2014-04-15, 13:43
(2014-03-31, 17:21)LEDFan Wrote:(2014-03-31, 13:24)TeflonDog Wrote: Well as soon as I started working on that I realized it's only going to be scraping from the song tags (obviously). So all it populates is the Artist name, genre and a bunch of empty tags. (I guess at least it makes a template artist.nfo).
There must be a program (other than xbmc) out there that scrapes info from discogs, musicbrainz, etc. for artists. I don't know why, but my xbmc has trouble getting full information for artists (and albums).
... In the middle of writing this reply, I finally had success for the first time putting just the URL in the artist.nfo. (It needs to the "permanent URL" for the Details page. However, the artist I chose doesn't have any mood/genre/etc tags on Musicbrainz so I need an XML nfo file for it.
On my side, I only answered to this part of your first post:
(2014-03-23, 11:07)TeflonDog Wrote: Is there a program for creating album.nfo and artist.nfo files?
For scraping issues, it's not related on my answer. You can edit your songs tags with MP3Tag or any other program before exporting them to NFO afterwards. Also, if you have empty fields, you can still edit the template in order to add/edit/remove tags and, if you have added them in the tags previously, they will show after the export process.
There is a good program to scrape: it's called MusicBrainz Picard: http://musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBrainz_Picard
You've got my album_nfo.mte template file, did you build an artist.nfo template? Could you share it?
I made an artist.nfo template for MP3Tag but it's very, very basic. I pretty much just deleted some stuff out of your album.nfo. I don't know how to add bio info or anything (which is currently populated by whatever is in the "comments" tag).
But anyways I guess it will save a bit of time by creating a template that can be filled in later. You can find it here on dropbox.
I find musicbrainz is great for new or common releases. But for older vinyl or foreign releases it doesn't have anywhere near as much info as Discogs has.
cheers
