[gibxxi]

Hey everyone, so an update.

I have some good news, and bad news. There is always something = )

Good news is, using MusicBrainz Picard, I went through and organized my entire library, and I gotta say, it looks great. So I went to add it to my library, no problem there. Opened up cdArt Manager (stef.ans modded one for helix), and it is working great! I have yet to try artist slideshow, but it is working well.

One minor problem, I am getting dupes in my library view, even though their are none in my library. I have 3 "Kid Cudi", all spelled exactly the same, and I don't seem to know why. I've heard its the tags? I used musicbrainz for it all, so I thought they would be okay. Also, I used the AudioDB scraper when adding as a source, and enabled the option to have the scraper override/update song information.

Can anybody point me in the right direction here? My OCD is killing me... hahaha.

Thanks again everyone, I am making progress! =D

In picard settings, set it to clear previous tags before writing, there may be a tag that is not being displayed.

This thread will tell you why your seeing what your seeing: http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=198149

I typed a long-winded reply to the OP, but accidentally closed the browser and don't feel like typing it all over again. Suffice to say the issues covered in the above thread are exacerbated when using the Universal Music Scrapers, and will GREATLY prolong library scan / update times if you have "Download Additional Info During Updates" turned on for music. The only thing you can do to make this issue slightly less painful depending on your musical tastes is to use the MusicBrainz Picard script "Feat. Artists Removed" - The one that moves all feat. artists to the comments section. However that won't improve the situation for true multi-artist albums. And/Or use the AudioDB scrapers until a fix/workaround becomes available.

Kodi also doesn't support the way MusicBrainz assigns Multi-Artist values for the "Album Artist" tag, which is why you see duplicates in the library. Does this mean tagging with MusicBrainz is not recommended? Depends on your point of view. If Kodi is your only concern with regards your music library, at this time it's not recommended. Just use the "override local tags with online information" setting instead and hope for the best. However if "general" tagging consistency is required for use with Kodi, and other software, then I'd still say go for it. There needs to be some movement from both parties to reach the promised land of full MusicBrainz support in Kodi, but I think this may be on the horizon given the discussions I have read.

The short story is that Kodi simply doesn't recognize 80% of the extended tags MusicBrainz writes to your music, but still attempts to parse them (with the Universal Album/Artist Scrapers) and will attempt to fetch information from the web for that artist/album which will incur a 30 second timeout and failure for EACH SONG in the album. The Universal scripts have been updated since this issue became known, but what (if anything) relating to this issue may have been fixed is unknown by me since I don't want to wait another 48 hours just for another library scan to complete at this point in time.

YMMV.