2021-08-28, 21:14
I've been on a deep-dive for over a week to clean my music artist/album artist tags, but I'm going nuts over a handful of items that Kodi continues to associate with the wrong artist. I've made sure the artist.nfo & album.nfo are correct or I deleted them. For Artist Information Provider I've tried Generic Artist Scraper (discog & allmusic), TheAudioDB Artist Scraper, and Universal Artist Scraper. They either get the wrong artist all-together, or duplicate multiple entries for the same artist in my library. I used MP3tag to make sure every item within an artist's folder have exactly the same Artist & Album Artist. Just yesterday removed my music source from kodi, manually deleted MyMusic82.db & started over.
What can I be missing?
Example: Eurythmics/Ultimate Collection keeps scanning it into the library for the artist El Debarge. I left artist.nfo alone in the Eurythmics folder since that data is correct. Indeed I also have an El Debarge (don't judge) artist folder (without an artist.nfo file yet) with also an Ultimate Collection album (no album.nfo). Clearly Kodi is mixing them up or putting them together.
Example2: A couple of tracks in a Third Eye Blind/Demos folder (again, no album.nfo files), and all tags are correct. One scraper puts one track with some artist "i4Ni" I've never heard of, nor have anything else from. Another scraper created 6 Third Eye Blind entries in my library. I even tried clearing the tag for this track & creating the tag from scratch.
Kodi 19.1 (19.1.0) Git:20210822-34a88a9059
What can I be missing?
Example: Eurythmics/Ultimate Collection keeps scanning it into the library for the artist El Debarge. I left artist.nfo alone in the Eurythmics folder since that data is correct. Indeed I also have an El Debarge (don't judge) artist folder (without an artist.nfo file yet) with also an Ultimate Collection album (no album.nfo). Clearly Kodi is mixing them up or putting them together.
Example2: A couple of tracks in a Third Eye Blind/Demos folder (again, no album.nfo files), and all tags are correct. One scraper puts one track with some artist "i4Ni" I've never heard of, nor have anything else from. Another scraper created 6 Third Eye Blind entries in my library. I even tried clearing the tag for this track & creating the tag from scratch.
Kodi 19.1 (19.1.0) Git:20210822-34a88a9059