QQ Media Player NUC Buyers Club - Discussion

[HomerJAU]

Update for Round 1 buyers:

Remotes are in PERRYSBURG, not far from Paul’s assembly factory

NVME SSD: Turns out the shipment is in two lots, 1 arrived yesterday, 2nd very close behind.

Paul is testing a Kodi update that has full Matroska music tag support (that’s very good for you, more in my next How To write-up)

Enjoy your weekend. And get excited!

 

[BuhBuhRay]

Question in regards of Garry's "Introduction to Kodi Music Media" topic : On a 2X CDs album, I want to show a different CD discart for both CDs.

I've checked on the Kodi forums, named both discarts as "discart1.jpg" and discart2.jpg, tagged the "%disctitle% tag respectively as "disc1" and "disc2" as mentionned on the Kodi forums, added <arttype>discart1</arttype> and <arttype>discart2</arttype> in the "advancedsettings.xml" file, etc. Does not work. Tried on my current setup: CoreElec 20.5 on a Odroid N2, on which I've implemented Garry's QQ mod.

I'm currently redoing all my tags in preparation of my "round 2" NUC, so would like to implement that different cd arts on my multidiscs. Any suggestions on what I'm missing ?

BTW I'm using MP3Tag as my tagger. Tried TagScanner but I find it way too complicated.

Thanks

 

[LuvMyQuad]

Question in regards of Garry's "Introduction to Kodi Music Media" topic : On a 2X CDs album, I want to show a different CD discart for both CDs.

I've checked on the Kodi forums, named both discarts as "discart1.jpg" and discart2.jpg, tagged the "%disctitle% tag respectively as "disc1" and "disc2" as mentionned on the Kodi forums, added <arttype>discart1</arttype> and <arttype>discart2</arttype> in the "advancedsettings.xml" file, etc. Does not work. Tried on my current setup: CoreElec 20.5 on a Odroid N2, on which I've implemented Garry's QQ mod.

I'm currently redoing all my tags in preparation of my "round 2" NUC, so would like to implement that different cd arts on my multidiscs. Any suggestions on what I'm missing ?

BTW I'm using MP3Tag as my tagger. Tried TagScanner but I find it way too complicated.

Thanks

Im sure Garry will give you a definative answer. my question is, are both cd rips in the same directory? Are both discarts in the same directory?

 

[LuvMyQuad]

Update for Round 1 buyers:

Remotes are in PERRYSBURG, not far from Paul’s assembly factory

Every so often Mrs Luv walks into the room and says "When does your new Radio Shack open?"

 

[BuhBuhRay]

Im sure Garry will give you a definative answer. my question is, are both cd rips in the same directory? Are both discarts in the same directory?

Yes they are, and disc number tags are set on all flac files. Saw someone suggested elsewhere to put every disc files in separate subdirectories. Could this be the way to do it ? Could not get any definitive answer when I searched for that.

In Garry's "Introduction to Kodi Music Media" post, on part 1, he wrote about the DiscSubTitle tag. My understanding is that this tag is for different versions of one album, and not to tag the disc number of an album.

In MP3Tag, there is a %disctitle% tag extented tag that is available, but didn't find the DiscSubTitle tag. Guess these aren't the same.

 

[HomerJAU]

On a 2X CDs album, I want to show a different CD discart for both CDs.

Kodi’s UI will combine two or more folders (albums) into one in the UI but show them as two or more ‘discs’ by:
Tagging each of your CDs with same ‘Album’ tag (or MusicbrainzIDs) AND using a different ‘DiscSubtitle’ tag value

Since you now have each CD in its own folder, you can have a ‘discart.png’ in each folder, one for CD1 another for CD2.

In the Kodi UI when looking at an Album view you see only 1 listing for the two folders (remember from my intro: Kodi does not use the folder name or folders to group tracks into albums, it uses Tags). When you enter the album, normally you view a song/track view/list, but because you used the ‘DiscSubTitle’ tag, you see a ‘disc’ view instead.

The Disc view shows 1 listing for each unique DiscSubtitle tag you use for the same Album tag (or MusicBrainz AlbumID).

The DiscSubtitle value can be anything:
Simply: Disc 1 and Disc 2

Or values that describe the disc content:
Studio Mix and Live Mix

Or can even be used to show a single BDA disc with multiple mixes as multiple ‘discs’:
Example: DiscSubtitle values for 1 Steven Wilson BDA:
Stereo (original mix)
Stereo (SW mix)
5.1 mix
Atmos mix
Instrumental (Atmos)
Etc

Use your imagination, you can use anything!

 

[humprof]

@humprof Multiple genres are supported. The default separator is ‘ / ‘

Example:
Genre Tag: Rock / Space Rock

Creates two genre references for the file in the library:
Rock
Space Rock

Great--thanks. In my test runs, that separator seems to be working as planned!

Users can also specify multiple artists with any of these (and user definable/changeable) delimiters:
<artistseparators>
<separator>;</separator>
<separator>:</separator>
<separator>|</separator>
<separator> feat. </separator>
<separator> ft. </separator>
</artistseparators>

I need to confirm but I think this NUC’s Kodi also defines ‘ with ‘
Artist Tag: Elton John with Kikki Dee
Creates two Artist references in the library:
Elton John
Kikki Dee

Here, by contrast, things initially went a bit awry. (And once again I'm gonna be the kid in the class who makes all the other students' eyes roll whenever he opens his mouth.)

