2015-09-04, 06:06
It's really not recommended to change the artist/albumartist tags while keeping the musicbrainz id. But what would happen in this case:
If you don't have prefere online info and don't have fetch additional information enabled, you should get the following:
In the artist view:
Favorite artist
Favorite artist
(Same name, but different mbrainz id)
If you have prefer online info and fetch additional information, you would have the following in the artist view:
Wyclef Jean
Cyndi Lauper
When a new artist with a new musicbrainzid is encountered, it will be added to the kodi database with the alias as the name. When finding a more songs by that musicbrainzid, those will be linked to that artist (since from the tags we can't know which name is the real name).
So for example, first we add the song (with prefer online information disabled)
Artist = Wyclef Jean feat. Cyndi Lauper aka Luscious Loo Loo
Artists=Wyclef Jean / Cyndi Lauper aka Luscious Loo Loo
Title = Slumdog Millionaire
MusicBrainz Artist Id=4f29ecd7-21a5-4c03-b9ba-d0cfe9488f8c / 7bd9e20e-74b9-446a-a2ed-a223f82a36e7
We then have the following information in Kodi:
Wyclef Jean
Song: Wyclef Jean feat. Cyndi Lauper aka Luscious Loo Loo - Slumdog Millionaire
Cyndi Lauper aka Luscious Loo Loo
Song: Wyclef Jean feat. Cyndi Lauper aka Luscious Loo Loo - Slumdog Millionaire
We then add one more song,
Artist = Cyndi Lauper
Artists= Cyndi Lauper
Title = Girls Just Want to Have Fun
MusicBrainz Artist Id= 7bd9e20e-74b9-446a-a2ed-a223f82a36e7
The our library would look like this:
Wyclef Jean
Song: Wyclef Jean feat. Cyndi Lauper aka Luscious Loo Loo - Slumdog Millionaire
Cyndi Lauper aka Luscious Loo Loo
Song: Wyclef Jean feat. Cyndi Lauper aka Luscious Loo Loo - Slumdog Millionaire
Song: Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Want to Have Fun
If you enable prefer online information and refresh the artists (or kept it enabled during scanning and enabled fetch additional information), it will look like this:
Wyclef Jean
Song: Wyclef Jean feat. Cyndi Lauper aka Luscious Loo Loo - Slumdog Millionaire
Cyndi Lauper
Song: Wyclef Jean feat. Cyndi Lauper aka Luscious Loo Loo - Slumdog Millionaire
Song: Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Want to Have Fun
I hope it makes sense
If you don't have prefere online info and don't have fetch additional information enabled, you should get the following:
In the artist view:
Favorite artist
Favorite artist
(Same name, but different mbrainz id)
If you have prefer online info and fetch additional information, you would have the following in the artist view:
Wyclef Jean
Cyndi Lauper
When a new artist with a new musicbrainzid is encountered, it will be added to the kodi database with the alias as the name. When finding a more songs by that musicbrainzid, those will be linked to that artist (since from the tags we can't know which name is the real name).
So for example, first we add the song (with prefer online information disabled)
Artist = Wyclef Jean feat. Cyndi Lauper aka Luscious Loo Loo
Artists=Wyclef Jean / Cyndi Lauper aka Luscious Loo Loo
Title = Slumdog Millionaire
MusicBrainz Artist Id=4f29ecd7-21a5-4c03-b9ba-d0cfe9488f8c / 7bd9e20e-74b9-446a-a2ed-a223f82a36e7
We then have the following information in Kodi:
Wyclef Jean
Song: Wyclef Jean feat. Cyndi Lauper aka Luscious Loo Loo - Slumdog Millionaire
Cyndi Lauper aka Luscious Loo Loo
Song: Wyclef Jean feat. Cyndi Lauper aka Luscious Loo Loo - Slumdog Millionaire
We then add one more song,
Artist = Cyndi Lauper
Artists= Cyndi Lauper
Title = Girls Just Want to Have Fun
MusicBrainz Artist Id= 7bd9e20e-74b9-446a-a2ed-a223f82a36e7
The our library would look like this:
Wyclef Jean
Song: Wyclef Jean feat. Cyndi Lauper aka Luscious Loo Loo - Slumdog Millionaire
Cyndi Lauper aka Luscious Loo Loo
Song: Wyclef Jean feat. Cyndi Lauper aka Luscious Loo Loo - Slumdog Millionaire
Song: Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Want to Have Fun
If you enable prefer online information and refresh the artists (or kept it enabled during scanning and enabled fetch additional information), it will look like this:
Wyclef Jean
Song: Wyclef Jean feat. Cyndi Lauper aka Luscious Loo Loo - Slumdog Millionaire
Cyndi Lauper
Song: Wyclef Jean feat. Cyndi Lauper aka Luscious Loo Loo - Slumdog Millionaire
Song: Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Want to Have Fun
I hope it makes sense