[olympia]

Guys, just use an nfo file with the theaudiodb.com link for all those which are problematic. Yes, this is a workaround, but it works and let you forget the issue.

[DarkHelmet]

I could finally fix my hardware issues. Here's a log. I'm trying to manually scrape these files, which exist in theaudiodb

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Lock All The Doors.mp4
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - You Know We Can't Go Back.mp4
Phoenix - 1901.mp4

http://pastebin.com/q9zLGh3i

And one other thing I noticed: Until some point when I manually scraped a music video with a track that is part of multiple albums (e.g. regular album, live, best of) I was presented a list of these albums containing that track and then I could pick the right album. That option is not available anymore. Was that intended or is it a bug?

[DarkHelmet]

Anyone?

[zag]

Code:

http://www.theaudiodb.com/api/v1/json/58424d43204d6564696120/searchtrack.php?s=Noel%20Gallagher\'s%20High%20Flying%20Birds&t=Lock%20All%20The%20Doors

This is the URL that isn't working. I'll have a look.

EDIT: OK this works

Code:

http://www.theaudiodb.com/api/v1/json/58424d43204d6564696120/searchtrack.php?s=Noel%20Gallagher%27s%20High%20Flying%20Birds&t=Lock%20All%20The%20Doors

Looks like there is an extra "amp;" after the song artist, i'd check the song tag to see if there is an extra space or something in the artist name.

[DarkHelmet]

Thanks for looking into it. I copied and pasted both the artist and the track name directly from theaudiodb to my filename in order to avoid these issues. Don't really know what else I can do.

This is the exact name of the file copied and pasted directly from the files name.

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Lock All The Doors.mp4

Maybe you could try with a dummy file if that scrapes correctly for you.

Olympia, I take it you're the author of the scraper. Why was the option to choose between different albums removed? That was a pretty useful option.

[olympia]

I have no idea, the scraper did not change in this respect for sure. Unless there were related API changes (which I don't think there was), the scraper should return the results with the API provides.

[DarkHelmet]

Since this scraper creates millions of hits a night... I have slightly amended the API search to only return 1 record now.

Basically it should work as before, but the track name must be accurate and it will not return multiple results.

Stupid me. It was this change to the API most probably.

[zaz102]

Is it possible to get some kind of fanart to display for Music Video album and/or title nodes without downloading artwork and generating nfo files? Right now, I only get fanart for the artist node.

I know my Music Videos are scraping correctly as I am getting all info associated with the song.

I checked the website and do not see a fanart option for album or song. Perhaps, this is why I'm not seeing fanart.

[jamiec21]

Since this scraper creates millions of hits a night... I have slightly amended the API search to only return 1 record now.

Basically it should work as before, but the track name must be accurate and it will not return multiple results.

Just a pointer, this is proving a problem when the same track is included on more than one album. For example, the Oasis track 'The Importance of Being Idle' is showing as being from the 2006 compilation 'Stop the Clocks' instead of the original 2005 album 'Don't Believe the Truth'. I can manually override this with an .nfo file, but it might be food for thought.

[stefano76]

Hello, i'm a newbie with this scraper. I've add a folder with only music video files in different format type (avi, mpg, mp4 and so on)
I've named the file like asked "artist - song.ext" but the first thing is that i prefer to put the surname as first for alphabetical order, so for example
Blunt James - Wiseman.avi and in this case can't fine the information. Also i've noted that if they find correctly the video on the list will be removed the artist so next time i see on the list only "Wiseman" and this is very annoying cause i would like to have many videos of the same artist close, and also with the remoter controller when i'm going on the music video i can't do a search for the artist cause it was removed from the name by the scraper. There's a way to preserve the filename on the filesystem with the scraper to have just only the fanart? Really thanks for your help.

[stefano76]

Hello, about my recent request of support, i've tried to modify a string in the tabd.xml file.
the original was
<expression fixchars="1" noclean="1">strTrack&quot;:&quot;([^&quot;]*)&quot;</expression>
now
<expression fixchars="1" noclean="1">artist&gt;strTrack&quot;:&quot;([^&quot;]*)&quot;</expression>
and on the kodi software i see as requested but from the remoter i can't see any text file.
Someone can help me? Really thanks.

[stefano76]

Can someone help me? Thanks.

[daske9r3]

For me this plugin has recently stopped working.
It will give the "Unable to connect to server" errormessage both when trying to refresh info for previously scrubbed music videos, and also when scrubbing new music videos.

