Music folders and images from IBN/artists

[PBzeer 6]

My music collection is in a folder labeled music, which then contains folders by artist name, many with multiple albums. While I get the album art when I go to the individual album, I've yet to find a way to populate the artist name folders with an image, unless I manually upload it. I've looked everywhere on the server to enable using IBN/artists, but have found nothing to help. My people images work in movies and videos, but I can't seem to find a way to point the server to the IBN/artists folder for my parent folder.

 

Is this just not possible, or am I missing something?

[ebr 14927]

If it is structured how you say, we should recognize those as Music Artists and fetch any information we can find automatically - if you enable that fetching in the metadata settings.

 

If you go into the web client and view by Artist, do they show up?

[PBzeer 6]

Yes, they show up in the Artists tab. That's not the problem (or annoyance, however you want to look at it.

 

Music/

   Artist Name (no image)/

      Album (image) (single or multiple albums)/

         Songs

 

When I open MBC, then click on Music, all I see are folders without images, until I click on the folder, where I then see the Album image/s.

 

For my Classical music (a separate media folder), I simply made my own images, which works fine. Unfortuantely, my Music folder is over ten times larger (folder wise) and I really don't want to have to find all the art or create it ... unless I have to.

[ebr 14927]

Do you have metadata fetching enabled for Music?

 

[PBzeer 6]

Yep, enabled it for everything, just to be sure.

[PBzeer 6]

Okay, hopefully this works for a visual:

 

When I click on the Music folder, I get this (Images were manually placed)

 

 

Then, when I click on the artist, whether with or without image, I get this:

 

 

And this:

 

 

It seems like the first screen should be filled by logos (when available) or a pic of the artist.

[Koleckai Silvestri 1150]

Album images are usually stored within the MP3 container. For artists, I had to manually download a lot of the thumbnails and background images. The sources just aren't as reliable as they are for movies and television.

[ebr 14927]

For one thing that is the old classic theme which has limited options and is not going to be added to much anymore.  You might try Chocolate.

 

If you want a backdrop on those artist folder views, you'll need to have backdrops for the artists and use a theme/view that supports them.

[BATTLE DONKEY 98]

If the artist image shows up in the web client then it should also show up in MBClassic automatically. Have u tried refreshing the artist image in MBClassic by going to the artist and pressing the record button on ur remote control, or Ctrl + R on the keyboard?

[PBzeer 6]

Same thing with Chocolate, and yes, I've refreshed. (I'm working on some custom backdrops)

 

It's not a big deal, as I can do it manually and I have the time to do it.

 

Thanks for the suggestions.