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Hi Scott
Thanks for your detailed answer. Messing about directly with an SQL database is way above my knowledge level, unfortunately.
I will try your second suggestion of using the Music Database Import function - presumably I create the file above in something like Notepad? What format should the file be saved in, for XBMC to be able to import it? .xml?
That said, I find it rather strange that a product like XBMC which is so mature and feature packed in so many ways still relies on such clunky methods to work around what appears to me to be an obvious and common problem. I know it's Open Source and coded by volunteers, to whom I'm very grateful for giving their expertise freely for our benefit, but surely these are the kind of problems that will put off a huge number of potential users. I'm reasonably computer literate (although I don't write code), but this sort of "manual labour" to get a program working properly seems like it shouldn't be necessary in this day and age...... How difficult would it be for someone to code an error trap so that if the Scraper finds nothing, it brings up a dialogue box allowing you to enter the information manually within XBMC itself. Wouldn't that be a lot more user friendly?
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2014-10-07, 11:03
(This post was last modified: 2014-10-07, 11:06 by noncom.)
Hi again
Just to say, I have managed to get the Database Import function to work correctly, so I can create entries for these obscure albums. Many thanks.
Still think it should be a Feature Request though for next version to get Kodi to do it in a more slick manner :-)
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Hi Kyungrak
Sorry, I didn't see your post until I'd written my previous one..... I wasn't ignoring you.
It's a fair point you make, with regard to this album at least. If I knew how to upload the info/artwork for this Artist/Album I would happily do so.
My point still stands though with regard to a) compilations of tracks that I've made myself b) unique live recordings
In those instances, no-one else in the world could possibly have them, so what would be the point of uploading information about them? All I would need is an easier way of getting the data into XBMC.
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2014-10-07, 11:51
(This post was last modified: 2014-10-07, 11:53 by kyungrak.)
You should have a look on Musicbrainz and AudioDB websites. All you need is to register if you want to contribute.
Else can't you just use nfo for artists or albums (just asking, never tried actually)?
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Thanks, I'll have a look at those sites.
And if I understand your last sentence correctly, then no, it doesn't seem to work. Pressing "Artist Information" for an artist unknown to the scraper brings up an endless loop of "Searching", and if you Cancel out of it, you are returned to the Artist List and can't access the Information page for that artist.
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I meant using nfo files (artist.nfo and album.nfo) you place in artist and album folders.
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Ah, OK, thanks I wasn't aware of that option. Again, though, it's not exactly User Friendly :-)
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I've never had any edits rejected. As long as you've provided a good source for the information it should get accepted, even though it sometimes takes a bit of time.
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It's great that these sites exist, although for some reason XBMC fails to assign Fanart to a large proportion of the Artists in my collection, even when there are pictures available when you click through to Artist Information and see what's been scraped. I have a music App on my phone (PlayerPro) which found Artist pictures for virtually everything automatically, so it's obviously possible.
But I guess my point is that if XBMC / Kodi wants to move to become more mainstream and less of a niche (dare I say geek?) product, things like this put off a very large number of potential users. Again, I'm not a coder so I could be wrong, but it seems like it wouldn't be difficult at all to add an option to the Menu within XBMC called something like "Edit Artist Information". This could bring up a form with all the fields there to be filled in within the GUI, rather than expecting people to mess about with finding a template .xml or .nfo file, filling it in, saving it, and getting XBMC to import it.
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How do we submit a Feature Request?
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2014-10-08, 18:11
(This post was last modified: 2014-10-08, 18:12 by whitebelly.)
There is a FEATURE SUGGESTIONS thread in the forum (in the DEVELOPMENT section), you can submit something there. I think this edit capability has been requested in the past, so you may want to do a quick search and resurrect that thread of you find it, but don't kill yourself searching, creating a new one is just fine.