This article is Part 5 of a 10-part series exploring the Kodi multi-media player's music file scanning and metadata scraping processes via logic flow diagrams.
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Album Artwork Processing
In Phase 4, default artwork for each album was established. Phase 5 completes the album sorting process, determines if local or remote album artwork should be applied, and cleans up multi-disc album art. It handles the following tasks:
- Resolve duplicate album entries
- Evaluate local artwork
- Determine whether to use local or remote album art
- Scrape album art as needed
- Normalize multi-disc album artwork
The bracketed numbers just below the diagram title are line numbers in Kodi's music scanning code (MusicInfoScanner.cpp) found at https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/blob/Leia/xbmc/music/infoscanner/MusicInfoScanner.cpp
Next up is Phase 6: Album Artist Artwork