[giftie]

Yes you will need to Update the Addon's database and you will need to set your music path in both the script and the skin.

Thanks Giftie, after much downloading and doing what you told me to haha its working much better now.

Now the majority of my albums etc are showing up fine its only the really odd music that doesnt, I'm planning on doing this manually and uploading to Fanart.tv to support them.

But.. I have run into another annoying as hell problem lol I hope you can help but it might not be your exact expertise (as I doubt its to do with Cdart Manager):

So with everything scanned into XBMC and CDart Manager etc for some reason all the "feature" tracks, all the "all xyz artist" tracks etc have been made into their own "artists" in the artists view. Here Ill show you:



This is a screen shot of my music collection in artists view. Everything is fine, except that the first seven artists thumbnails you see along the bottom is just one track on one of my wifes Beyonce CD's. It has made an "Artist" for every "Beyonce feat xyz" song on all her albums (my wife has them all I believe)

And Beyonce isnt the only one, there are literally a good hundred extra artists cause of the "featuring" thing.

I also have a few compliation albums, and instead of all the albums being listed under "Various Artists" like they are in my folder structure (which was done automatically by MusicBrainz), now like above each single artist has their own artist thumbnail. I have I think four compliation albums, so thats a good 40 to 50 extra unneeded artists right there.

This is something that XBMC's music scraper is doing, cdART Manager would normally download the main artist, Beyoncé in this case. You can disable this in XBMC's settings(Settings -> Music -> Library -> Include artists who appear only on Compilations) this will reduce your listing to the Album artists(which would include Various Artists instead of the individual artist.) This hides the excess, it won't get rid of them since they are part of the song tracks. You will also have to exit your music library then re-enter the music library for the skin to properly refresh.

Also ACDC is all messed up. It keeps putting it in there twice, there are two artist thumbnails one called "AC/DC" and one called "ACDC". Now in MusicBrainz I specifically renamed all my AC/DC as ACDC cause you can't use "/" in folder names so I knew it wouldnt work with AC/DC. But even after spending a good few hours manually changing "AC/DC" to "ACDC" in MusicBrainz for each track, its still doing this double up. Inside each of the Artist Thumbs is the complete album list, so its literally twice.

I know this probably isnt CDart Managers thing, but you seem to know what your doing, so any help would be greatly appreciated, or perhaps you could point me in the right direction for help?

Thanks a bunch though for earlier, its working ALOT better now all thanks to you.

Cheers

AC/DC is one of the special ones.. Though you have Tagged it as ACDC, when you scanned your library, XBMC matches it properly to AC/DC(for any that it finds). So if XBMC does not match the album to AC/DC, it will go by the stored tag(which will be ACDC in your case) MusicBrainz(which is what cdART Manager uses to get ID's) matches ACDC to AC/DC(hence why both will appear on the artist list) but when it come to saving, it will save also to both since XBMC reports it as a different artist.

The hardest part regarding this extra artwork(which is supported by skins, but not XBMC directly) there is no definitive path for artists. This is because people store thier music in many different ways and XBMC tries to cover all methods(multiple paths, different folder layouts, etc.) Most skins and cdART Manager requests a 'Path to Music Library' which is a little misleading. You can set this to be an artwork folder(completely separate to your library) this way your music library will be clean(only containing cdart.png, folder.jpg for each album)