Debug log for refreshing info:

Code:

23:09:52 T:1969389568   DEBUG: ------ Window Init (DialogProgress.xml) ------
23:09:52 T:1570763840  NOTICE: Thread VideoInfoDownloader start, auto delete: false
23:09:52 T:1570763840   DEBUG: FindMovie: Searching for 'Miley Cyrus - Wrecking Ball' using TheAudioDb.com for Music Videos scraper (path: '/storage/.kodi/addons/metadata.musicvideos.theaudiodb.com', content: 'musicvideos', version: '1.2.7')
23:09:52 T:1570763840   DEBUG: scraper: CreateSearchUrl returned <url>http://www.theaudiodb.com/api/v1/json/58424d43204d6564696120/searchtrack.php?s=Miley%20Cyrus&amp;t=Wrecking%20Ball</url>
23:09:52 T:1570763840   DEBUG: CurlFile::Open(0x46611f0) http://www.theaudiodb.com/api/v1/json/58424d43204d6564696120/searchtrack.php?s=Miley%20Cyrus&t=Wrecking%20Ball
23:09:52 T:1570763840    INFO: easy_aquire - Created session to http://www.theaudiodb.com
23:09:53 T:1570763840   ERROR: CCurlFile::FillBuffer - Failed: HTTP returned error 404
23:09:53 T:1570763840  NOTICE: CCurlFile::FillBuffer - Reconnect, (re)try 1
23:09:53 T:1570763840   ERROR: CCurlFile::FillBuffer - Failed: HTTP returned error 404
23:09:53 T:1570763840   ERROR: CCurlFile::CReadState::Connect, didn't get any data from stream.
23:09:53 T:1570763840   ERROR: Run: Unable to parse web site
23:09:53 T:1570763840   ERROR: Process: Error looking up item Miley Cyrus - Wrecking Ball [Music Video] 1080p [Sbyky].mp4
23:09:53 T:1570763840   DEBUG: Thread VideoInfoDownloader 1570763840 terminating
23:09:53 T:1969389568   DEBUG: ------ Window Init (DialogOK.xml) ------

Debug log for new file:

Code:

23:23:53 T:1969389568   DEBUG: ------ Window Init (DialogProgress.xml) ------
23:23:53 T:1867510848   DEBUG: PushCecKeypress - received key  b duration 229
23:23:53 T:1607464000  NOTICE: Thread VideoInfoDownloader start, auto delete: false
23:23:53 T:1607464000   DEBUG: FindMovie: Searching for 'The Black Eyed Peas - Shut Up' using TheAudioDb.com for Music Videos scraper (path: '/storage/.kodi/addons/metadata.musicvideos.theaudiodb.com', content: 'musicvideos', version: '1.2.7')
23:23:53 T:1607464000   DEBUG: scraper: CreateSearchUrl returned <url>http://www.theaudiodb.com/api/v1/json/58424d43204d6564696120/searchtrack.php?s=The%20Black%20Eyed%20Peas&amp;t=Shut%20Up</url>
23:23:53 T:1607464000   DEBUG: CurlFile::Open(0x48dea18) http://www.theaudiodb.com/api/v1/json/58424d43204d6564696120/searchtrack.php?s=The%20Black%20Eyed%20Peas&t=Shut%20Up
23:23:53 T:1607464000   ERROR: CCurlFile::FillBuffer - Failed: HTTP returned error 404
23:23:53 T:1607464000  NOTICE: CCurlFile::FillBuffer - Reconnect, (re)try 1
23:23:54 T:1607464000   ERROR: CCurlFile::FillBuffer - Failed: HTTP returned error 404
23:23:54 T:1607464000   ERROR: CCurlFile::CReadState::Connect, didn't get any data from stream.
23:23:54 T:1607464000   ERROR: Run: Unable to parse web site
23:23:54 T:1607464000   ERROR: Process: Error looking up item The Black Eyed Peas - Shut Up.mp4
23:23:54 T:1607464000   DEBUG: Thread VideoInfoDownloader 1607464000 terminating
23:23:54 T:1969389568   DEBUG: ------ Window Init (DialogOK.xml) ------

TheAudioDB.com site seems to be up so I don't think that's the problem.

[zag]

theaudiodb Api is disabled for a few days, the amount of requests is getting ridiculous (4 million this month alone) and I'm reaching the bandwidth limit of theaudiodb hosting.

I'll take a look on Monday about making it more efficient.

[DarkHelmet]

Wow, these figures for music videos alone? Sometimes I thought I was the only one even that uses part of kodi.