What API command to populate artist art?

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Hi - for the above, how do I initiate the generic scraper process, when I go into the artists tab, very few have art?

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If I’m remembering correctly, I think this is something where it mostly works correctly if someone has added identifying tags with Musicbrainz Picard. Kodi’s wiki should cover this topic. Have you looked there?

You can also do this manually by setting an “artist information folder” in Kodi’s settings which allows you to export data you do have, as well as add and/or modify manually for individual artists.

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Thanks - decided it was just as easy, rather than using the chorus / lab i/face on the PC, to go into Kodi & do a generic artist scan. This populated most of them. I may well look at your comment re exporting to dig deeper into why some are missing.

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Even with a really well tagged music library there can still be missing artist info. I had actually gone through the whole musicbrainz picard thing but there was still info missing in my (somewhat eclectic) library for a small percentage of the artists.

My strategy was to first disable showing all artists in Kodi’s settings to reduce the number of artists showing in the music artist library. The thought being that I don’t want to see every artist that shows up in a compilation album because it just becomes noise that I have to scroll past browsing the artists I liked enough to collect whole albums for. Next tweaked my music tags a bit to set sort album artists tags such that, for example, I would see Nick Cave or Neil Young as single entries regardless of if the album artist was listed with The Bad Seeds or Crazy Horse. Unfortunately you have to refresh these albums in Kodi after making tag changes for it to be reflected. Finally, because the missing artwork bugs the hell out of me, exported to an artist information folder then manually added artwork that was missing following the same format that it exported in. It is literally just a subfolder matching the artist name that contains folder.ext and/or fanart.ext for the artwork. You can also add a nfo file for Kodi to use in the information popup, but I never bothered with adding that.

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