A thumb for individual music files will be read from tag data embedded in the music file providing the Enable tag reading setting is enabled.The “thumb” for the folder on display is picked up from any suitably named image file found in that folder. Every folder in the hierarchical structure can have an associated “thumb” artwork.The only type of art supported is thumb artwork.If music files have been scanned into the library, then all available artwork supported by the skin and view, along with metadata, are displayed.įor non-scanned music files and folders artwork in file view mode is as follows:.If the music files have not been scanned into the library, then only the album cover artwork from local files is displayed when using Files mode.It is simply a file browser that allows you to view and play your media even though it has not been scanned and/or scraped into the Library. The newer scrapers will use the above settings when scraping and no adjustment in scraper settings for artwork is required.įile View Mode is similar to using the file manager provided by your operating system- eg Explorer in Windows systems. The Kodi music scrapers can automatically download artwork without any extra effort from the user. All other images are ignored.Ī list of embedded tags recognised by Kodi is available here. It can only extract the "Front Cover" image assuming they have been tagged correctly within the file. Kodi cannot recognise multiple embedded images in a song file. It does not currently support embedded album art in APEv2 tags or Ogg files. Kodi supports embedded album art in mp3 files with ID3v2 tags, WMA/WMV files with ASF tags, FLAC files with Vorbis comments/Xiph tags, and mp4 files with itunes tags. When local art of the types nominated in the settings page is not found then the first avialable art of that type returned by the scraper is automatically applied as part of scraping. Settings > Media > Music > ArtworkĪrtwork from local files is automatically picked up and applied as part of music library scanning or scraping. Mixing songs from different albums will lead to unexpected results.Īrtwork settings for the music library are adjusted in the Kodi settings pages here. This folder is identified from the music files it contains, not the folder name.Īlbum folders with the correct songs from that album must be used when using local artwork.
Local album artwork is saved in the album folder (shown in image). Once the library is created, the second step of downloading additional information and artwork from online sources can be performed. Note: The music library is created from the embedded tags in the music files. For more details see Artwork Types Commonly Supported Artwork The following artwork types are standard for albums and supported by many skins. This page details information specific to artwork for albums in the music library.
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