Automated Artist / Album Scraping (2 Viewers)

[emphatic]

It looks and works well in GUI, but no artists with "The", "and" or "&" get any results. Also, while I get a result for "Dust Brothers", it's not removed from the list of artists that miss information. All other artists being scraped successfully are removed from the list.

Emph

 

[Baron of L/S]

It looks and works well in GUI, but no artists with "The", "and" or "&" get any results. Also, while I get a result for "Dust Brothers", it's not removed from the list of artists that miss information. All other artists being scraped successfully are removed from the list.

Emph

I'm getting similar with a lot of "The" Artists and when manually searched it gets the info straight away, i.e. no choices.
Examples The Small Faces, The Village People. Otherwise an excellent addition, thank you Jameson_UK

 

[jameson_uk]

OK another update.
This seems to be working pretty well but needs some testing (Currently only the Titan skin file is there but if anyone wants to make one for any other skin feel free and I can add it)

To get better results requires a fix (http://mantis.team-mediaportal.com/view.php?id=4258)
Attached is a binary that attempts to address those issues. You can rename databases.dll in your MP program files directory and replace it with this one and it should do the job (feedback on that please)

I am particularly interested in things like artists / albums with characters in their name, containing "&" or "and"

 

[Baron of L/S]

OK another update.
This seems to be working pretty well but needs some testing (Currently only the Titan skin file is there but if anyone wants to make one for any other skin feel free and I can add it)

To get better results requires a fix (http://mantis.team-mediaportal.com/view.php?id=4258)
Attached is a binary that attempts to address those issues. You can rename databases.dll in your MP program files directory and replace it with this one and it should do the job (feedback on that please)

I am particularly interested in things like artists / albums with characters in their name, containing "&" or "and"

I've followed the procedure and am getting the following error in log
2013-03-08 09:55:21.949496 [ERROR][MPMain(1)]: No translation found for id 101599
2013-03-08 09:56:33.316578 [ERROR][MPMain(1)]: No translation found for id 101599
Have I not done it correctly?

 

[jameson_uk]

I've followed the procedure and am getting the following error in log 2013-03-08 09:55:21.949496 [ERROR][MPMain(1)]: No translation found for id 101599 2013-03-08 09:56:33.316578 [ERROR][MPMain(1)]: No translation found for id 101599 Have I not done it correctly?

Just something silly in MP. This is of no consequence to how it works. Will sort that though

 

[Baron of L/S]

I've followed the procedure and am getting the following error in log 2013-03-08 09:55:21.949496 [ERROR][MPMain(1)]: No translation found for id 101599 2013-03-08 09:56:33.316578 [ERROR][MPMain(1)]: No translation found for id 101599 Have I not done it correctly?

Just something silly in MP. This is of no consequence to how it works. Will sort that though

Thank you
A much better result with artists with "and" in the name, only 3 not found and they can't be found manually either, great job.
Haven't got any with & but could alter some and test if no-one else can test

 

[emphatic]

I moved all my music to my new NAS, so I had to completely redo the entire music database which gives me a nice opportunity to properly test this. Some artists that don't work (No artist found) when I browse my music and select Show Artist/Album info:

The Ark
The Glove
India Arie
Musiq Soulchild
Only If You Call Me Jonathan
The Prodigy
The Roots
The Smiths
The Velvet Underground

If I use the Plugin menu in TITAN, I (wrongfully) still see The Dust Brothers in the Missing Album Artists list, however, if I do another manual update for them in that screen, the entry disappears.

Cheers
Emph

 

[jameson_uk]

I moved all my music to my new NAS, so I had to completely redo the entire music database which gives me a nice opportunity to properly test this. Some artists that don't work (No artist found) when I browse my music and select Show Artist/Album info:

The Ark
The Glove
India Arie
Musiq Soulchild
Only If You Call Me Jonathan
The Prodigy
The Roots
The Smiths
The Velvet Underground

These all appear to have multiple values on allmusic so the plugin can't tell which one is correct.

If I try to get info manually for The Smiths or The Prodigy it gives me two options

The Smiths - Pop/Rock - 1980s
The Smiths - Stage & Screen - 2010s

The Prodigy - Electronic 1990s - 2010s
The Prodigy - Rap 1990s - 2010s

Selecting the appropriate one from the dialog box does scrape the correct info. Are you saying this is not working?

If I use the Plugin menu in TITAN, I (wrongfully) still see The Dust Brothers in the Missing Album Artists list, however, if I do another manual update for them in that screen, the entry disappears.

This is a feature of the MP scraping that needs fixing. The code inside the plugin is slightly different to the code used when scraping the info via the context menu in the music section. So you are saying that this worked correctly in the plugin but not via the context menu in music section?

 

[emphatic]

If I try to get info manually for The Smiths or The Prodigy it gives me two options

The Smiths - Pop/Rock - 1980s
The Smiths - Stage & Screen - 2010s

The Prodigy - Electronic 1990s - 2010s
The Prodigy - Rap 1990s - 2010s

Selecting the appropriate one from the dialog box does scrape the correct info. Are you saying this is not working?

Yes, I get "No artist found".

So you are saying that this worked correctly in the plugin but not via the context menu in music section?

In the music section, I get the correct result. When I then go to the Plugin menu for this plugin, I see Dust Brothers listed in the Album artists that are not found even though they were in the music section. However, when I do a search in from this screen, Dust Brothers are no longer appearing in the list of not found artists. In the previous plugin verisions, the Dust Brothers were found in this screen, but were somehow "stuck in limbo" at this screen - the search did get a positive result, but they album artist remained flagged as "not found". So this at least seems to be fixed.

Emph

 

[jameson_uk]

Yes, I get "No artist found".

Can you zip up your music database and upload it somewhere so I can try and replicate