I’ve been trying to get my music displayed in Kodi and have made a lot of progress, but I’m having some issues that I can’t really figure out and would appreciate any help.
1. My download computer is separate from my media computer. With the artist information, if I export the music library to separate files, then I get “fanart” and “folder” .jpg files and an artist.nfo in the folder for the artist. My download computer shows everybody who has a song on the (many) compilation albums. Where does the information and photo for those artists go? Is it exported? If so, where to?
2. Some of the albums haven’t “gone right”. I’ve used musicbrainz picard successfully with a lot of albums, but some have “sucked up” the wrong information (as in right person, but wrong album, or they’ve left one of a multi-cd set out) and I’ve managed to save it without realizing it was wrong. I’ve fixed the tags where it’s wrong using the MP3Tag program, but Kodi doesn’t seem to pay any attention to that, but is still using the musicbrainz tags. Is there a way of “nuking” the musicbrainz tags and getting kodi just to use the basic tags that I’ve corrected? I tried deleting the value for the disc id in musicbrainz, but it won’t delete.
3. Using musicbrainz, sometimes I’ve found the album manually and have the discid, but in “lookup” it says no matching releases are found and I have to search in the browser. I do that, then I’m supposed to drag over my files and they are supposed to match up. When I do that, instead of just finding the track name, it’s returned about a dozen with the same track name, none of which is green, they are all partly red/pink. I’ve found the exact album, and all the tracks are correct, is there a way to get it to just “suck up” the information using the disc id? Also, the instructions for musicbrainz says to use the “tagger” icon when you’ve found the album, but if I press on that it says “nothing to see here”.
4. When I’ve gone “refresh” on an artist on my download computer, it’s refreshed to somebody else. (for example, sarah vaughan is now verdi, and mozart is cliff richard). How can I “nuke” the wrong information and get it to have the right person again?
If anyone can help, I’d be grateful. I’m a bit (lot) confused as to tags and thumbnails and where everything is. The video section of Kodi seems much more straightforward.