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Hmm that is an interesting concept, there are lots of those kind of performances from tv shows and live gigs available online but I don't really like recorded live content so never had to deal with it.
I think I'd try to extract the date for the year and the artist then use the artist name as the album and set the genre to live. But ill have to Download lots of those to give me a good sample to check the usual format. It doesnt help that most uploaders will just name their files anything without following any convention!
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Working on using fanart.tv now, their api seems pretty easy, but they don't have a lot of artists that I do.
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Jacksonliam,
If you are still around can you answer a couple questions for me?
1. When I press "I" in xbmc it shows me a bx with the title of the music video in it. Is there anyway I can get the artist to show in this box too?
I only have about 150 music videos so maybe I will just manually edit every nfo so that the <title> tag includes the artist and title. but then how d i re-scrape? do i just remove my music video source folder and add it again?
2. Is there anyway to get your software to ignore things inside brackets in the filename? e.g. a lot of my videos (downloaded from youtube) have (low) or (club mix) or (SD) or (HQ) that I don't want to appear in the nfo information. any ideas? just manually edit the file names and run your software again?
Thanks. Great piece of software by the way.
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Some of my videos had important stuff in brackets, so I didn't strip those out!
I guess the best way if it's only a few files would be to rename the files! If you want the artist in the title box you'll have to rename all the files to go something like "title artist - artist. avi" i think for files without a dash it puts the whole filename in both the title and artist section, I can't remember, so you might get desired effect by removing all dashes from the filenames!
Or you could download vb. Net express for free, open the source, find the line that stores the title and
add storing the artist to the same section, it shouldn't take that long to figure out :-)
I think there was some way to re scrape, I can't quite remember the place in xbmc but it should be there! I'm not sure if re adding does re scrape, probably.
Liam.
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2012-12-01, 21:45
(This post was last modified: 2013-01-13, 20:47 by thebearnecessit.)
thought i'd quickly summarise how i got this working for me in case it can help anyone:
download and instal and run this programme to get it to create the information (.nfo) files that xbmc will use in order to add music videos to the library.
once i'd run the programme and created all my nfo files, i added a couple of music video scraper addons, then added a new video source, made it a music video source, chose my scraper (last.fm).
once the music video source is added it failed to do a proper scan, so i used the context menu and clicked on "check for new content". that meant that the lastfm scraper found all my nfo files and used them to add all my music video's to the library.