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What option should I be selecting to add new artists to the database without losing my corrections?

I add an album to the XBMC music DB, but when I go into CDArt Manager that artist/album isn't listed. Whenever I select update / refresh within CDArt Manager all my MBID corrections/additions, for artists the script can't find a match for, disappear. Have I missed a setting or am I not selecting the correct option from the menus?

cdART Manager should not care what the MBID is during an update, unless Check MBID's is turn on in settings, which cdART Manager will send the MBID store in the database to MusicBrainz then MusicBrainz will send back the current MBID(Beyonce is one I know for sure that will get a new MBID if you have changed it to match the one on Fanart.TV) I could also have messed something up in the manual editing section of the code that causes the Artist or Artist/Album combination, no to be matched during an update. Though I don't think so.. All the script looks to match is XBMC's ID(how it is stored in XBMC's Music Library) and the Artist name(for Artists) For Albums there are a few more details, XBMC's ID, Path, Whether it has cdART or Cover, disc #, Album Title and Album Artist, need to match between XBMC's Library and cdART Manager's database(well not cover art, cdART or disc #, the script discovers these for itself)

If you want to help me out, you can do the following:

- make sure you have the setting 'Backup addon database during update' enabled <- this will make a duplicate of you present database before it starts the update(so you don't lose your edits during the testing)
- Turn Off the setting 'Check Database MBID's to be current during udate'
- enable XBMC's Debugging
- start cdART Manager
- preform an update.

If you edits are gone, please post a copy of your debug log. I might need a copy of the two databases as well to see the differences.

Also to get you database back(with the edits) just rename the backup copy(it will look something like this 'l_cdart-10-19-2012-1925.bak' ie date and time) back to l_cdart.db(these will be found in you userdata/addon_data/script.cdartmanager folder)