2022-03-01, 01:21
In my attempt to experiment with artwork, I fear I may have somehow embedded a piece of artwork somewhere in the kodi structure, and now I can't seem to correct it. I am working with a modest collection of music (singles) as a practice set. So, if necessary, I'm good with a 'do over'. I manually edited tags using MP3Tag (better than Musicbrainz for this particular collection). Tagging was done on my Windows-10 PC. I dropped independent album art onto each tag and saved. I transferred the collection to a music file (Tropic-Rock-Singles) on my MediaCenter (Linux 20.3, Kodi 19.3) using WINscp. I scanned 'Tropic-Rock' into the music library as a 'Source'.
File structure:
Music
Tropic-Rock
Tropic-Rock-Singles
Music plays fine and displayed artwork seemed correct. However, I was not satisfied with how artwork was displayed during playback, and attempted to add and additional piece of artwork (as folder.jpg). folder.jpg was added to the Tropic-Rock-Singles directory in an attempt to have folder.jpg artwork represent the entire collection, while still displaying each individual album cover during playback. FAIL! I now have come to understand that 'fullscreen music visualization' might be a better solution for what I'm attempting to accomplish.
As I have entered the music collection as singles, Kodi has loaded the contents of the Tropic-Rock-Singles in Music>Songs (i.e., there is no 'album'). If I play the music collection directly from Music>Songs with fullscreen music visualization, artwork and information are correctly displayed. However, if I attempt to build a playlist and include items from the music collection, information is correct, but artwork reverts to folder.jpg.
My original file set on my Windows machine is fine. I've copied a fresh set of tagged files to my MediaCenter, removed Tropic-Rock, cleaned the music library, restarted Kodi, re-scanned Tropic-Rock, and reloaded to music library. The singles are listed under Music>Songs and play and display fine. However, when I attempt to build a playlist, each of these files presents folder.jpg as the artwork. Thought I had removed all traces of folder.jpg, but it seems that I have one (or more) embedded somewhere.
Any suggestions/insight greatly appreciated.. Again, if this is a complete 'do over' that's fine.
File structure:
Music
Tropic-Rock
Tropic-Rock-Singles
Music plays fine and displayed artwork seemed correct. However, I was not satisfied with how artwork was displayed during playback, and attempted to add and additional piece of artwork (as folder.jpg). folder.jpg was added to the Tropic-Rock-Singles directory in an attempt to have folder.jpg artwork represent the entire collection, while still displaying each individual album cover during playback. FAIL! I now have come to understand that 'fullscreen music visualization' might be a better solution for what I'm attempting to accomplish.
As I have entered the music collection as singles, Kodi has loaded the contents of the Tropic-Rock-Singles in Music>Songs (i.e., there is no 'album'). If I play the music collection directly from Music>Songs with fullscreen music visualization, artwork and information are correctly displayed. However, if I attempt to build a playlist and include items from the music collection, information is correct, but artwork reverts to folder.jpg.
My original file set on my Windows machine is fine. I've copied a fresh set of tagged files to my MediaCenter, removed Tropic-Rock, cleaned the music library, restarted Kodi, re-scanned Tropic-Rock, and reloaded to music library. The singles are listed under Music>Songs and play and display fine. However, when I attempt to build a playlist, each of these files presents folder.jpg as the artwork. Thought I had removed all traces of folder.jpg, but it seems that I have one (or more) embedded somewhere.
Any suggestions/insight greatly appreciated.. Again, if this is a complete 'do over' that's fine.