[scott967]

Need some tagging advice for Artist Slideshow comparability.

I'm currently on 1.5.2, sort have been watching 1.5.3 progress. My problem is that I have many Korean and Japanese artists. It seems like to get art from Last.FM you often need to have the song artist in Hangul or Katakana characters, but in most cases on Musicbrainz they will use Latin characters (but it is kind of hit or miss). For my own benefit I have entered tags with artist and album MBIDs, but I guess nothing in XBMC or addons read these so no help for this. Last.FM typically has the best results for me so I would like to keep ability to have Artist Slideshow query that source if possible. Any suggestions or pointers? I have played with editing the nfos that Artist Slideshow creates but that's kind of slow going.

1.5.3 will maintain all the last.fm functionality, so you could just leave it the way it is and you'll keep getting all the artwork, bios, and albums from last.fm. The other option is that if you can somehow get the musicbrainz ID for the given artist into the right place in the XBMC database (no, I don't know what the right place is), then in theory AS 1.5.3 will read that by using a JSON request to get it from XBMC. The thing is, I can't really test that code, as I don't have any artists that have the musicbrainz ID scraped and in the database. I believe that is suppose to be coming in XBMC 13, so I tried to code for that possibility.

Thanks. I've been digging into getting 1.5.2 running. Having a problem with the script returning "site unreachable" from last.fm, but when I copy the url into a browser it works (returns data as expected). This is on XBMC 12.2 and Ace skin 1.7.0. For testing I set an AS local folder as "testmusic" (no local data is present for this artist though). Here is my log: http://xbmclogs.com/show.php?id=35532 with AS started on thread 6816 @ line 767. I tried my api key just in case (didn't think it would matter since it works in browser) and still get "site unreachable". Near as I can tell something is going wrong with a call to urllib.urlretrieve(url,filename)? I see another user seems to have had this problem, but if couldn't tell if it was ever resolved.

So I installed 1.5.3.009 just to see what would happen and it's a little hard to follow the logs but this time it worked, even though the same url to last.fm was generated.

I did notice that 1.5.3.009 went to musicbrainz and did find the artist MBID, but when it couldn't find a matching release or recording it threw the artist MBID away (apparently). FWIW the script also logged an error on a unicode comparison. Sent a log on this to pastebin if interested. http://pastebin.com/EWVdAVGT

So from my perspective I am making progress.

scott s.
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