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I discovered that there is no general assignment of a scraper even though you can set one in the options dialog - if I open the artist individually there is no preallocated scraper shown, I have to manually choose one from the list ..
This would explain why the full automatic scrapping of all artist doesn't work .. Am I the only one that has deleted the media library when updating to Frodo and tried to scrap everything form scratch ? Does it work for you ?
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Probably there is a bug about this, what is only popping up in case of wrong structure of your music collection.
We couldn't identify the issue as none of us can reproduce it (we all have sane structure :p).
I believe if you can identify the bugger, then someone from the team will pick it up (if it is really a bug what needs to be addressed).
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Hi Olympia,
ah, okay, didn't know that there has to be a special structure; I thought the ID Tags are simply read ?
My Music collection is structered this way (directory structure): Music/Interprets/ , each Interprets directory contains files named "artist - album - title".mp3. All mp3 have right ID3 Tag information about interprets and albums too .. Albums are scrapped without problems ..
What should I change ? .. I didn't change the structure of my music collection for years and it was scrapped in Eden without problems - did there anything change in Frodo ?
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I am having this same issue. All my files are ID3 tagged and I am not aware of a specific structure that is needed for music files as the last 4 years of XBMC has scraped files just fine. If I try now on newly added albums and artists using the universal scraper I get the progress just fly through or ask for the input over and over and never actually finding anything.
My structure is:
\\Nas\mp3\albums\artist\album\01 - artist - song.mp3
Surely there is nothing wrong with that.
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I didn't say a specific structure is required. I said there is probably a bug what we cannot identify.
In case any of you can provide a step by step guide how to reproduce this on a fresh install (and odds are high we will need the files to reproduce as well), then it will be picked up.
As said, we cannot reproduce on our end.
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Hehh, scraping on a fresh Frodo works perfectly for me...
So please, instead of any more whining on this, give us the steps to reproduce on a _FRESH_ Frodo Install.
This means:
- steps to introduce
- debug log
- file structure - Best would be to copy 2-3 artists each with 1 album to a test folder and use this
- files might me needed
So please guys, put some work into this.
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2013-03-30, 16:53
(This post was last modified: 2013-03-30, 16:59 by LastCoder.)
He Olympia,
see my first post - that's all that can be found in the debug.log.
See my fourth post and phsyraxions post - that are our file structures - but you didn't answer, if it really depends on the file structure (why should it ?) or if ID tags are read, and you didn't care about the fact that scrapping worked flawlessly in Eden with the given files.
And I did a fresh Frodo install, i.e. deleting all .xbmc data, so all of your needs are fullfilled ..
We don't whine, we simply tell a problem, that affects more than one user .. just quoting you: "please guy, put some work into this"
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I have done from complete default and it appears that when I use a MYSQL database, the scraper is not being applied to all the Artists or Albums. Using the default skin I can set the Universal Scraper for the main ARTIST category but when I then view an artist and choose "Change Scraper" there is no scraper set. If I manually set it I can then scrape the artist just fine.
If I use a small test to a LOCAL database then it seems to work fine too.
Not sure what that means but will have to look further.