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Really need some help with this. What I'm trying to do is have alums listed by album artist only. If an album has a featured artist, like a duet, I don't want both artists listed in the library, just the album artist.
I've gone through a few albums and edited the artist and album artist fields to have just the album artist (wanting Elton John duets listed only under Elton John). When I update the library, nothing changes, I have moved artists from my music folder, cleaned library, updated library and still no change. What appears to be happening is if I had this song (Say Something - A Great Big World & Christina Aguilera) I change tags to A Great Big World, do the library clean/update thing, and things don't change. I have moved all music from my music folder and the library still lists the non-existent files. Hope I explained this ok. Thanks.
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Have you gut much in your music library as it might be easier deleting your music database file and rescanning
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That's want I've been forced to do. Fairly extensive library takes quite a while to update from scratch.
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2015-06-11, 17:26
(This post was last modified: 2015-06-11, 17:27 by whitebelly.)
I have found that simply renaming the containing folder name sometimes helps, or remaining the files themselves. I'll add the year, or a dash or something benign, any change does it.
Although usually it is not necessary to do anything.
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I forgot to add that I'm using the latest Isengard nightly and Windoz 7,if that matters.
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2015-06-11, 17:50
(This post was last modified: 2015-06-11, 17:56 by BatterPudding.)
I'm still on the official release of Helix and have my albums behaving in the way you are asking for based on tweaking a few of the files based on my post above. No idea about the next beta and would be surprised if much had changed on that side.
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2015-06-11, 18:23
(This post was last modified: 2015-06-11, 18:45 by BatterPudding.)
Look in the Settings \ Audio and you can tell KODI to ignore them. (Quicker than deleting them)
Settings -> Music -> Library -> Override song tags with online information (See FAQ in above post)
There is a long drawn out thread somewhere about some argument or other about the way multiple artists are handled. You are like me - don't care who the second singer is. Just want to see the artist who released the album as the artist the album gets listed under.
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2015-06-11, 18:44
(This post was last modified: 2015-06-11, 18:44 by whitebelly.)
Settings--Music--Library--Override tags with Online information
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1. Note that all album artists are added to the library as found in tags -- there is no "main" album artist.
2. Musicbrainz tags serve to drive the online scraping. In themselves they do not change what goes into the library, though an album artist with album artist MBID, and the same album artist (in a different file) without MBID (or with different MBID) will be considered as different artists.
3. "Prefer online information" (as Isengard calls it) will use the results of scraping to fill artist information, in particular the artist name, in the database.
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