Issue description:
I have set a folder as an artist Info folder inside of the manage media providers setting, yet no information about the artist or photos are shown on the artist page. I made sure to follow the same NFO XML structure as shown on the Wiki page of artist information folder, though I’m not sure if the location of the artist info folder matters if I can manually set it in the settings of the media provider.
Logs:
Upload description: JustRol
Additional information:
Reproduction steps:
I went to the Manage media providers setting, pressed ‘edit’ to my local device provider, and selected a folder that contained names of artists and an NFO file and some images for the cover art and fan art. Only one artist contains all of what was mentioned above since I am just starting to try out using the ArtistInfo folder feature.
Media provider:
Local device
Screenshots:
There is no logs uploaded …
I need proper logs during a sync, and proper details about your folder structure and the nfo content, …
I apologize. I tried uploading the log again with the same name as this forum. How I have my folders organized is like this:
Music/
├── ArtistInfo/
│ └── ArtistName1/
│ ├── artist.nfo
│ ├── fanart.jpg
│ └── thumb.jpg
│
└── (Every other album folder containing music files)
I’ve also uploaded the nfo file with the description containing this forum’s title.
There’s still no logs uploaded. It should tell success or error.
In all cases the nfo is invalid the artist tag is not closed.
Use XML validation tools to ensure XMl are valid.
Thank you for clarifying what I should do about the nfo file. The debug log should now be uploaded this time with mentioning the forum’s title. I was initially using the app to upload the file from there, but I’m guessing that didn’t work the past two time i tried.
I found a solution to my problem. I believe it had to do with including the musicBrainzArtistID line inside of the file. After removing that line and forcing a sync I was able to see the written biography and genre tags on the artist page.
This is what I have written in the nfo file with information coming from musicbrainz:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
<artist>
<name>Jon Bellion</name>
<type>Person</type>
<genre>Hip Hop</genre>
<genre>Pop</genre>
<biography>Jonathan David Bellion is an American singer, songwriter, rapper and record producer. He was born and raised in Lake Grove, New York on Long Island. He is best known for his 2016 single "All Time Low," which peaked at number 16 on the Billboard Hot 100.</biography>
</artist>
As for the images, I had also included two images files that are used for the fanart and artist photo inside of the folder. What I did to get them to show properly was by changing the local thumbnail and removing the current images that were being used.
I hope someone else will find this helpful in the future!
Yes the ID need to match what you have in your tags and manually set images have priority.
