2019-07-23, 15:35
(2019-07-23, 14:56)Publish3r Wrote:(2019-07-23, 03:19)olympus Wrote:@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.(2019-07-22, 15:24)Publish3r Wrote: 2.) - very important for me:
Added Google Drive to Video and Music database/library with localhost:port/path...
It's working for both.
Videofiles scraping works. All information are loaded.
MP3 scraping ist not working. Kodi tries to scrape... 0% up to 100% but in the end no data found.
As far as I have understood about how Kodi works, I don't think it's possible to make this to work.
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.