2015-11-25, 10:18
As far as I understand it (and I could be wrong here), but reading between the lines, Jarvis is going to add support for the MusicBrainz 'ARTIST' tag, which I assume would add the relevant MBID's directly to the Kodi music library database, i.e on the first scrape as a pose to updates. Up till now this hasn't been possible, hence the reason cdART manager created it's own Db. But by doing that, it essentially requires the equivalent of 3 complete scans of the library. Once to add the tracks to Kodi, a second time to add those same tracks to cdART Manager's database, and then a 3rd time if you have 'check MBID's to be current' enabled.
I would of thought, with Jarvis supporting MBID's for artist, parts 1 and 3 will be performed during the initial library scan, hence removing the need for step 2 altogether. Some are going to use NFO's regardless. I'm pretty sure Universal Artist/Album scraper used MusicBrainz as a metadata source, so with this in mind it shouldn't be necessary for any external tagging to get support for MBIDs. However I did read somewhere that MusicBrainz has a limit on the number of requests performed against it's Db to prevent DDoS-like activity, whether that applies to people with accounts on MusicBrainz or not I don't know.
On a different note, I'd welcome the ability to exclude certain folders from cdART Manager scanning, as I have some albums (anime, game soundtracks,etc) that will never appear on MusicBrainz, so processing them is a waste of time. I have several root level folders set up in order to segregate these categories of music from the 'regular' albums for identification purposes among other things. For me it would probably greatly reduce the length of time spent on library scans. Not a priority request, just something that cdART Manager currently lacks.
I would of thought, with Jarvis supporting MBID's for artist, parts 1 and 3 will be performed during the initial library scan, hence removing the need for step 2 altogether. Some are going to use NFO's regardless. I'm pretty sure Universal Artist/Album scraper used MusicBrainz as a metadata source, so with this in mind it shouldn't be necessary for any external tagging to get support for MBIDs. However I did read somewhere that MusicBrainz has a limit on the number of requests performed against it's Db to prevent DDoS-like activity, whether that applies to people with accounts on MusicBrainz or not I don't know.
On a different note, I'd welcome the ability to exclude certain folders from cdART Manager scanning, as I have some albums (anime, game soundtracks,etc) that will never appear on MusicBrainz, so processing them is a waste of time. I have several root level folders set up in order to segregate these categories of music from the 'regular' albums for identification purposes among other things. For me it would probably greatly reduce the length of time spent on library scans. Not a priority request, just something that cdART Manager currently lacks.