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<blockquote data-quote="Lehmden" data-source="post: 1248732" data-attributes="member: 109222">Hi.It always uses the data from the MP2 database, nothing else. It did not matter at all where the data came from. You only can decide if the data is downloaded from various online sources (you select wich ones to use) or from metatags or from .nfo files or from any combination of those. Normally .nfo files will have the highest priority (if exist) as they can be added to nearly every kind of media. The next in the list are the metatags (if exist) as metatags can only be used for music and Matroska Videos (.mkv) (at least in MP2, there are a few other video container like .mp4 that can store metatags too but not used in MP2) and the lowest priority should have the online data.Sometimes this did not work exactly as planed at least for online data. There are too many possible errors while downloading data from online so you never can be 100% sure all ist perfect. That's why I never use online data at all, excerpt for Music Artist... I'm not finished with the Audio part of Media-Buddy that will add all the data that can not be stored in the ID3 tags (mainly data for artists like bio and artist fanart) ... As soon as Media-Buddy is ready I will create .nfo files for my audio collection too and will abandon every online download of fanart and metadata for music too as I do since many years for series and movies already. This way I'm completely independent from any online data sources and even from having an internet connection... But as told, Media-Buddy's audio part isn't ready yet and there is no other tool to create music- nfo files out there (excerpt for Kodi, means import music into Kodi and later export the library to &quot;multiple files&quot;)...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lehmden, post: 1248732, member: 109222"] Hi. It always uses the data from the MP2 database, nothing else. It did not matter at all where the data came from. You only can decide if the data is downloaded from various online sources (you select wich ones to use) or from metatags or from .nfo files or from any combination of those. Normally .nfo files will have the highest priority (if exist) as they can be added to nearly every kind of media. The next in the list are the metatags (if exist) as metatags can only be used for music and Matroska Videos (.mkv) (at least in MP2, there are a few other video container like .mp4 that can store metatags too but not used in MP2) and the lowest priority should have the online data. Sometimes this did not work exactly as planed at least for online data. There are too many possible errors while downloading data from online so you never can be 100% sure all ist perfect. That's why I never use online data at all, excerpt for Music Artist... I'm not finished with the Audio part of Media-Buddy that will add all the data that can not be stored in the ID3 tags (mainly data for artists like bio and artist fanart) ... As soon as Media-Buddy is ready I will create .nfo files for my audio collection too and will abandon every online download of fanart and metadata for music too as I do since many years for series and movies already. This way I'm completely independent from any online data sources and even from having an internet connection... But as told, Media-Buddy's audio part isn't ready yet and there is no other tool to create music- nfo files out there (excerpt for Kodi, means import music into Kodi and later export the library to "multiple files")... [/QUOTE]

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