Music Video Support

To Kodi Dev Team (Kodi 18):

If there is just one fix that’s needed for Kodi 18 Music please let it be to properly support Music Videos (specifically Music Video Concerts really).

Currently there is a bit of a hack to group individual music videos (songs) by using NFOs and a tag <Album> (All Music Videos with the Same <Album> tag get grouped together. However:

– There is no JSON query that returns Music Video ‘Albums’ hence there is no Remote App that supports Music Videos by enabling an ‘Album’ view.
– No Kodi 17 Skins that I’ve seen support the ‘Album’ view either (is there a Music Video Album node? – in most I get to see ALL my music videos sorted by Song which is useless especially with 200 odd concerts (I have 200 songs starting with 01. …)

A little bit of work would solve these issues (I think).

Support for Artist thumbnails requires the Music Video Artist to be in the Kodi Music (Audio) Library. This does not always happen – I have a few Music Video Concerts where the Artist is not in my Audio Library. Maybe Kodi can support an ‘artist.jpg’ for music videos? (i.e. use ‘artist.jpg’ from the Music Concert folder if it exists).

I don’t think we need a total redesign of Music Videos (otherwise it will never get done). Let’s just implement something that works with how the data is scrapped and stored now. We just need to finish/tweak a few views.

Dave? Can you please give this some priority for Kodi 18? There are many Kodi user affected by this.

THX
Garry