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+--- Thread: How to show track list of music albums ? (/showthread.php?tid=253065)
How to show track list of music albums ? - malvinas2 - 2015-12-21
I tagged all my mp3's with MP3Tag and additionally created nfo-files with MediaElch for each artist and album.
Nevertheless, when showing information about the album the tracks are not listed / shown.
I assumed, Kodi is reading the files within the album-directory to get this information. Obviously this is not the case.
So, what do I have to do, that Kodi shows the tracks of the album ?
RE: How to show track list of music albums ? - DaveBlake - 2015-12-22
There are 2 places that you can see the tracks for an album, and they are populated with data from different places.
1) From the album list node if you click on an album then the song list node is displayed listing the songs that you have for that album.
2) From the album list node if you choose "Album Information" from the context menu (as you have done above) then dialog box shows the album information. If all you have done is scan the song files into the library then this is limited to the data derrived from the tags (artist, genre, rating etc. as you see above). Additional data e.g. album review, track listing (a list of tracks for the album regardless of if you have them or not) can be shown if this data has been scraped from either an external data source such as TheAudioDB or from your own NFO files.
To see this additional information you need to set the default scraper settings for the music source (in your case to NFO) and then "Query Information for All Albums" from the context menu.
The dev team is aware that this is not obvious or easy and will be making improvements in this area in future versions!
RE: How to show track list of music albums ? - malvinas2 - 2015-12-22
Hello Dave,
thank you for the detailed answer.
Having a look at the nfo-files created by MediaElch, none of them contains information about the track listing.
I suppose this feature isn't supported at the moment, something I am going to propose in their forum.
Nevertheless, what would be the necessary tags for the track listing in case I am adding it manually to the nfo-files ?
Where can I find information about the structure of nfo-files for music album ? Most sites just deal about nfo-files for movies and series.
(I should have mentioned that I am just using the local nfo-files created by MediaElch, no scraper or something else to import the information into Kodi.
Honestly said, the whole process how Kodi reads in music with the universal album scraper seems quite non-transparent to me, especially because I have got a lot of south-american albums for which you won't find information in allmusic or audiodb)
RE: How to show track list of music albums ? - ronie - 2015-12-22
it's documented in our wiki (of course) ;-)
http://kodi.wiki/view/NFO_files/music#Albums