+1 here also.
Finally i've found a thread regarding specifically this important issue.
There are many bits and pieces about/similar to this subject scattered all over this forum, but i believe this topic has not received the attention it deserves.
Cudos for AnalogKid for starting this thread.
For whatever different reasons people want local scraping, it is important that XBMC respects and presents the metadata that we previously prepared and in the way we wanted/intended to be.
I have all my media in a NAS that is prepared and organised just the way i want. Every player in the house access the same NAS and it should just be necessary to point out the locations for music/videos,etc and it should behave the same in all of them. In the way i wanted and spent many time preparing.
That doesn't happen, and the scraping produces erratic and unpredictable results.
XBMC has grown so much and so well in all these years. It has been added with so many features that now it does almost everything except making coffee
Surely online scraping is a great feature, but this produces many errors (more, i believe, for languages other than English).
While this is usefull and acceptable for many people, forcing users with organised and structured collection of media to use this, doesn't seem an improvement.
It seems that we spend all the time looking for errors in the library, analising, finding solutions, correcting and tweaking things rather than actually enjoying our media.
The geak part of me likes tweaking things, but at some point i'll just want to be able to enjoy it and have something to show for.
Please think a little more in terms of usefullness for the dedicated and organised users, and not so much in "swiss army knife" development and "bring a bare media file, we do the rest" ideology.