This article is Part 7 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 Artist Artwork Processing
In Phase 6, album artist artwork was cleaned up and multi-disc album artwork was normalized. Phase 7 validates and scrapes album NFO files. Note at times Phase 8 feeds back into Phase 7.
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 8: Scrape Album Metadata