[Stildawn]

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.

Oh haha, yeah just tried this and it worked a treat stupid me lol.

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)

Ah ok, I was messing around and I noticed in "My Music" folder (where naturally all my music is stored) it looks like XBMC tried to make a new ACDC folder under "AC/DC" which as I said above what its done is made a new folder called "AC" and in that folder is another folder called "DC" which is exactly what the "/" symbol does in windows. Which is completely messed up.

I noticed that in this AC > DC folder there was the fan art etc (which wasn't in my "ACDC" folder which contains all the albums and mp3's), so I copied the fan art from that into the proper "ACDC" folder.

And well I don't know what happened but now in XBMC under Artists it only shows "AC/DC" as an artist, the double up "ACDC" is now gone. However it still doesn't show the fan art background nor the artist thumbnail (which is what I manually copied into the proper ACDC folder) in XBMC.

So one problem solved, but another popped up. Its odd cause it shows all the album art for the ACDC albums.

EDIT: I just read this thread: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...ht=ac%2Fdc
So this path XBMC has created "//My Music/AC/DC/" is a work around, so if I go back into MusicBrainz Picard, and retag all my ACDC albums using the correct AC/DC artist name (which is also used by XBMC) and then save all the albums into the "My Music/AC/DC" path it might work



On to the next step. I've naturally got a whole bunch of albums and artists with no art (mainly my weird stuff lol). So I want to go down the route of making my own art for it as I'm reasonably good at Photoshop etc.

So if I use the rules of Fanart.tv for each of the different arts, how do I save the art in my music folders to get it to work? Do I simply name them the same as the others one that were automatically downloaded by CDart Manager? Or do I need to do something different? Will I need to do anything in XBMC to make it see the new art I've created?

I'll be sure to submit the art to Fanart.tv for everyone else as well.