2013-02-17, 14:48
Hey Giftie
Firstly, thanks for all of your efforts in creating such a polished script. We ran into many of the same problems described within this forum … but, overcame them. As you say, if you follow the guide to the letter, it works great! In fact I am totally delighted – I am currently rebuilding our entire music library – there will be several thousand albums (a hell of a lot of re-ripping to do to bring them up to lossless audio) and currently have 17,000+ tracks previously ripped that need re-tagging and some polishing as we move them from our old iTunes library (don't you just HATE iTunes 11!!!).
Here is our issue - not a cdArt Manager problem though! Just need some sort of workaround.
We have MANY Various Artists compilation albums. For example, 1970's Greatest Rock. 40 tracks on the album 30 of which we have on the original artist albums 7 we can't stand and don't want, leaving 3 tracks.
Here's what WE have done … we have ripped only the 3 tracks we wanted, tagged them through MusicBrainz for genre etc. To prevent duplication of tracks in the library (and to save space).
We have created within our Music Library > Various Artists folder a set of compilation folders Private Stash 1950, Private Stash 1951 … Private Stash 1979 an so on. Within these folders we have created a folder.jpg and cdart.png (That was a dull afternoon).
The 3 tracks we ripped have been tagged with their respected 'date' tag set to, for example 1979, the 'albumartist' tag set to Various Artists, and the 'album' tag set to Private Stash 1979 … the flac files are then moved to the corresponding folder; Private Stash 1979.
All good. Looks great on screen and XBMC loads the albums perfectly.
Now for the issue.
When we run the cdArt Manager Database update – it hits these spoofed Private Stash album titles and stalls on each one for about 15 seconds whilst it tries for MusicBrainz ids (which it just isn't going to find), then moves on. It doesn't hang or crash. It also does this for a few other ripped singles and a couple of other albums.
I hope you can follow what I have tried to describe.
So, at long last – here is the question. How can I stop or disable cdArt Manager looking or hunting for these albums?
Thank you in advance for any thoughts you may have. I have looked around the forums and Google for a while, I promise
Excellent script – Remember, for each moaner on the forum there are probably a thousand that are delighted. You have to put the work into organising your library – if you can't be arsed to do that, then just go back to playing your CDs the old fashioned way … but most likely, if they can't keep things organised on a computer – the CDs are most likely scratched or not in their cases anyway
Firstly, thanks for all of your efforts in creating such a polished script. We ran into many of the same problems described within this forum … but, overcame them. As you say, if you follow the guide to the letter, it works great! In fact I am totally delighted – I am currently rebuilding our entire music library – there will be several thousand albums (a hell of a lot of re-ripping to do to bring them up to lossless audio) and currently have 17,000+ tracks previously ripped that need re-tagging and some polishing as we move them from our old iTunes library (don't you just HATE iTunes 11!!!).
Here is our issue - not a cdArt Manager problem though! Just need some sort of workaround.
We have MANY Various Artists compilation albums. For example, 1970's Greatest Rock. 40 tracks on the album 30 of which we have on the original artist albums 7 we can't stand and don't want, leaving 3 tracks.
Here's what WE have done … we have ripped only the 3 tracks we wanted, tagged them through MusicBrainz for genre etc. To prevent duplication of tracks in the library (and to save space).
We have created within our Music Library > Various Artists folder a set of compilation folders Private Stash 1950, Private Stash 1951 … Private Stash 1979 an so on. Within these folders we have created a folder.jpg and cdart.png (That was a dull afternoon).
The 3 tracks we ripped have been tagged with their respected 'date' tag set to, for example 1979, the 'albumartist' tag set to Various Artists, and the 'album' tag set to Private Stash 1979 … the flac files are then moved to the corresponding folder; Private Stash 1979.
All good. Looks great on screen and XBMC loads the albums perfectly.
Now for the issue.
When we run the cdArt Manager Database update – it hits these spoofed Private Stash album titles and stalls on each one for about 15 seconds whilst it tries for MusicBrainz ids (which it just isn't going to find), then moves on. It doesn't hang or crash. It also does this for a few other ripped singles and a couple of other albums.
I hope you can follow what I have tried to describe.
So, at long last – here is the question. How can I stop or disable cdArt Manager looking or hunting for these albums?
Thank you in advance for any thoughts you may have. I have looked around the forums and Google for a while, I promise
Excellent script – Remember, for each moaner on the forum there are probably a thousand that are delighted. You have to put the work into organising your library – if you can't be arsed to do that, then just go back to playing your CDs the old fashioned way … but most likely, if they can't keep things organised on a computer – the CDs are most likely scratched or not in their cases anyway
