I am using a view for albums that includes an infopanel with “style,” “type,” and “mood” listed at the top.
I figured “type” should be taken care of, given that my files (alac) are all tagged with MusicBrainz Picard and include the “Release Type” tag (e.g. “single,” “album,” sometimes multi-value like “album; remix” etc.). However the “type” info rarely shows up. Seems like only 1 out of 20 actually list it.
The “style” and “mood” fields seem to be populated more frequently, however I cannot see any tag that this info is associated with. I assume the info has been scraped and is not actually embedded in the files.
And an odd thing I have noticed – I have yet to find an album that has all three fields filled in! Albums with “type” data never have anything listed for the other categories. “Style” seems to be the most common and is paired with “mood” data about half of the time.
My questions:
1) Are any of these data types actually embedded in the files? In the case of Release Type, I am not sure if my the sporadic data is from inconsistent tag reading or just inconsistent scraping.
2) If the data is all being scraped, is there a way to get more complete results? I already have MBID identifiers in my tags. I do not have “prefer online information” enabled since I have already used Picard and don’t wish to have anything overwritten by Kodi. Are there other tags, maybe in an older format or something, that might interfere with proper scraping?
For what it’s worth, I am using the “shift” albums view in the MadNox skin. I love leaving that infopanel on, but it gets annoying seeing “No info available” on like 80% of the content. If that could be remedied I would be 100% sold on these view settings. Any insight appreciated, thanks!