Hello Kodi Community,
This is my first post here. First off, I must thank everyone who’s contributed for making such a great piece of software, and for keeping it open!
I have been using Kodi v.16 on win7 for a few months now. And it has been working great for streaming my movie and tv show library via http. I love how it scrapes for artwork and information!
My next step is to try and get my music library into Kodi and I’ve been having issues with the Album art not showing up.
I have followed the guides and have run the music through musicbrainz first and tagged it all. The album art shows up in musicbrainz properly. And all the id’s are present and saved.
When I then add the newly musicbrainzed files there is no album art showing up!
I figured I must be doing something wrong, so i’ve tried a number of things. I have read about having folder.jpeg and image.tbn files in the folders. I’ve tried that and it’s not working for me.
I’ve noticed that in some cases, and I can’t figure out why, the thumbnails do show up, but only 1 or 2 percent of the albums have this. I’ve analyzed these folders to see if there’s anything
unique about them, but they are the same as the others that don’t have the artwork. In Kodi I can go into each album and get info and then add the thumb manually and it it will then work. But this would
take too long to do manually. I have also noticed that if I add a folder with a few albums in it and don’t add it to the library some album art shows up, but then when I add those albums into the library the
thumbnails then disappear! If I then get info on the album, the thumbnail appears in the window but won’t be remembered until i actually click the get thumb button and manually select the same thumbnail file!
I think this must be a bug? as from what I understand the musicbrainz step should just make this work properly?
this is happening on windows7 as well as on mac os 10.10 using Kodi v.16.
thanks for any help or advice.
Brucifer