2019-02-27, 03:31
Music artwork question. I'm running 17.6 on Windows 10. I had spent a good amount of time, like an hour a day for a few months work manually adding artist bio pics and album artwork. Things were about as good as I could get them. Recently I noticed a lot of my artist bio pics were defaulting to a seemingly randomly one from my collection (same for all) and some of my album art had switched to lower quality download stuff. Stupid me, I hadn't backed up my database forever so I don't have a good one to import. I read up on music scraping but have a few questions. One, I edited all my mp3 ID3's and they all have the album art I want to use. I read the scraper defaults to folder.jpg in the album directory first. Is there any way to make it default to use the embedded ID3 image? 2nd, is there any way to have it scrape only the NFO from online? I'd still like bio's and such but I'm not seeing an option to tell it what to scrape. I see an online/local option but it says NFO so I'm guessing that's for the text only but I don't want to have the low quality image problem again so I'm making sure. Here's my plan, if anyone has suggestions to improve it, or if there's an add-on or something that will clean up my library I'm all ears.
Remove my music library from KODI
in explorer search my music folders for JPG/PNG's and delete them all so I know everything is clean.
re-add music library and let KODI scan everything.
And while not a KODI question, could someone suggest a program that can scan my music directories and extract the embedded image to folder.jpg? I have my music organized in directories /genre/artist/album. Looking thru my directories I'm seeing some thubnail and lower quality pics. Not sure where they came from, I want to delete them and I'd like to have a folder.jpg so it's clean. And incase there's no way to get KODI to default to the ID3 one. I downloaded ID3 album art extract which is straight forward, but it's not extracting the artwork for most of my music. And I know my tags are done right, I edited everything with Tagscanner and embedded the artwork in each file.
Remove my music library from KODI
in explorer search my music folders for JPG/PNG's and delete them all so I know everything is clean.
re-add music library and let KODI scan everything.
And while not a KODI question, could someone suggest a program that can scan my music directories and extract the embedded image to folder.jpg? I have my music organized in directories /genre/artist/album. Looking thru my directories I'm seeing some thubnail and lower quality pics. Not sure where they came from, I want to delete them and I'd like to have a folder.jpg so it's clean. And incase there's no way to get KODI to default to the ID3 one. I downloaded ID3 album art extract which is straight forward, but it's not extracting the artwork for most of my music. And I know my tags are done right, I edited everything with Tagscanner and embedded the artwork in each file.