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![]() ![]() I do this since I have issues with how kodi exports the music library nfo’s, I have recordings from unpublished artists, and will reject a lot of artwork due to not having copyright notices. I prefer to scrape all music collection off line and store the artwork and nfo’s locally like I do with my video collection. Everything is organized in “Drive:/album artist/album (year)/track. I use picard to meticulously tag all my music. Since you seem to know about Kodi and music tagging I’m wondering if I can get some feedback on a couple questions. If you want to automate the process even more then turn on in the options > general > automatically scan new files. ![]() It should take only a few clicks to fix any album. MB picard is a great bit of software when you learn how to use it. Sign up for Fanart.TV and to enter this information for everyone in the future. If coverart or description does not show up then it may not be on the metadata sites. ![]() Now the album has MusicBrainz tags you should be able to scan it using the universal album scraper and it will find all cover art or details. If it is not you can fix it manually with a drag and drop. The album should be yellow and show all tracks present you can now click "Save" and the tags will be saved. If you cant find the correct album, you can click "Lookup" to manually find it on MusicBrainz. If there are multiple albums on the right then drag and drop any individual tracks into the correct album name Now the album name should be showing on the right hand window. Load up picard and click "Add Folder" to show the album in the left hand, it should show as unmatched filesĬlick the "Cluster" button to put them all in an album Options > Tags > Tag compatibility > ID3v2 Version 2.4 Options > Fingerprinting - Use AcoustiID (You can get an API key here) Options > Coverart - Untick Embed Cover images into tags (you can keep save cover images as separate files but I prefer to let the scrapers download the covers) Since XBMC can now read MusicBrainz tags, it will always match an album perfectly if you have run it through Picard and saved the new tags. Once you get it setup though it can fix an album with about 3 clicks automatically. Musicbrainz Picard is a great bit of software but has a steep learning curve. If you are having trouble importing your music and getting missing data or covers then there is an easy way to fix your tags and get perfect scraping every time. ![]()
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