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Is there a "How to" page somewhere?
I am running anidb add-on 2.0.0 at the moment, but get banned easily, so I am interested in the request delay feature in the mod.
I have downloaded the scudlee repository zip file, and used the install from zip feature in XBMC and now have a Scudlee's XBMC addon Repository, under get add-ons, that is completly empty.
Where did I go wrong?
XBMC running on win 7, but I also use ubuntu on other machines. So database is on MySQL.
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Re-check the repository as sometimes a newly added repository takes a while to populate.
If it's still empty, try going back to the list of installed repositories and doing a "Force refresh" from the context menu ('c' or right mouse-click).
@borgmanjayce: You won't get episode plots, episode thumbs, or fanart if it's not on thetvdb.com. You should get episode titles though, as they're taken from anidb.
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I know this is not exactly related here but since anidb's forum is a ghost-town: is the anidb client shitting itself for anyone else under osx? I suspect it's Java (latest update) being shit, the file selection window is loaded in the background, then beachballs until I close the anidb tab. Anyone else with the same issue?
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That would depend entirely on the media manager. The only one I knew of that used actual XBMC scrapers only worked with pre-Dharma scrapers which were a lot more limited than the current ones (and would therefore not work with the mod).
Of course, I don't pay much attention to media managers, so whether that's still true or not, I don't know.
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This is interesting. I always use a media manager to pre-fetch metadata and artwork because I have found that (1) they are faster than XBMC (2) they enable you to custom edit tag content, even drop tags (3) they automatically download things such as extrafanart which XBMC's library doesn't use however its skinning engine does.
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All true.
My gripe tends to be that you become locked to the metadata that was available when you ran the media manager on the files in question. To update, you either need to run the media manager again AND refresh inside XBMC, or refresh inside XBMC and ignore the local data (at which point I ask why did I save the local data in the first place).
Leaving it all in the hands of XBMC just seems easier, especially when thetvdb can be slow in adding episode plots and thumbnails for anime titles.
Plus, if need be, you can always use mixed .nfo files to overwrite certain metadata whilst still getting the rest via the scraper (although, admittedly, that doesn't work for episodes).
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2013-10-03, 15:26
(This post was last modified: 2013-10-03, 15:27 by Outlaw Mantis.)
This scraper is great, but in some instances it doesn't scan anime properly or not at all. I think in such instances I will follow the suggestion of tvshow.nfo. However, there have been some problems for me personally. For example, the anime series Outlaw Star and Solty Rei are both 26 episodes in length, but because AniDB is so anal about getting everything perfectly, a couple are regarded as "specials" and aren't picked up by the scraper despite the fact the specials were present in the western episode listing. In fact, they are not added to the anime listing at all. So, does anybody know the most efficient way of having TVDB scan them instead? (Maybe I should try out the tvshow.nfo with the TVDB URL.)
Also, some series don't pick up any of the episodes. Three examples from my experience are Bakuman. (yes, the full stop is present in the name), Gurrenn Lagann and Ranma 1/2. They all appear to have correct scraped names, cover and background art, but the episodes aren't listed. Any ideas? I'm sure the advancedsettings.xml coupled with this advanced mod would pick them up even with the unusual naming conventions of some releases.