No, it's not a Kodi thing, as a matter of fact almost all media center solutions I know use these. There are also some music players that make use of them. The NFO files store additional meta data that gets displayed on the screen (mostly tv) while you are playing music or is shown on the screen while browsing your album/artist/song library (as you said, a "databased system").
Also, the Music & Artist Info plugin for LMS does the same--except it scrapes the info (as I understand it) in real-time and does not store it locally; it only saves artwork to a local folder. Software that uses NFO files usually scans for existing files and uses that info first before it scrapes online databases--which, as we all know, are usually literally unusable for everything besides popular music. I have no intention of migrating from LMS, not at all. But I am trying to build a video and music collection that stores most info locally in formats that are platform agnostic. Tagged FLACs and mp3s are, after all, not the answer to everything. And, looking up bios etc. on websites is exactly what I personally want to avoid ... - *ASRock Ion 330* (home office) w/ Xubuntu 14.04 + XBMC "Gotham" + LMS 7.9, FLAC > Local Player > Behringer MS 40 - *Boom* (master bedroom), *Radio* (master bathroom), *Archos 35 Home Connect* + SqueezePlayer (guest bathroom) - *Reson PR 80s* as UPnP client (living room) > Parasound DAC 1500 > vintage Wega Modul 42V amp (w/ 42E equalizer, 42T tape deck, and Thorens TD 160 Mk II turntable) > Quadral Vulkan Mk II - *RPi + RaspBMC* (living room) > Samsung UE60H6270 w/ HW-H450 soundbar - *Duet* + *Radio* in storage ------------------------------------------------------------------------ wortgefecht's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=63295 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102454 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
