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Artist name in title of music video - Jover - 2022-12-17
Hi
I've got a collection of some "music video's" that I wanted to view in Kodi (19.4). I've made .nfo files for every single video, I also made custom nodes for each artist and everything works fine, there's just 1 thing that's bothering me. When I click on a custom node to only see video's from a specific artist, every title has the artist in the name.
For example: I have a video I've named "example name" from artist "Jover", in Kodi it would then show it as "Jover - example name".
When I try and edit the title, I can only edit "example name". Meaning I'm stuck with the "Jover - " part.
When I try to see all the video's (by title) the artist is still in the name, but now it's after the file name: "example name - Jover".
Is this normal or is this a bug?
Is there any way to not display the artist in the title of the video? (preferably by adjusting a setting, or if that's not possible could this be removed by editing a .xml file?)
RE: Artist name in title of music video - scott967 - 2022-12-20
Need to know your skin. In general, Kodi internally creates a variable "label" and "label2" that's intended to be shown to the left and right respectively, regardless of media type. That makes it easier to skin. But there are also specific variables available for things like "title" and "artist" which skin can use to fine-tune the displayed info based on media type (typically). Also keep in mind what you see for an item that is in the library can be different from that shown for something that is not in the library -- typical is a skin can determine the media type for a library item but not for a "non-library" item so what gets displayed may differ.
scott s.
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RE: Artist name in title of music video - Jover - 2022-12-20
Thanks for responding.
If I understand it correctly, you have 2 labels, is "label" then the title and "label2" the artist (or the other way around)?
You also said "which skin can use to fine-tune the displayed info based on media type", does this mean that I can change the displayed info (like only display 1 label)? If so, how?
If this isn't possible, do you know which file has the code that displays the music videos? (maybe I could just change the code to my liking)
I suppose it's located in this folder "Kodi\addons\skin.estuary\xml", but I don't know exactly which file it is.
Thank you in advance
RE: Artist name in title of music video - scott967 - 2022-12-24
The display is skin-controlled in file myvideosnav.xml, but typical is that skin provides several "views" (list/wall, etc) and each of these views is provided as an "include", and you probably have to figure out which views you are interested in and do a search in all of the skin's xml files to find the include (Estuary has a custom file per view). Within a view there will be a main container (lists, poster, etc) with "layout" and "focusedlayout" sections and in there the "label" control (needed in both sections). Often the content of these "label"s are set by a variable that changes the label based on content type so you need to find that variable again search by name and see where it specifies the label for musicvideo, then change to your liking.
scott s.
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RE: Artist name in title of music video - Jover - 2023-01-02
Thanks for the explanation of the structure. I've managed to adjust it the way I want it to.
I had to change "$INFO[ListItem.Label]" to "$INFO[ListItem.Title]" in the view I use and also in the Variables.xml file. (for both the focusedlayout and the itemlayout like you mentioned)
Thanks again for your time and effort, I definitely would not have figured all of this out by myself.
RE: Artist name in title of music video - scott967 - 2023-01-03
Glad it is working for you. Happy new year. If you aren't careful you can get sucked into skin modding, tweaking just a little here and there next thing you know you're a skinner.
scott s.
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