum search didn't get me any closer to solve my dilemma. The wiki page only states that Kodi uses cover.jpg or folder.jpg.
So here is my question:
Is it possible to define the actually chosen naming convention for album art used during a library export?
If yes, how?
If no, why is the wiki so unspecific on that topic and why are two possible ways described but no way to chose either of them?
My specifications:
Device running Kodi: Raspberry Pi 3B+
OS: OSMC
Kodi version: 17.6 (compiled April 3, 2018)
Storage: NFS 3 device (QNAP)