Make music archive visible to Kodi

Hi,

I have configured Kodi properly to rip music-CD’s and to store them as FLAC on disk. This works fine and the grabbed CDs then appear in the list of recent CDs within the UI of Kodi. They also seem to be made available via UPNP.

Now I have a huge archive of additional music from an previous media center software. It has the same structure like the Kodi-ripped music and also comes with cover images in same format, so copying it into the same directory was easy.

My problem: this new music does not appear in the list of recent CD’s and it is not streamed via UPNP. To access this muic I always have to go via “Files”-menu to choose the folder where it is stored – then replaying works fine. So how can I announce this additional artists/albums/tracks to Kodi so that it works like the ripped ones?

Thanks!