[tzoom84]

Hi all, I'm a new XBMC user, just installed a few days ago on my Mythbuntu machine (Ubuntu 10.10).

Setup of XBMC overall was SUPER seamless. I was able to get pictures and videos with corresponding auto-fetched fanart, plots, etc, up and running in just minutes.

However, my music library is the only thing giving me much trouble. No matter what I do, I can't see to get xbmc to auto-fetch album data or cover art for my albums.

• It doesn't display any information except filename.
  
• When I press "Scan Item to Library", some scanning occurs but nothing visually changes.
  
• When I select an album and press "Album Information", no information is shown.
  
• On the Album page, if I click "Refresh", it goes in a loop of "Enter the Album Name" prompt and "Enter the Artist Name" prompts.
  

These songs have been ID3 tagged manually, along with auto-tagged using MusicBrains Picard, and tagged within Itunes separately. Any ideas?

[tzoom84]

::bump::

Curious if anyone has any tips on getting the music data to come in right. I tried the wiki and troubleshooting to no luck.
Thanks!

[olympia]

Do you have "Download additional information on updates" enabled in music library settings?

[tzoom84]

Do you have "Download additional information on updates" enabled in music library settings?

yep. Service set at allmusic. And update libraries on startup set

[olympia]

Then debug log please...about an unsuccesful "scan item to library".

[tzoom84]

Ok I'll take a look and report back

[tzoom84]

Ok I did a 'tail -f xbmc.log' while trying to re-scan, get album info refresh, and get song info.

The only thing that appeared in the log was:

Code:

15:26:48 T:3018845040 M:506507264  NOTICE: My Music: Scanning for music info using worker thread, operation took 00:00

No errors. Just that.

Some other notes:

- Tried cleaning library, no luck
- Tried reducing to just one directly as a source
- Tried changing scrapers to Allmusic, Freebase, etc

Note: It DOES seem to be grabbing the ID3 tags, as when I am in library mode for music, it does sort by Artist, Album, and Genre. Just no album artist or song info (and no auto-downloaded cover art )

[olympia]

I need a full debug log pasted to pastebin site.
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=34655

[tzoom84]

My mistake. First time posting an xbmc debug log.

I started with a fresh log and here is the pastebin:
DEBUG LOG

My actions:
1. Start xbmc
2. Go to MUSIC
3. Delete current music source (AC-DC)
4. Added music source (AC-DC, 2 albums)
5. Selected "Scan Into Library"
6. Once complete, tried to check album info, refresh album info, check song info, etc ...
7. Exited

I noticed in the log that when it goes to fetch from last.fm and allmusic, the results are displayed <results></results> ... is that expected? Because when I go to the results link (example here), I see data.

Thanks again!

[olympia]

My bad as well. My first question should've been "what version are you using".

You're using 9.11 Camelot. Allmusic scraper is broken in this version.
Please upgrade to Dharma beta4.

[tzoom84]

Thanks. I'll give that a shot.
When I first installed, only lucid debian package was available (9.11). But now I see there is a maverick release that is maverick package which I can upgrade to (although I'm having a heck of a time getting my package manager recognizing maverick link...).

I'll update to Dharma and post with the results.

[tzoom84]

olympia:

Thanks!!!

While I couldn't get the latest install to work from the maverick ubuntu version of the repo, I just downloaded via SVN and compiled Dharma 4 locally. It now is reading off allmusic and scraping perfectly.

Thanks again!