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This is great.
But I think it should be part of the next release (after dharma) and not an add-on.
The "old" picture option is outdated
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New version 0.2 is now sent to the team for update !
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solexalex, many thanks for your efforts here. I tried to tag some photographs using 'microsoft pro photo tools' to see if I could select my photographs by keywords. I can't seem to get your addin to detect any keywords or location, so no photographs appear under the keyword option.
Is there a bug or am doing something wrong? I scan the folders every time I use the addin.
If this eventually works I think it will be a great addition to XBMC.
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Hi and thank you for your feedback.
For the 'sort by keyword' display, only exif keywords field are used. If you use your software to fill this field, then it should be ok.
None of the other fields are used (and it may be a way of developpement for later)
Another thing is that i know a bug which list keywords but sort not any picture for this keyword. The bug appear when keyword contain special non utf8 characters as i handle encodings very badly. It is one of my todo's for some next release
You may send me a couple of your pics to see whats wrong and maybe your database (mypictures.db) and xbmc.log if it stills bugging.
Are you using v0.2 mypicturesdatabase addon ?
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solexalex, I'm using V0.2 on windows XP. I'm no expert on this but I think windows Xp is adding the keywords in UCS2 format, whilst I suspect your mysql database is expecting the keywords to be in UTF8 format.
'microsoft pro photo tools' recognises the keywords as the text that I type in. I downloaded 'Exif Pilot' and it recognises the windows keywords as a series of numbers in UCS2 format -
43 0 68 0 61 0 72 0 6C 0 69 0 65 0 0 0 - Charlie
Is it possible for your addon to read UCS2 keywords or to convert to UTF8 before querying the database. Alternatively, do you know of a way of adding keywords in UTF8 format whilst using windows XP.
Where is the mypictures database stored?
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The better thing is to send me one of your pics. It is very helpful for me to test many different pictures from many different users.
I use win7 but keywords are properly recognized. You may have a look and try picasa. Or even XBMC can read exif, does xbmc read your keywords ?
The mypicture database is stored with all xbmc's databases
XBMC\userdata\Database
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solexalex, just sent you an email with one of my photogtaphs
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2010-09-25, 01:32
(This post was last modified: 2010-09-25, 01:33 by solexalex.)
I got it
My picasa doesn't recognize any keywords neither
XBMC neither
Win7 does recognize "Motor Museum" keyword
Maybe your software add some XMP keywords and XMP is not handled (unfortunately)
Can you send me your xbmc.log just after a scan and nothing else please ?
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OK keep in touch via email for help and debugging.
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Thanks for releasing a new beta version, and thanks again for making this nice add-on. Sure this has to be base functionality of XBMC!
Request1 : Please make an enhancement in de Configuration panel, so that more than 1 location can be scanned. Eg. 5 folders can be entered.
Request 2: is it possible to make selections to the “category” and “supplemental catogry” like the keywords selection ?
I hope this can be done in the next realease