vmcosco 19 Posted January 31, 2016 Share Posted January 31, 2016 So I have a question regarding Music sync. I am just not sure how it works. It is possible this is a skin or skin widgets issue. Let me know. If I need explore elsewhere. I am running Emby on Win7 and Kodi 15.2 on Fire TV with Titan skin Videos are working great. I add a new show or movie to my folder. Emby picks it up. Kodi updates. New video shows in the recently added widget. All good. Music is throwing me off. I add a new album to my folder. Emby picks it up. At some point the album shows in Kodi but only in the album list or in recent items when I open it from the music section. Recently added widget never updates until I do a library update in Kodi. That seems odd as I didn't think a library update would ever be neccesary in Kodi when I switched to Emby. So, maybe the recently added widget is a widget issue, but could someone explain what I should expect in Kodi when I add a new album to my music folder and Emby picks it up. Also, I just changed the date added for a bunch of albums and songs. What will be the most effective way to get those changes pushed out to Kodi? Loving the add on except for these few small things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angelblue05 4130 Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 The way the add-on works is when the server does something, the server tells the add-on what it did. I have just tested it adding a new album and it's picked up instantly. However you are correct, the widget does not reflect the new content. I'm looking to see if this can be corrected. How did you change the date added? Are the changes reflected in the emby metadata manager? If so, then it should be already be changed in Kodi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vmcosco 19 Posted February 1, 2016 Author Share Posted February 1, 2016 How did you change the date added? Are the changes reflected in the emby metadata manager? If so, then it should be already be changed in Kodi. I changed the date added in the Emby server metadata manager Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angelblue05 4130 Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 (edited) Don't run the update library for music (it doesn't run the same way as for video library). It will mess with the database and delete entries. You will need to reset the database now to fix your music. I am looking for the widget refresh. I will let you know. Edited February 1, 2016 by Angelblue05 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vmcosco 19 Posted February 1, 2016 Author Share Posted February 1, 2016 Don't run the update library for music (it doesn't run the same way as for video library). It will mess with the database and delete entries. You will need to reset the database now to fix your music. I am looking for the widget refresh. I will let you know. No problem to reset the database. I do have a question though... I have run out of space. Kodi is now taking up 4.2gb on my FireTv. Every time I do a database reset Kodi data increases by 1gb. How can clear space and prevent the Emby add on from storing so much data? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angelblue05 4130 Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 You can disable artwork cache in the add-on settings. However, to help without disabling the setting, you can delete the thumbnails folder (we don't delete cached artwork when you reset, so it's possible there's old cached artwork building up). Then reset your library to fix your music. We just delete cached artwork when the item is actually removed from your emby server. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vmcosco 19 Posted February 1, 2016 Author Share Posted February 1, 2016 You can disable artwork cache in the add-on settings. However, to help without disabling the setting, you can delete the thumbnails folder (we don't delete cached artwork when you reset, so it's possible there's old cached artwork building up). Then reset your library to fix your music. We just delete cached artwork when the item is actually removed from your emby server. Where can I find the artwork cache? I always struggle a bit finding these files/folders on the FireTV. Thanks. Sorry for hijacking my own thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angelblue05 4130 Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 I'm not sure if you are referring to the cache setting or the actual thumbnails folder. Artwork cache setting: In Kodi > settings > add-ons > my add-ons > video add-ons > emby. Open the configurations, under the sync tab, disable the option to cache artwork. There's no automatic way of doing this. Thumbnails folder is found in the userdata folder. Delete it, Kodi will recreate it and start the cache fresh. You can also redirect your thumbnails to another location, this way it doesn't take place directly on your firetv storage. http://kodi.wiki/view/HOW-TO:Reduce_XBMC_disk_space_usage Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angelblue05 4130 Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 @@marcelveldt Do you know of a way to force reload music widgets? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcelveldt 736 Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 @@marcelveldt Do you know of a way to force reload music widgets? skinhelper should detect changes to the music database itself and refresh the widgets. There was however some small bug in the code a few months back resulting the widgets path for music widgets missing the window prop needed to refresh. In this case I suggest the user to re-add the music widgets to his shortcuts to see if that helps. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vmcosco 19 Posted February 1, 2016 Author Share Posted February 1, 2016 In this case I suggest the user to re-add the music widgets to his shortcuts to see if that helps. So just go into customize shortcuts, remove all of the music widgets, exit out, go back in and add the recently added widget back in? This is a fresh install on Friday so I should have the most recent skin helper version already though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vmcosco 19 Posted February 2, 2016 Author Share Posted February 2, 2016 (edited) skinhelper should detect changes to the music database itself and refresh the widgets. There was however some small bug in the code a few months back resulting the widgets path for music widgets missing the window prop needed to refresh. In this case I suggest the user to re-add the music widgets to his shortcuts to see if that helps. I removed all widgets from my music home menus entry. Quit and restarted Kodi. Added widgets for recently added albums and random albums. No change in behavior. If I enter into Music and Recently Added from submenu, the recently added albums show as suspected (I modified the date added for a handful of songs/albums to yesterday and they show in that order). The recent items widget on the homescreen does not reflect those changes. Additionally, the random albums widget has not changed in an hour despite my random setting being 10 mins. Not sure if that is a similar bug or not. Edited February 2, 2016 by vmcosco Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vmcosco 19 Posted February 2, 2016 Author Share Posted February 2, 2016 I removed all widgets from my music home menus entry. Quit and restarted Kodi. Added widgets for recently added albums and random albums. No change in behavior. If I enter into Music and Recently Added from submenu, the recently added albums show as suspected (I modified the date added for a handful of songs/albums to yesterday and they show in that order). The recent items widget on the homescreen does not reflect those changes. Additionally, the random albums widget has not changed in an hour despite my random setting being 10 mins. Not sure if that is a similar bug or not. I did another restart after resetting the widgets. This seems to have fixed the issue. The recently added widget picked of the correct albums. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcelveldt 736 Posted February 2, 2016 Share Posted February 2, 2016 I did another restart after resetting the widgets. This seems to have fixed the issue. The recently added widget picked of the correct albums. OK, please keep an eye on it and let me know if the issue returns. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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