2019-07-23, 20:56
(2019-07-23, 15:35)olympus Wrote:I had the same idea but havn't tryed it yet.(2019-07-23, 14:56)Publish3r Wrote:(2019-07-23, 03:19)olympus Wrote: As far as I have understood about how Kodi works, I don't think it's possible to make this to work.@olympus Maybe you are right. But another guy from the german kodi forum is using gdrive with rclone and emby. He can scrape his mp3s.
Because music scraping works differently than video scraping.
Kodi reads the metadata of the songs from the files (it's a mandatory) unlike video scraping.
Kodi can't read the files because they are not actual audio files.
I may don't know what I am talking about, but I think I am right on this.
I don't think this is something cguZZMan could make it to work.
Kodi's music scraping would have to be changed fundamentally.
I'm not using emby and i don't want to use it. Rclone is of course an alternative to this addon. I have to try it, maybe it will work with rclone.
I haven't tested it a lot because most of my content is local, I don't have a lot of content in my Google Drive account.
I tried something out of curiosity.
I created some dummy audio files with ffmpeg (with the same duration and metadata) and scraped them.
Then I uploaded the original audio files to my Drive following the same folder structure.
I edited with SQLite Browser the music database db file, the paths, to make it have as root of each album the http directory of them.
I mean this kind of directory http://localhost:8587/source/.
Kodi played them from my Google Drive account.
I am shocked this worked, but I wouldn't suggest anybody to try it.
I think it's a bad idea to edit the db files ourselves, everything can go wrong.
Maybe Emby, I don't have any exprerience on it, gives actual audio files to Kodi.
Let's hope when cguZZMan is back, to give a better answer than mine, he definitely knows if he could make this to work.
It's somethink for a rainy weekend.
Thanks for your suggestions.
Edit:
I found another solution.
I added my GDrive to my Nextcloud, added Nextcloud via webdav to Kodi, MP3 scraping works.