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Gave up on this plugin. Using ARTIST SLIDESHOW instead. Works well as an alternative.
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gibxxi
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2013-12-26, 22:39
(This post was last modified: 2013-12-26, 22:48 by gibxxi.)
cdart manager doesn't modify the source music any any way shape or form (So I was reliably informed by the author some time ago). It doesn't update tags or in any way change them. The folder.jpg and cdart.png files are placed in the folder with the music, and other art files are placed in the folder you specify in the settings. That's it.
Artist MBID's are stored in cdart's own DB which is separate again.
If you want to add MBID's to the files themselves you'll need to use a 3rd-party music manager that supports this. As most also do artwork, this would somewhat negate the need for cdart manager in the first place, unless of course that app downloaded only low quality artwork itself, which you then run cdart manager to replace.
MediaMonkey has a 3rd party user script that can do MBID's and AcoustID's, but it's old and has issues. There is also MusicBrainz Picard, but in my experience, it crashes far too often on large collections. So in order to do a large library like mine (22,000 tracks) I'd need to add each to Picard by Genre folder or by artist. This would take a considerable amount of time, and is somewhat "hands-on", meaning you can't just set it up, and walk away while it does it's thing. But you may get the end result you are looking for.
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Hi friends please write me how run cdART Manager Script on cinflunace skin ; thanks.
Im try find solution but im see erorr when i can run this script.
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giftie
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Full debug logs posted to Pastebin or xbmclogs are always required for troubleshooting.
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My music is stored as
/Music/A/Adele
CD Art manager puts the artist thumbs in
/Music/Adele
Is there a way to get CD art to respect the ABC subfolders?
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giftie
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2013-12-30, 03:38
(This post was last modified: 2013-12-30, 04:20 by giftie.)
The problem is that XBMC does not provide an artist path, since it can have many different paths. The script uses a method that is supported by many skins. Once XBMC makes it possible to set artwork in the Music Library this won't be a problem.
So no it is not possible..