(2016-03-18, 19:08)accagì Wrote: I wanted the composers on the first level (together with albums etc.) and not hidden in the roles. Krypton offers a simple way to have it, step by step:

- enter node editor (options panel on the left)
- new node, give it a name ("Compositori" for me; I live in Italy)
- still in the editor click the new node
- add path (add content doesn't work, because it doesn't offer neither roles nor composers): musicdb://artists/?role=Composer

I found the path clicking (in the editor) Roles -> Composers

It works!

UPDATE:

Since the node editor currently does not work ( ? A problem of the alpha version ? ) , I opened the xml file and I found that thus the purpose of having e.g. composers on the first level may be reached in an even better way :

- Open the file .kodi / userdata / library / music / musicroles / Composers.xml

< ? Xml version = ' 1.0 ' encoding = ' UTF - 8 ' ? >
<Node order = " 1 " type = "folder" visible = " Library.HasContent (Role , Composer ) " >
<Label > Composers < / label>
<Icon > DefaultMusicGenres.png < / icon >
< Path> musicdb : // artists / ? Role = Composer < / path>
< / Node >

- Delete the "visible " in the second line that the file looks like this

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<node order="1" type="folder">
<label>Compositori</label>
<icon>DefaultMusicGenres.png</icon>
<path>musicdb://artists/?role=Composer</path>
</node>

- Save it on the first level .kodi / userdata / library / music / Composers.xml

Done!

(2016-05-23, 21:29)zag Wrote: NOTE: If you tag with musicbrainz picard, you should get all album names perfectly correct and standard so that this works.

(2016-06-02, 06:11)Govnah Wrote: Having an issue separating/filtering my MP3s and FLAC music directories. My paths are as follows and added both paths and scanned successfully in KODI, /Music/Lossy/Artist/Album and /Music/Lossless/Artist/Album. Created Smart Playlists and Nodes based off of path. No matter what I attempt, KODI always includes all album/music.

Any suggestions would be welcomed and I have read all the posts and suggestions without success. Should I create the nodes before adding and scanning into KODI?

(2016-05-31, 03:06)HomerJau Wrote: Can someone please point me to info regarding the icons used by nodes?

1. Where are the default icons located? (Maybe I can use those)
2. Where can user icons be located? (I'd like to use 'userdata' if poosible)
3. What resolution for user defined icons?

(2016-06-02, 10:06)DaveBlake Wrote:

(2016-06-02, 06:11)Govnah Wrote: Having an issue separating/filtering my MP3s and FLAC music directories. My paths are as follows and added both paths and scanned successfully in KODI, /Music/Lossy/Artist/Album and /Music/Lossless/Artist/Album. Created Smart Playlists and Nodes based off of path. No matter what I attempt, KODI always includes all album/music.

Any suggestions would be welcomed and I have read all the posts and suggestions without success. Should I create the nodes before adding and scanning into KODI?

Govnah I suspect you need to add a % at the end of your path rules. Post the node files here so we can see what you are doing.

Nodes can be created after scanning, makes no difference.

(2016-06-02, 17:53)DaveBlake Wrote: Govnah for filtering albums or songs to separate your two kinds of music in /Music/Lossy/Artist/Album and /Music/Lossless/Artist/Album I would use the "startswith" operator rather than "is". e.g.

(2016-06-02, 18:31)DaveBlake Wrote: Not sure re-installation will help you, as I can't see what could prevent rules from working. Going to probably ask silly questions now, but something has been overlooked or misunderstood somewhere....

You have scanned your music files and created a library. The standard nodes list genres, artists, albums, songs etc. You then create a smart playlist of type "albums" with rule "path" "startswith" "C:\users\patgu\music\lossless\". Then click on that playlist what songs do you see? Perhaps provide screenshots of playlist editor and end results?

Edit: Ah, hang on may have found a bug in 16.1