2023-03-11, 05:16
I've seen this question asked a few times with little in the way of a satisfactory answer: How do you scrape multiple albums from the same artist with the same name?
That would never happen, right? Except it has, repeatedly, with Weezer. Weezer's eponymous 1994 album, their debut, was followed by Weezer (2001), Weezer (2008), Weezer (2016), Weezer (2019), and Weezer (2019, second album in the same year). Each album is identified by fans/unofficially by the color of it's cover: Weezer (The Blue Album), Weezer (The Green Album), Weezer (The Red Album), Weezer (The White Albim), Weezer (The Teal Album), Weezer (The Black Album).
Before they hit Weezer (The Burnt Cyan Album) it would be really, really great if there was an easy way to scrape these albums into Kodi.
Using the Universal Album Scraper and AudioDB scraper — they pretty much seem to randomly selected Red or Green albums even though I'm trying to scrape Blue (1994). If you specify Weezer (The Blue Album), no match is found, because technically (and in the source DBs) this is generally seen as just Weezer I suppose.
In a previous attempt to make this work, another user was told to add a direct link to the musicbrainz DB entry for the album in an album.nfo file - this did not work for me. (https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=133547&page=14). I still wind up with random entries, Red for Green, Green for Blue, etc. Like the nfo is being ignored.
A few people have been asked about this (i.e. https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=240320) over the years. Would be great to have a solution. Any suggestions?
That would never happen, right? Except it has, repeatedly, with Weezer. Weezer's eponymous 1994 album, their debut, was followed by Weezer (2001), Weezer (2008), Weezer (2016), Weezer (2019), and Weezer (2019, second album in the same year). Each album is identified by fans/unofficially by the color of it's cover: Weezer (The Blue Album), Weezer (The Green Album), Weezer (The Red Album), Weezer (The White Albim), Weezer (The Teal Album), Weezer (The Black Album).
Before they hit Weezer (The Burnt Cyan Album) it would be really, really great if there was an easy way to scrape these albums into Kodi.
Using the Universal Album Scraper and AudioDB scraper — they pretty much seem to randomly selected Red or Green albums even though I'm trying to scrape Blue (1994). If you specify Weezer (The Blue Album), no match is found, because technically (and in the source DBs) this is generally seen as just Weezer I suppose.
In a previous attempt to make this work, another user was told to add a direct link to the musicbrainz DB entry for the album in an album.nfo file - this did not work for me. (https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=133547&page=14). I still wind up with random entries, Red for Green, Green for Blue, etc. Like the nfo is being ignored.
A few people have been asked about this (i.e. https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=240320) over the years. Would be great to have a solution. Any suggestions?