Automated Artist / Album Scraping (2 Viewers)

[jameson_uk]

strAlbumArtist = "Alva Noto"
strArtist = "Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto"
strAlbum = "Vrioon"

Yes physically deleted the albuminfo record from the DB and then tried to get the album info via the GUI.

Thanks. Tracked it down.

V2.0.0.2 now on MPEI

 

[Pog]

Nice, V2.0.0.2 is working well here.

I'm making a StreamedMP skin for your gui and the only thing missing is the #selectedthumb property. Not vital but would finish things off nicely to be able to show the album or artist thumb.

 

[jameson_uk]

Nice, V2.0.0.2 is working well here.

I'm making a StreamedMP skin for your gui and the only thing missing is the #selectedthumb property. Not vital but would finish things off nicely to be able to show the album or artist thumb.

Yes thumbs is something on my todo list (I will probably also get rid of the process plugin and allow the background grabbing to be controlled via GUI plugin)

Post you skin file when done and I will add it to MPEI.

I will hopefully (one day) get this all as part of the core MP code but so far this has basically built the current scraping code so has been pretty helpful

 

[emphatic]

The Extension Downloader throws an error about wrong update info or something. The link in the first post points to version 1.0.0.3.

Emph

 

[jameson_uk]

The Extension Downloader throws an error about wrong update info or something. The link in the first post points to version 1.0.0.3.

Emph

I updated links in first post and on extensions page but everything else seems to be working.

What exactly is the issue? Is this via the MPEI tool on the desktop? Is working here via MPEI and extensions plugin.

 

[emphatic]

Yes, desktop tool. I'll give it another go now and see it works.

Edit: When clicking Update - "Invalid update information! Update aborted!"
Edit2: When uninstalling then reinstalling 2.02 I get - "Downloaded version of MusicInfoHandler is 2.0.0.1 and differs from your selected version: 2.0.0.2! Do you want to continue?"

Emph

 

[jameson_uk]

Yes, desktop tool. I'll give it another go now and see it works.

Edit: When clicking Update - "Invalid update information! Update aborted!"
Edit2: When uninstalling then reinstalling 2.02 I get - "Downloaded version of MusicInfoHandler is 2.0.0.1 and differs from your selected version: 2.0.0.2! Do you want to continue?"

Emph

arghhh MPEI is soooooo frustrating.....
V2.0.0.3 is now in place and should all be actually working now...

This includes artist / album thumbs where they exist

 

[Pog]

StreamedMP skin file for MusicInfoHandler GUI.

Copy to C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\skin\StreamedMP

 

[Pog]

Just noticed something missing when importing songs into the DB in MP1.3 compared to MP1.2. If a song contains lyrics they don't get imported any more.

Also I was looking at albums that can't be found by AMG lookup and while the titles are close if they are not exact then they are not found. AMG does not always have the exact title as it appears on an album, sometimes this is just due to abbreviating some words. A solution to this might be to use the list of albums that AMG has for a particular artist and let the user pick the right match. The DB has strAlbums in artistinfo that could be of use for this perhaps.

 

[IchBinsShort]

Hello I have a probloem with multiple artist. When a titel has multiple artist the artist isn't found by your plugin. For example the Album 18 Months from Calvin Harris has a lot of multiple artists. This is for example the "Song We found love". It has Calvin Harris and Rihanna as an Artist. In the Id-Tag (Interpret) I have store the multiple Artist in this form: "Calvin Harris; Rihanna".

Is this a probloem for the Plugin ?