2019-12-29, 23:57
I saw that Kodi is scrapping the discography for special purpose artists (https://musicbrainz.org/doc/Style/Unknow...ose_artist).
If you have e.g. "Various Artists" or "[dialogue]" in your library, tagged with MBID's, you will get all albums which are assigned to these artists. You will get thousands of records in the table "discography" but they are – more or less – useless.
Whereas it's quite useful to have the all (studio) albums for real artists, it's not really useful for SPA's. Nobody might be interested to have all Compilations from MusicBrainz in a local library. It's just blows up the database (e.g. more than 1500 pages at musicbrainz.org for "Various Artists"). So it costs more space locally, causes more traffic and load to MusicBrainz and potentially slow down your system. Especially on weak devices this might cause a problem.
IMHO it might be good to prevent Kodi from downloading the discography for special purpose artists.
A quick way to keep ones database small and clean might be to delete all discography records for SPA's but not the albums, you have in your library.
If you have e.g. "Various Artists" or "[dialogue]" in your library, tagged with MBID's, you will get all albums which are assigned to these artists. You will get thousands of records in the table "discography" but they are – more or less – useless.
Whereas it's quite useful to have the all (studio) albums for real artists, it's not really useful for SPA's. Nobody might be interested to have all Compilations from MusicBrainz in a local library. It's just blows up the database (e.g. more than 1500 pages at musicbrainz.org for "Various Artists"). So it costs more space locally, causes more traffic and load to MusicBrainz and potentially slow down your system. Especially on weak devices this might cause a problem.
IMHO it might be good to prevent Kodi from downloading the discography for special purpose artists.
A quick way to keep ones database small and clean might be to delete all discography records for SPA's but not the albums, you have in your library.