This article is Part 9 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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Scrape Album Metadata
In Phase 8, missing album metadata was scraped. Phase 9 identifies album artists that have not been scraped before, evaluates them, and scrapes their metadata.
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 10: Scrape Song Artists