Music Media Helper (Tools for Multichannel Audio & Music Videos)

[himey]

Is Kodi media organization software? If so, that's what I use.

It will probably be worth effort to organize your folder structure to exactly what Kodi recommends.

 

[HomerJAU]

I'm ready to change to this format, but I'm wondering what advantages it offers over my current Artist/Album format. I remember following this thread, and I'm curious when and why you decided to change: https://www.quadraphonicquad.com/fo...i-file-and-folder-organisation-storage.22380/

Originally Kodi used the Artist\Album hierarchy but a developer wanted to create features needing multiple music Sources and the way Kodi found Artist data could not be used since an Artist could have folders in multiple Sources. Kodi expected one per Artist.

Kodi implemented the new ‘Artist Information’ folder so all artist data (fanart, biography, discography etc) could be stored there. No media though. So Kodi needs one Artist Information folder but now supports multiple music Sources.

So now users no longer need to keep their albums under an Artist folder. But for users an album name alone is not ‘readable’ so ‘Artist - Album’ (e.g. ‘Pink Floyd - Animals’) is recommended when using an ‘Artist Information’ folder.

I used multiple Sources so I can create Kodi menu nodes (defining music database filtered albums), so instead of navigating from over 2000 albums I can now start from albums that are ‘Atmos’, ‘Quad’, ‘Surround’, ‘Upmixes’, ‘Stereo’, ‘Concerts’ buy creating those 6 Sources with 6 menu nodes. Those Sources can also be over multiple drives.

For me that has been good as I often listen to just Atmos or Quad or Concert music during a listening session.

But it’s up to each user to decide what they prefer. You don’t have to do it this way, you can use the original recommendation.

 

[paligap]

Originally Kodi used the Artist\Album hierarchy but a developer wanted to create features needing multiple music Sources and the way Kodi found Artist data could not be used since an Artist could have folders in multiple Sources. Kodi expected one per Artist.

Kodi implemented the new ‘Artist Information’ folder so all artist data (fanart, biography, discography etc) could be stored there. No media though. So Kodi needs one Artist Information folder but now supports multiple music Sources.

So now users no longer need to keep their albums under an Artist folder. But for users an album name alone is not ‘readable’ so ‘Artist - Album’ (e.g. ‘Pink Floyd - Animals’) is recommended when using an ‘Artist Information’ folder.

I used multiple Sources so I can create Kodi menu nodes (defining music database filtered albums), so instead of navigating from over 2000 albums I can now start from albums that are ‘Atmos’, ‘Quad’, ‘Surround’, ‘Upmixes’, ‘Stereo’, ‘Concerts’ buy creating those 6 Sources with 6 menu nodes. Those Sources can also be over multiple drives.

For me that has been good as I often listen to just Atmos or Quad or Concert music during a listening session.

But it’s up to each user to decide what they prefer. You don’t have to do it this way, you can use the original recommendation.

Interesting. Two of my Video folders, Concerts and Videos, have the Artist - Concert (or Album) format. Movies just have the movie titles. Where does one get the info for the Artist Information folder? In my current Artist/Album format, I assume some of the info for both artist and album is in the tagging, but it's not separate in a folder.

Are the Artist Information and Source(s) folders at the same level?

 

[HomerJAU]

MMH 8.0.6 beta 1 released:

Version 8.0.7 beta 1 (November 5 2024)
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Fixes:
DR measurement failed for some flac files due to issue with ffmpeg - fixed @M-K

Changes:
Updated 3rd party UI controls to latest 24.1.7*
Updated Ffmpeg to 7.1.0

Direct download link to 8.0.7 beta 1 installer:
https://reva.blob.core.windows.net/mmh8/beta/MMHInstaller.msi

* this is the last update for MMH's 3rd party UI controls as the annual subscription cost is no longer affordable. MMH will now remain at .NET 8 and using version 24.1 3rd Party UI controls.

 

[HomerJAU]

Audio Batch processor. But Channel Volume does not work either, I just found out. See below. DR0 is wrong.

View attachment 110746

Now fixed:

I could not replicate your error in any of my tests but could with your test files that were uploaded. ffmpeg 6 and 7 gives errors on that problem flac file. I have now included an old ffmpeg 4 file just to use for DR calcs. That works fine with your files.

Some sort of minor file corruption I think. Newer versions of ffmpeg report 'No Dynamic Range Data found', probably a bug in newer ffmpeg DR calcs.

THX
Garry

 

[HomerJAU]

I assume some of the info for both artist and album is in the tagging, but it's not separate in a folder.

Are the Artist Information and Source(s) folders at the same level?

The only Artist info in tags is Artist Name.

The Artist Information folder can be anywhere but typically is root folder and not under any music source folder. If you don’t specifically set an Artist Information folder then Kodi presumes you are using its original Artist\Album folder hierarchy with only one music Source folder (i.e the Artist information is in the Artist folder and all Artist albums are there also).