2024-03-01, 13:05
I've been battling with this on and off for the better part of two months now and I can't for the life of me figure out what I'm doing wrong. I'll try to include all relevant info in this post, hopefully without including too much, as best as I can. Maybe someone can see what I'm missing (which will probably be something painfully obvious...)
The environment:
Kodi Nexus 20.3.0, included in LibreElec 11.0.6, on a Raspberry Pi 4. All add-ons are up to date.
Under Settings -> Media -> Music the relevant settings (AFAICS) are:
What I've done:
I've organized MP3 files in folders by album. I've used Musicbrainz Picard 2.5.6 running on Linux 18.04 (yes, I know that version is EOL, but that's not relevant here) according to the instructions in the Wiki. To illustrate I will include examples of four albums here:
When I display the ID3 data using id3v2 everything looks fine. To illustrate, here's the output for the first track on the Anjunabeats album:
The relevant entry here is: TXXX (User defined text information): (MusicBrainz Album Type). For the above four albums this tag is as follows:
This all comes straight from MB via Picard, using the "Lookup in browser" feature. I'm using the proper ' / ' (space-slash-space) sequence to separate multiple fields within the same tag as per the recommendations; this has not been changed in advancedsettings.xml.
What I expected to happen:
Since all albums are tagged both as 'album' and 'compilation' they should show up both under 'Albums' and under 'Compilations' in the library, navigating as follows:
Home Screen -> Music -> Library -> Albums and Home Screen -> Music -> Library -> Compilations
What does happen:
All four albums appear under "Albums" as expected. However, only two albums (Armind: The Collected 12" Mixes, Volume 1 and Hi-NRG Classix) appear under "Compilations", in spite of the fact that all four albums are tagged as both album and compilation.
The Hi-NRG album is not tagged as dj-mix, but this seems irrelevant; two albums appear under 'Compilations', one tagged as dj-mix and one not.
In addition, only Armin van Buuren is displayed in the library under Roles -> All roles -> DJ-Mix which is also incorrect - Above & Beyond should be displayed here as well.
My question:
What causes this discrepancy, and how do I fix it?
All suggestions or pointers in the right direction would be greatly appreciated!!
// FvW
The environment:
Kodi Nexus 20.3.0, included in LibreElec 11.0.6, on a Raspberry Pi 4. All add-ons are up to date.
Under Settings -> Media -> Music the relevant settings (AFAICS) are:
- Fetch additional information during updates = ON
- Artist information folder = [empty / not set]
- Default provider for album information = Generic Album Scraper
- Default provider for artist information = Generic Artist Scraper
- Prefer online information = OFF
What I've done:
I've organized MP3 files in folders by album. I've used Musicbrainz Picard 2.5.6 running on Linux 18.04 (yes, I know that version is EOL, but that's not relevant here) according to the instructions in the Wiki. To illustrate I will include examples of four albums here:
- Anjunabeats, Volume 1 (see MB release details)
- Armind: The Collected 12" Mixes, Volume 1 (see MB release details)
- A State of Trance 2022 (see MB release details)
- Hi-NRG Classix (see MB release details)
When I display the ID3 data using id3v2 everything looks fine. To illustrate, here's the output for the first track on the Anjunabeats album:
Quote:id3v2 tag info for 01 Madonna - What It Feels Like for a Girl (Above & Beyond 12_ club mix).mp3:
TIT2 (Title/songname/content description): What It Feels Like for a Girl (Above & Beyond 12" club mix)
TPE1 (Lead performer(s)/Soloist(s)): Madonna
TRCK (Track number/Position in set): 1/13
TALB (Album/Movie/Show title): Anjunabeats, Volume 1
TPOS (Part of a set): 1/1
TCON (Content type): Trance (31)
TDAT (Date): 1310
TORY (Original release year): 2003
TYER (Year): 2003
TSOP (): frame
TPUB (Publisher): Anjunabeats
TSRC (ISRC (international standard recording code)): GBEWA0310001
TXXX (User defined text information): (SCRIPT): Latn
TMED (Media type): Digital Media
TPE2 (Band/orchestra/accompaniment): Above & Beyond
TSO2 (): frame
TXXX (User defined text information): (ARTISTS): Madonna
TXXX (User defined text information): (originalyear): 2003
WXXX (User defined URL link): (): https://www.facebook.com/inspirontrance
TXXX (User defined text information): (BARCODE): 5039060169995
UFID (Unique file identifier): http://musicbrainz.org, 36 bytes
TXXX (User defined text information): (MusicBrainz Album Type): album / compilation / dj-mix
TXXX (User defined text information): (MusicBrainz Album Id): 9c36efa5-63a3-4ceb-b886-8151c401826f
TXXX (User defined text information): (MusicBrainz Artist Id): 79239441-bfd5-4981-a70c-55c3f15c1287
TXXX (User defined text information): (MusicBrainz Album Artist Id): 370bd5a3-4abf-4356-8576-3a8fc0c11d65
TXXX (User defined text information): (MusicBrainz Release Group Id): 37a7c7f5-6083-3863-b009-04ee10a67ce6
TXXX (User defined text information): (MusicBrainz Release Track Id): bb41c9ef-469d-486c-b6d2-e99c95f7dc5c
APIC (Attached picture): ()[, 3]: image/jpeg, 68288 bytes
The relevant entry here is: TXXX (User defined text information): (MusicBrainz Album Type). For the above four albums this tag is as follows:
- Anjunabeats, Volume 1 - TXXX (User defined text information): (MusicBrainz Album Type): album / compilation / dj-mix
- Armind: The Collected 12" Mixes, Volume 1 - TXXX (User defined text information): (MusicBrainz Album Type): album / compilation
- A State of Trance 2022 - TXXX (User defined text information): (MusicBrainz Album Type): album / compilation / dj-mix
- Hi-NRG Classix - TXXX (User defined text information): (MusicBrainz Album Type): album / compilation / dj-mix
This all comes straight from MB via Picard, using the "Lookup in browser" feature. I'm using the proper ' / ' (space-slash-space) sequence to separate multiple fields within the same tag as per the recommendations; this has not been changed in advancedsettings.xml.
What I expected to happen:
Since all albums are tagged both as 'album' and 'compilation' they should show up both under 'Albums' and under 'Compilations' in the library, navigating as follows:
Home Screen -> Music -> Library -> Albums and Home Screen -> Music -> Library -> Compilations
What does happen:
All four albums appear under "Albums" as expected. However, only two albums (Armind: The Collected 12" Mixes, Volume 1 and Hi-NRG Classix) appear under "Compilations", in spite of the fact that all four albums are tagged as both album and compilation.
The Hi-NRG album is not tagged as dj-mix, but this seems irrelevant; two albums appear under 'Compilations', one tagged as dj-mix and one not.
In addition, only Armin van Buuren is displayed in the library under Roles -> All roles -> DJ-Mix which is also incorrect - Above & Beyond should be displayed here as well.
My question:
What causes this discrepancy, and how do I fix it?
All suggestions or pointers in the right direction would be greatly appreciated!!
// FvW