2022-12-24, 16:55
I've only been playing around with Kodi music for a week or two, so this is all new to me. I had Kodi index or catalog a Music folder I have on a NAS box.
I have a number of folders containing CD's that I downloaded from file-lockers about 8 or so years ago, these are "Various Artist" type CD's. An example:
Artist: VA
Title Of Album: Electro Swing 3
Year Of Release: 09.02.2011
Label: Wagram Music
Genre: House, Progressive
Quality: mp3
Bitrate: VBR
Total Time: 74:42 min
Total Size: 110 Mb
There is only 1 image file in the folder (Electro Swing 3.jpg) as well as a .cue and .m3u file. I'm not sure if Kodi does anything with the .m3u or .cue files when indexing.
Most of the music folders are NOT "various artists" and are cataloged correctly so that when I view them I see them as an album with correct cover art. But it seems that for these VA albums, Kodi is showing each track as an album, with no cover art, and a single track.
I assume that the Kodi defaults for the music info services do not have these "VA" albums? And if not, can Kodi default to treating tracks inside the same folder as the same album?
I have a number of folders containing CD's that I downloaded from file-lockers about 8 or so years ago, these are "Various Artist" type CD's. An example:
Artist: VA
Title Of Album: Electro Swing 3
Year Of Release: 09.02.2011
Label: Wagram Music
Genre: House, Progressive
Quality: mp3
Bitrate: VBR
Total Time: 74:42 min
Total Size: 110 Mb
There is only 1 image file in the folder (Electro Swing 3.jpg) as well as a .cue and .m3u file. I'm not sure if Kodi does anything with the .m3u or .cue files when indexing.
Most of the music folders are NOT "various artists" and are cataloged correctly so that when I view them I see them as an album with correct cover art. But it seems that for these VA albums, Kodi is showing each track as an album, with no cover art, and a single track.
I assume that the Kodi defaults for the music info services do not have these "VA" albums? And if not, can Kodi default to treating tracks inside the same folder as the same album?