[talisto]

Ok, now that the music scraper settings are working properly (thanks vdrfan!), I'm back to work on creating my ultimate music scraper.

I've decided that Allmusic has the best text info, Last.fm has the best artist photos (after discovering that original/unresized photos are available through the API!), and Discogs has the best album artwork. So I've abstracted functions from all those sources, and have combined them into the Allmusic scraper as optional settings, much in the same way HTBackdrops is an option in all the scrapers.

I've also switched Discogs to use the API calls rather than HTML scraping, which I've found to be MUCH faster.

I've zipped up my music scraper folder for anyone who is interested in trying it (note: you NEED SVN r23269 or higher for this to work properly!):

EDIT: My changes are now in the latest SVN builds. Just download that instead!

Note that the Discogs functions use my own personal API key, not that it really matters, but maybe one of the XBMC devs could sign up for an "official" API key that I can add to the scrapers?

Edit: Also note, I've left the default settings to use Allmusic for everything and NOT use the other sources, so you'll have to go into the Scraper Settings if you want to enable scraping from Last.fm and/or Discogs.