2009-10-01, 01:00
Should be fixed in r23269. No idea what went wrong on my first tests to reproduce this issue
vdrfan Wrote:Should be fixed in r23269. No idea what went wrong on my first tests to reproduce this issue
vdrfan Wrote:Btw, I've played with the discogs API myself some time ago but dropped it, as it seemed to be a PITA to identify the correct album. Searching for "Kelly Clarkson" (no, not my music taste, just an example) returned a Disney Single in first place eg.
Quote:Edit: Also note, I've left the default settings to use Allmusic for everything and NOT use the other sources, so you'll have to go into the Scraper Settings if you want to enable scraping from Last.fm and/or Discogs.
blacklist Wrote:Forgive me if I'm being dense... but where are the music scraper settings? I can get them from all the video sources, but don't seem to have access to anything but simply picking the scraper in the music settings.
talisto Wrote:Ok, now that the music scraper settings are working properly (thanks vdrfan!), I'm back to work on creating my ultimate music scraper.
I've decided that Allmusic has the best text info, Last.fm has the best artist photos (after discovering that original/unresized photos are available through the API!), and Discogs has the best album artwork. So I've abstracted functions from all those sources, and have combined them into the Allmusic scraper as optional settings, much in the same way HTBackdrops is an option in all the scrapers.
I've also switched Discogs to use the API calls rather than HTML scraping, which I've found to be MUCH faster.
I've zipped up my music scraper folder for anyone who is interested in trying it (note: you NEED SVN r23269 or higher for this to work properly!):
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?bxdvj1jzntz
Note that the Discogs functions use my own personal API key, not that it really matters, but maybe one of the XBMC devs could sign up for an "official" API key that I can add to the scrapers?
Edit: Also note, I've left the default settings to use Allmusic for everything and NOT use the other sources, so you'll have to go into the Scraper Settings if you want to enable scraping from Last.fm and/or Discogs.
steve1977 Wrote:Thanks, this sounds very great. Three brief questions:
1) I am not sure whether I understand your "edit". Will it be sufficient just to copy the files you have uploaded somewhere and then everything is set or do I still need to play with the settings? Given your huge music database and success of identifying artist and album art, I would like to follow your settings.
2) I have actually pretty comprehensive ID-Tags including the album cover. Does this matter for the scraper settings?
3) Do I need to activate HTBackdrops in the settings for "artist thumbs" in order to get the fanart? In other words, if I deactivate "artist thumbs from HTBackdrops", will I still get fanart from HTBackdrops?
paco Wrote:have your patches been added to the SVN? When I downloaded the latest SVN, I went into the allmusic scraper and the scraper options were grayed out.
Roborob Wrote:Sounds very nice this script, but not working here. I can see the script in the settings and I can set the new options, problem is if i go back to the settings it is default again.