2015-10-12, 13:38
(2015-10-07, 06:29)Greg. Wrote: what hv i missed?
run musicbrain on some 26000 songs. great prog that tho i barely understand
thinking it just organises metadata, i decided to run cdart, both the repo and git vers
regardless of config, had most success with git, but it does nothing but flash a dialog 2 fast to read!
BUT seems redundant, appears mbrn scraped artist fanart anyway.
any1?
From experience, MusicBrainz is not only limited in the sites it will download art from (and I don't think fanart.tv is on that list) the naming of the artwork file naming will not be consistent with what Kodi expects to see. Also, you won't get artist thumbnails / banners etc, by default.
cdART Manager gets most of it's artwork from fanart.tv, where only high-quality artwork is allowed. It won't modify your music tags, which means no artwork embedding in tags, but your folder.jpg files, and cdart.png files will be a lot higher quality for those artists matched, than anything MusicBrainz will provide via Picard.
If your getting a flash dialog that disappears quickly, this suggests to me that you either have no cdART Manager database (you need to create one), it's empty, or none of your artists have been matched. Go through the menu system to a manual search for an artwork type. You ought to see a list of artists. If none of yours are green at all, it's not matching your artists for some reason. Try either a 'refresh add-on database' or an 'Update' to ensure the cdART Manager database has been created correctly and has been populated.
<cdART-Manager> -> <Advanced> -> <Update / Refresh add-on database>
I'd also suggest making sure your music library is up to date first, as cdART database building can take a while.