Music view? (1 Viewer)

[Zinu]

Hello,

I have a music collection that has managed ID3 tags, so everything should be parsed well. However, how am I supposed to easily browse through my music collection?

When I enter my music section, I get a shares view, just showing what my music folder looks like. I don't want that, I want an artist view with artist thumbnails and such. Now when I sort by ARTIST it shows me A,B,C,D etc. under which are the artists.

I'm also missing artist thumbnails are album thumbnails.

Am I doing something wrong? Is there anything I have to change to make it show parsed artists, not 'id3 artists'? And how can I let it download artist and album thumbnails?

 

[dihoff]

hi (hallo),

i'm also curious about this - i have posted queries regarding this previously, but i haven't gotten very far with it.

i have used audioscrobbler to download images for artists/albums, however, these only display when using the artist view (a to z), which isn't very user friendly.

you can see previous posts i have regarding this topic under my name.

good luck (en groetjes),

diane.

 

[dihoff]

hi again,

you may have noticed these in the last few days:

https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/...ndler-plugin-v1-0-music-fanart-scraper-76535/

https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/streamedmp-301/streamedmp-music-files-using-fanart-handler-76710/

cheers,

dh.

 

[adam_purkis]

Hello,

I have a music collection that has managed ID3 tags, so everything should be parsed well. However, how am I supposed to easily browse through my music collection?

When I enter my music section, I get a shares view, just showing what my music folder looks like. I don't want that, I want an artist view with artist thumbnails and such. Now when I sort by ARTIST it shows me A,B,C,D etc. under which are the artists.

I'm also missing artist thumbnails are album thumbnails.

Am I doing something wrong? Is there anything I have to change to make it show parsed artists, not 'id3 artists'? And how can I let it download artist and album thumbnails?

when you sort by artist and it shows letters, if you would prefer for it to just show all the artists, rather than categorized by letter, you need to go into mediaportal config, and go in music>views, and on the dropdown box click artists, there should be a few things listed, you need to delete the one that has 'group' or something written.. do this by typing 'd' in one of the boxes.

sorry that is about as precise as i can get right now, im telling you all that off the top of my head.. there should be some other posts that explain it though. have a go

 

[kiwijunglist]

Zinu - I wrote a guide to setting up my music section, the link is in my sig. It covers all of your questions

 

[dihoff]

@dihoff - I wrote a guide to setting up my music section, the link is in my sig. It covers all of your questions

thanks kiwijunglist, things are looking good nowadays since i started using fanart handler & Trevor's changes for My Music, but i will gladly check out your guide for further possible improvements!

cheers,

dh.