new user, some questions

[geedsen]

After happily using mediaportal for a long time, I thought I give XBMC a try.

I have all my music tagged, and covers inside the mp3. So basically I dont want XMBC to touch them. I have a directory for each artist, and their albums are subdirectories of this directory. Now I want a folder.jpg for each artist in their own directory.

Now I see several options:

1) Get Albuminformation on scan
2) Get Artistinformation on scan

What do they do? will 2 do what I want? And will 1 do what I defenitly do not want?

I also see an option 'do not show artist on compilations' , what does that mean. What is required for an album to be seen as a compilation?

The last question for now:

I am using the MCE remote. But I have not figured out what the 'menu' key is (ESC on the keyboard). I pressed every button but so far, I never get 'back' a menu level.

Thanks

[james141]

I cant help with the first one, but I would look at installing a free app called eventghost, it allows you to map all the remote keys to xbmc exactly how you want them and its easy to use :) (just make sure you get the latest beta build as it has an xbmc plug in)

[knop3se]

After happily using mediaportal for a long time, I thought I give XBMC a try.

I have all my music tagged, and covers inside the mp3. So basically I dont want XBMC to touch them. I have a directory for each artist, and their albums are subdirectories of this directory. Now I want a folder.jpg for each artist in their own directory.

Now I see several options:

1) Get Albuminformation on scan
2) Get Artistinformation on scan

What do they do? will 2 do what I want? And will 1 do what I defenitly do not want?

I also see an option 'do not show artist on compilations' , what does that mean. What is required for an album to be seen as a compilation?

The last question for now:

I am using the MCE remote. But I have not figured out what the 'menu' key is (ESC on the keyboard). I pressed every button but so far, I never get 'back' a menu level.

Thanks

Use the BACKSPACE key to get back one level. It doesn't work everywhere but work for tv shows for instance.

[geedsen]

BACKSPACE key on the remote?

[SlaveUnit]

Listen to James141. Your MCE remote will not work out of the box besides the arrows and the ok button. Use eventghost or another method stated in the forums here.