[bornagainpenguin]

BTW what scraper are you using? THX

I used to use the default one but the database on www.theaudiodb.com has nearly never worked right for me no matter how much time I put into naming the files correctly.  By default it has a heavy preference for greatest hits collections.  So after some time I discovered that MediaElch supports music videos in the Concerts section.  I tend to use that to manually enter information from Wikipedia if there is a song article for the song I'm scraping for.

I usually keep the first line of the article, something along the lines of '"XYZ" is a song by COUNTRY NAME singer\band\performer, from their album "ABC" released in Year Zero.' and then copy some of the chart performance data.  Most skins tend to try to marquee the text if it is too much to display so I try for a minimum that will make it look right without triggering a scroll.  I either then source the single cover for  the song from Wikipedia or if I must I trawl Google Images which works better than most other search engines for a copy of the song cover, whether that is a streaming image or the actual single cover on a 45 or a Compact Maxi-single or what have you.  I also tend to rely on Wikipedia for genres and do my best to fill in what language the song is in and attach tags to the song for later use in playlists.

I maintain a tag for NSFW stuff, mostly for stuff like Prodigy's 'Smack My B**** Up' which I really would prefer not play in front of my nieces if they happen to be around.  This makes it easier to prevent such things, as you might have noticed I made sure  to specifically block out that tag for most of my stuff.  Putting in  the correct data means that I can make a playlist like the 'I Love the 80s' one and block it so only songs from that period show up.

On my Worship TV playlist I have a tag for subtitles because I am actively seeking those for songs when I can find them and when I get inspired enough using Gaupol to manually sync the lyrics to the video.  Depending on inspiration and availability I may give a try at adding subtitles to everything down the road.  I'm hard of hearing so subtitles are important to me.

It can be a lot of work but since the YouTube addon has become a nightmare to use and the music radio addons I used to like have all become defunct, even with an account I've more or less moved entirely over to music videos for my music.  A legacy of being one of those people who grew up with Music Television and who still wants their MTV.  Once the bumpers and ads are available again I even plan on hunting down a couple of those old Encyclopedia Britannica commercials to have it show up for nostalgia's sake.

So yeah, I am the scraper.

I really hope that music videos don't ever totally go away on Kodi.  I know they've been neglected but I always hold out hope that if the right person comes along all that can change and some nice features could show up, like a method to just overlay the name of the song, the performer, the album it appears on and the year.  Preferably in the right corner so it won't interfere with the music videos sourced from MTV recordings for which there are no better copies and already have that information in place on the left corner.  I hold out hope that there can be a method to trigger 'blocks' of songs, so that you can set it up to play a minimum of X genre before moving on to Y genre.

Currently the music videos are working again but they have a cutoff point which makes little sense or reason.  So you get ten videos or something in a channel and then nothing.