[Aron Parsons]

Where I get stuck is testing the thing, XBMC simply crashes if I use it (no messages in xbmc.log).
The 'Scrap' test tool looks promising, however it is built to handle video scrapers, not music. Tried to fix that as well, but got caught up in C++ syntax :S Scraper development would be much easier if anyone could fix that Scrap tool. Doesn't look like an easy job, though ..
Am I missing a development tool here, should I be debugging from Visual C++ etc. ?

I was fighting with the same thing last night. The 'Scrap' tool doesn't work correctly. Getting it to compile and run on Linux will be the first step, so maybe I'll try to get that sorted out over the upcoming weekend. Trying to debug scrapers through XBMC's GUI doesn't sound like fun.