2013-06-21, 04:46
New Beta Available
I know, I'm releasing betas faster than you all can comment on them.
When I started the burn in testing, I found some artists that would return the wrong Musicbrainz ID. So I rewrote the Musicbrainz lookup stuff again (I'm learning more than I ever wanted to about the Musicbrainz API). Hopefully the third time really is the charm. The lookup now properly grabs all of the albums and songs for a potentially matching artist (before it only got the first 25 results). I also changed the logic so that it matches on artist name and album and then artist name and song. The results got much more accurate when doing it that way. Note that streaming music will continue to only match on artist name and song. I made a couple of changes to hopefully make that more accurate, but I've already seen two artists with the same song name and none with the same album name. So I think that means that images downloaded while streaming music are probably more likely to end up with odd (or no) results. I don't think there is much I can do about that given the limited amount of information provided by the stream combined with the way the MusicBrainz API works.
Anyway, it's available at https://github.com/pkscout/script.artist...master.zip
v.1.5.3.005
- completely rewrote musicbrainz lookup (again)
v.1.5.3.004
- fixed musicbrainz lookup so that it works with streaming audio as well
v.1.5.3.003
- fix for artists with ampersand in their name
- fix for last.fm showing unexpected results
v.1.5.3.002
- artist bio and album list now come from theaudiodb.com by default (Last.fm as fallback)
- added download of images from fanart.tv
- added download of images from theaudiodb.com
- fix so that artists with unicode characters in name return results from Last.fm
- changed over to urllib2 for web downloads
v.1.5.3.001
- added musicbrainz ID support
- rearranged settings some to make options clearer
- dropped support for htbackdrops.com (site gone)
I know, I'm releasing betas faster than you all can comment on them.
When I started the burn in testing, I found some artists that would return the wrong Musicbrainz ID. So I rewrote the Musicbrainz lookup stuff again (I'm learning more than I ever wanted to about the Musicbrainz API). Hopefully the third time really is the charm. The lookup now properly grabs all of the albums and songs for a potentially matching artist (before it only got the first 25 results). I also changed the logic so that it matches on artist name and album and then artist name and song. The results got much more accurate when doing it that way. Note that streaming music will continue to only match on artist name and song. I made a couple of changes to hopefully make that more accurate, but I've already seen two artists with the same song name and none with the same album name. So I think that means that images downloaded while streaming music are probably more likely to end up with odd (or no) results. I don't think there is much I can do about that given the limited amount of information provided by the stream combined with the way the MusicBrainz API works.
Anyway, it's available at https://github.com/pkscout/script.artist...master.zip
v.1.5.3.005
- completely rewrote musicbrainz lookup (again)
v.1.5.3.004
- fixed musicbrainz lookup so that it works with streaming audio as well
v.1.5.3.003
- fix for artists with ampersand in their name
- fix for last.fm showing unexpected results
v.1.5.3.002
- artist bio and album list now come from theaudiodb.com by default (Last.fm as fallback)
- added download of images from fanart.tv
- added download of images from theaudiodb.com
- fix so that artists with unicode characters in name return results from Last.fm
- changed over to urllib2 for web downloads
v.1.5.3.001
- added musicbrainz ID support
- rearranged settings some to make options clearer
- dropped support for htbackdrops.com (site gone)
