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Cannonball Adderley is still Aerosmith, even after refresh. Get thumb also shows aerosmith thumbs. Any clue in the logs above as to what is wrong (or I'm doing wrong)?
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For any artists that don't identify correctly you can always add an nfo file with the music brainz url in it.
Give that a try.
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I'm new to the Universal Artist/Album scrapers and they're working great for me.
I'm looking for a quick way to get a list of all of the artists and albums that were not found. I see in the debug log that missing artists seem to have a GetArtistSearchResults entry with no content and they're also missing the GetArtistDetails entry. Is there an easier way to get a list of the ones that weren't found? Is the source code available if I want to add a new log message for this?
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Yes all sourcecode is on our XBMC github account
The quickest way is probably to just look if an artist has an image in the xbmc thumbnail view.
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2013-12-04, 08:21
(This post was last modified: 2013-12-07, 01:42 by rgstephens.)
I can't get the Artist scraper to create the extrafanart directory and download the fanart. I have the "Download additional information during updates" option enabled and I've been reviewing my xbmc.log file for errors.
Is there anything else I should be looking at?
Also, where do I find the source code for the artist scraper on my system - what file is it in (can't seem to find it)?
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Q on using universal artist scraper in XBMC Gotham Alpha11:
I had a problem with multiple artists in my database. One specific instance was artist "Boyfriend", Album Artist "Boyfriend" and Album "Boyfriend". XBMC runs universal album scraper first using Album Artist + Album, and got the correct Album MBID and artist MBID. When that was done XBMC ran universal artist scraper using Artist, and the sorted list returned from Musicbrainz had a different artist (same name) as top entry (resulting wrong MBID), so a second entry in the music db artists table was created with the same string (Boyfriend) but each having a different MBID (one right, one wrong).
So I thought I could fix this by creating an artist.nfo with a link to musicbrainz with the correct MBID. I went to the artist info pages and selected "refresh". When I looked at my log it appears that XBMC (or maybe universal artist scraper, not sure) will immediately use the MBID from the database to query musicbrainz and ignore my artist.nfo. I then deleted the music database and did a "scan for new content" and this time universal artist scraper did find the artist.nfo (or XBMC supplied it?) and with that was able to get the right artist (same one as with the universal album scraper). I didn't try removing the files and doing an update/clean cycle and then restoring the files and updating again, but assume that should work as well.
My question then is ISTM that when I am on the artist info page and select "refresh", XBMC should look for a local artist.nfo always and optionally ask if local artist.nfo should be used instead of any MBID found in the database.
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2013-12-21, 15:36
(This post was last modified: 2013-12-21, 15:39 by demonnerd.)
Hi i have a bunch albums and songs that are in Japanese.
like in the term of 600+ albums and this scraper with TheAudioDB/allmusic has failed to up even 50 of them
while this scraper with lastfm back in 2012 (before the API problem) failed to up date almost none.
I do not see my self going to TheAudioDB and manually imputing the info of 600+ albums and countless artists/songs
If you would be so kind to give me a alpha build with the xml lastfm core codes
ill be happy to use my own lastfm API.