I clearly need to go back to your primer, and to the Kodi Wiki, and give the sections on NFO Files some more study. Because it seems--and correct me if I'm wrong--that both here and in your answer to @BuhBuhRay this morning, you're talking about adding or defining tags via XML markup, whereas so far I've only been working with Mp3tag's UI. And when I tried using the above separators in the "Artist" or "AlbumArtist" fields in Mp3tag, I wound up in Kodi with, e.g., "Minnesota Orchestra|Osmo Vänskä" as an artist (rather than "Minnesota Orchestra" and "Osmo Vänskä")--no doubt because I didn't have "|" defined anywhere as an artistseparator. (Turns out Mp3tag uses "\\" as its default artistseparator.)

Live & learn. But that leads to (more eye-rolling) another question, which I'll pose in a separate post.

For now, though--and this relates more to your answer to BuhBuhRay: I've figured out how to add, from a drop-down list of prompts in the relevant Mp3tag "Options" setting, extended fields like "Conductor" or "InvolvedPeople" to the Tag Panel and File List portions of the main window of Mp3tag. Presumably there's a way to create & add custom user-defined fields as well. And/or, as I said: I can just go back to the books and get my head straight on NFO Files.

 

[HomerJAU]

clearly need to go back to your primer, and to the Kodi Wiki, and give the sections on NFO Files some more study. Because it seems--and correct me if I'm wrong--that both here and in your answer to @BuhBuhRay this morning, you're talking about adding or defining tags via XML markup

No. DiscSubtitle is a standard tag

For now, though--and this relates more to your answer to BuhBuhRay: I've figured out how to add, from a drop-down list of prompts in the relevant Mp3tag "Options" setting, extended fields like "Conductor" or "InvolvedPeople" to the Tag Panel and File List portions of the main window of Mp3tag. Presumably there's a way to create & add custom user-defined fields as well. And/or, as I said: I can just go back to the books and get my head straight on NFO Files.

No need to do that manually if you add MusicBrainz tags. MP3Tag does that, Tagscanner does it, MMH does it.

When Kodi finds those MusicBrainz tags during its Scan of your media (loading tags into the library database) Koi looks up conductor, instruments, people involved by the MBZ tags. They pinpoint the exact data for the Album you chose when adding the MBZ tags.

 

[humprof]

No. DiscSubtitle is a standard tag



No need to do that manually if you add MusicBrainz tags. MP3Tag does that, Tagscanner does it, MMH does it.

When Kodi finds those MusicBrainz tags during its Scan of your media (loading tags into the library database) Koi looks up conductor, instruments, people involved by the MBZ tags. They pinpoint the exact data for the Album you chose when adding the MBZ tags.

Ah--okay, thanks. I get how to import tags from MusicBrainz, but I guess what I need to learn is how to import MusicBrainz tags without altering any existing tags that I'm already happy with.

So far, for my small test run, I've been building my library from FLACs that I've purchased at places like Bandcamp and eClassical.com. I'll occasionally do a manual tweak of one or two tags (like "Genre"--or "Artist," if the performers vary from track to track and I want to note that), but in most instances, I've been satisfied with what's already there, and I haven't wanted MusicBrainz to overwrite it. I guess it's just a matter of selecting which data to import from MusicBrainz. I'll give it some more study.

 

[HomerJAU]

It may well get to an iterative trial and error scenario once the NUC is with you. The go for broke on the rest of your collection.

 

[PK]

(And once again I'm gonna be the kid in the class who makes all the other students' eyes roll whenever he opens his mouth.)

Well if it makes you feel any better I'm late to class and just starting my homework today.
Thanks for asking questions as everyone benefits. I'll be going through this thread and trying to catch up with you guys.

 

[PK]

So I'm drowning in a sea of notes and files on this hobby...I gotta get this pile organized before starting this class. Hopefully I catch up before getting sent to the principal's office!

 

[Old Quad Guy]

Perhaps we might come up with a PDF manual with what’s already been written. Everyone’s needs might be a little different, but everything should be more obvious and a lot simpler once one gets their devices and plays with it a little bit.

Following the good advice to start simple,
I’ll probably start off with one each of a different format between various music and video. It’ll also probably help one if you can think ahead of time, how you want your media organized, and how you might want to interact with it. The software sounds very flexible to one’s needs.

 

[J. PUPSTER]

So I'm drowning in a sea of notes and files on this hobby...I gotta get this pile organized before starting this class. Hopefully I catch up before getting sent to the principal's office!

more frappuccinos perhaps!

 

[LuvMyQuad]

I installed kodi on a firestick for my bedroom stereo system. I was never all that happy with it. For instance i couldant do this. Play 24/192 stereo tracks in full resolution. The firestick had dropouts and constant buffers.

No problem for these NUCs. 24/192 Chicago Quadio (2.0). Been doing it for hours now. It hasnt skipped a beat, and the NUC is barely warm. So all you high res junkies can rejoice. And notice the FLAC designation symbol. Thats a @HomerJAU mod special there.

 

[HomerJAU]

So I'm drowning in a sea of notes and files on this hobby

You are drowning? You should see my office desk right now: Two large screens 3 x development NUCs, a maize of USB thumb drives, not mention several A4 (Letter) notebooks of all my code design for last few years!

 

[HomerJAU]

All you taggers out there.

I just uploaded MMH 9 Beta 4. This version 'Chapter Editor' tool now fully supports tagging MKA files compatible with Kodi coming on your new NUCs. No more CUE files needed for MKA albums!!

Next MMH 9 Beta (5) will support MKA/MKV tagging from the 'Tag & Rename' tool. I will release that asap.

https://www.quadraphonicquad.com/fo...audio-music-videos.22693/page-137#post-837622