2016-07-21, 14:12
(2016-07-20, 08:12)Solo0815 Wrote:(2016-07-19, 05:27)pkscout Wrote: With 2.0 the decision was made (with input from some of the Kodi folks) that AS would no longer try and find a MusicBrainzID for an artist. AS was generating a huge amount of traffic and causing significant issues for the MusicBrainz folks. ...That is very disappointing. Can't AS not just search for the artist-name?
The fanart.tv API does not provide a mechanism (at least as far as I know) for searching by name. IT looks like I can search by name in theaudiodb (I don't remember seeing that before). I'll look into adding that as a fallback option if there is no MusicBrainz ID. For now, if you don't have MusicBrainz IDs, you are limited to htbackdrops (which is still offline).
edit: updated with new info on theaudiodb searching