2016-05-25, 02:01
(2016-05-24, 13:10)manfeed Wrote: Hi pkscout! Having a look at the data collected by AS in userdata\addon_data folder and I'm impressed! Could it be possible to have an option to pass that data to an artist.nfo file in the artists folder? That would be incredible since right now there's no scraper nor any other addon that retrieves so much information about artists as AS!
AS is not meant to be a scraper, and it really doesn't collect anymore info than the built-in scrapers do. In fact, basically everything I'm displaying except the actual fanart is in Kodi somewhere. That's why for version 2 the bio will be taken by default from Kodi. The discography is also in Kodi, but not accessible to external programs from what I can tell. I'm probably going to put in a request with the Kodi folks to make that accessible. Then AS can use most of the internal information Kodi already has.
Quote:Another question: from my experience, LastFm is the best place to find artists; I try to get artists information in Spanish whenever possible, but I'd rather have it in English than empty, however if I select Spanish in preferred language in AS settings and that artist doesn't have biography in Spanish in LastFM I get nothing (even if English biography does exist) Would it be possible to fallback to English in that case?
I'll have to look into this. I'm sure it's possible, but it won't make it for the 2.0 release.