2022-06-05, 18:53
I've only just stumbled upon MC while in search of a solution to the Music Video scraping shortcomings of Kodi. I was very excited to see Music Video support touted as a major new feature but I can't seem to get it to work very well and hoping someone can help me out.
When I try to scrape my Music Videos I get very little success using any scraper. With the wiki scraper, my log output looks like this:
Once cancelled, if I try manually pointing MC at the correct Wiki entry, I see this:
Which kind of looks like all the work done cleaning the filename is ignored when try to manually match. Could the cleaning process also be getting skipped when scraping? The log posted above seems to show filename cleaning is working but this manual Wiki matching makes me wonder. Here are a few filename examples from my collection:
2 Unlimited - Here I Go.DVD.FLAC2.0.x264.mkv
2 Unlimited - Tribal Dance.ProRes.FLAC2.0.x264.mkv
4 Non Blondes - What's Up.1993.DVD.FLAC2.0.MPEG2.mkv
Aaliyah - Back & Forth.DVD.PCM2.0.MPEG2.vob
I added ProRes, FLAC, MPEG2 etc to the "Video Source" and "Clean Filename" sections already.
The final issue I'm having is that I don't mind manually Wiki matching every video however once I've corrected the internal Google search, opened the correct Wiki page, verified artwork, release year etc are present and pressed [Go], only the title and artist actually get scraped. The year and artwork which were present on the Wiki page are left and I have to manually fill them in.
When I try to scrape my Music Videos I get very little success using any scraper. With the wiki scraper, my log output looks like this:
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* One Or more errors were detected during scraping. See below for details. *
* To disable seeing this, turn off General Preferences -'Show log on error'. *
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257 new movies found in [\\192.168.0.3\Music Videos]
A total of 257 new movies found -> Starting Main Scraper Process...
Scraping Title: 2 Unlimited - Here I Go
Unable to scrape body with refs :
Scraping Title: 2 Unlimited - Tribal Dance
Unable to scrape body with refs :
Scraping Title: 4 Non Blondes - What's Up
Unable to scrape body with refs :
Scraping Title: Aaliyah feat Timbaland - Try Again
Unable to scrape body with refs :
Scraping Title: Adam F - Circles cam
Unable to scrape body with refs :
Scraping Title: Adam F - Music In My Mind
Unable to scrape body with refs :
Scraping Title: Adele - Cold Shoulder
Unable to scrape body with refs :
Scraping Title: Adele - Hello
Unable to scrape body with refs :
Operation cancelled by user
Once cancelled, if I try manually pointing MC at the correct Wiki entry, I see this:
Which kind of looks like all the work done cleaning the filename is ignored when try to manually match. Could the cleaning process also be getting skipped when scraping? The log posted above seems to show filename cleaning is working but this manual Wiki matching makes me wonder. Here are a few filename examples from my collection:
2 Unlimited - Here I Go.DVD.FLAC2.0.x264.mkv
2 Unlimited - Tribal Dance.ProRes.FLAC2.0.x264.mkv
4 Non Blondes - What's Up.1993.DVD.FLAC2.0.MPEG2.mkv
Aaliyah - Back & Forth.DVD.PCM2.0.MPEG2.vob
I added ProRes, FLAC, MPEG2 etc to the "Video Source" and "Clean Filename" sections already.
The final issue I'm having is that I don't mind manually Wiki matching every video however once I've corrected the internal Google search, opened the correct Wiki page, verified artwork, release year etc are present and pressed [Go], only the title and artist actually get scraped. The year and artwork which were present on the Wiki page are left and I have to manually fill them in.
