2019-10-26, 11:37
Hi there, I want to re-organize my music sources and need a little help with it.
My current situation:
I've got 2 main sources:
For to not mix them up, I've got 2 profiles setup in kodi and use 2 separate DBs (MariaDB). All fine, but needs profile switching.
Together with that, my Music source is added as only one source, although I've got my music pre-sorted in major genres on my hard drive (like /mp3/blues, /mp3/reggae, etc) and want to make use of the new sources capability of v18.
Same goes for Audio Books, as I've got audio books and radio plays in separate folders, so I would be able to use the source feature there, too.
For convenience, I use Yatse. But maintaining 2 profiles needs 2 hosts setup in yatse for each client, making it 4.
As a sidenote: as I also have 2 separate Movie DBs and mix them up on 2 RPi3 with all in all 3 different profiles:
So within Yatse I'm not able to re-use any of the 4 "hosts" (because 2 boxes with 2 profiles each). That leads to sync 4 hosts within Yatse independently...
My goal:
I want to have only one audio DB and will separate Audio Books and Music by creating separate nodes (easy, as they differ in path).
So no need in switching profiles anymore :-)
Music and Audio Books are accessible from only one profile.
Advantage would also be, to be able to setup a headless kodi instance on my server for scraping and syncing (esp. Yatse) Audio & Video with only one profile.
The headless server could then be synced to Yatse (a lot faster than RPi3!) and within Yatse I'm able to re-use this host for the other 2 hosts (RPi3).
The way to go?
My way to go would be:
Or should I export both (Music & Audio books) into single files and import both files on the new instance?
I want to loose as few data as possible.
Music & Audio books are tagged (90%) with Musicbrainz, the rest is tagged with proper Id3. Both, Music & Audio Books are scraped already and have fanart (Artist Screensaver) available.
So my main question is:
How to best do the export of 2 separate DBs with 2 sources and import them into only one DB with around 12 sources?
What would be your way to go? Have you already done something like this?
Thx in advance!
My current situation:
I've got 2 main sources:
- Music
- Audio books
For to not mix them up, I've got 2 profiles setup in kodi and use 2 separate DBs (MariaDB). All fine, but needs profile switching.
Together with that, my Music source is added as only one source, although I've got my music pre-sorted in major genres on my hard drive (like /mp3/blues, /mp3/reggae, etc) and want to make use of the new sources capability of v18.
Same goes for Audio Books, as I've got audio books and radio plays in separate folders, so I would be able to use the source feature there, too.
For convenience, I use Yatse. But maintaining 2 profiles needs 2 hosts setup in yatse for each client, making it 4.
As a sidenote: as I also have 2 separate Movie DBs and mix them up on 2 RPi3 with all in all 3 different profiles:
- Profile 1: Music + Movies A
- Profile 2: Audio Books + Movies A
- Profile 3: Music + Movies B
So within Yatse I'm not able to re-use any of the 4 "hosts" (because 2 boxes with 2 profiles each). That leads to sync 4 hosts within Yatse independently...
My goal:
I want to have only one audio DB and will separate Audio Books and Music by creating separate nodes (easy, as they differ in path).
So no need in switching profiles anymore :-)
Music and Audio Books are accessible from only one profile.
Advantage would also be, to be able to setup a headless kodi instance on my server for scraping and syncing (esp. Yatse) Audio & Video with only one profile.
The headless server could then be synced to Yatse (a lot faster than RPi3!) and within Yatse I'm able to re-use this host for the other 2 hosts (RPi3).
The way to go?
My way to go would be:
- Setup an 'Artist information Folder' (AIF) for each source (Audio Books & Music)
- Export each source to AIF
- Copy the 2 AIFs to only one
- Setup a new kodi instance with proper sources (/mp3/blues, /mp3/reggae..., /audio/books, /audio/radioplay)
- Assign the new AIF
- Import
Or should I export both (Music & Audio books) into single files and import both files on the new instance?
I want to loose as few data as possible.
Music & Audio books are tagged (90%) with Musicbrainz, the rest is tagged with proper Id3. Both, Music & Audio Books are scraped already and have fanart (Artist Screensaver) available.
So my main question is:
How to best do the export of 2 separate DBs with 2 sources and import them into only one DB with around 12 sources?
What would be your way to go? Have you already done something like this?
Thx in advance!