Automated Artist / Album Scraping (1 Viewer)

[catavolt]

So count on me regarding your "Help Wanted"

 

[wouter1971]

Regarding the fanart: htbackdrops is back

I get Error 500 Internal Server Error....

 

[CypherMK]

Help Wanted
OK I have some stuff I am working on in this area and need some people to help do some experimentation.

I need people who

• Are running MP 1.4
• Have a music collection that is
  • a reasonable size (200+ artists / 400+ albums type area)
  • have it tagged pretty well
  • Have music that other people may have heard of (I don't want people who only listen to bands from small villages in Kazakhstan but mildly obscure stuff is OK)
• Are mildly technical and can do some digging themselves
• Don't mind trying some experimental ideas with the view that they may need to keep backups of their music data to go back to

but most importantly I want people who have enthusiasm to improve this and MP and time to help out.


If anyone does want to help can they drop me a PM?

I can help a bit. I have about 50000 music files. I think about 90% is tagged correctly. But I am only very mildy technical

 

[catavolt]

I get Error 500 Internal Server Error..

Check the htbackdrops thread

 

[IchBinsShort]

Now I'm a little confused. Is not it so that the thumbs are loaded already from the fanart handler plugin down. Then why to use a new plugin?

 

[catavolt]

Then why to use a new plugin?

Who said anything about a new plugin?

 

[IchBinsShort]

Then why to use a new plugin?

Who said anything about a new plugin?

I thought it was a new plugin. Because the Music Info plugin until now was only responsible for the download of the album artist information. To download the thumbs and fanart but the fanart handler plugin was responsible. That's why I'm getting a bit confused

 

[Edalex]

I din't find in code any mention of splitting artist name by words presenting, pres., featuring, feat. Is it possible to add?

 

[emphatic]

I din't find in code any mention of splitting artist name by words presenting, pres., featuring, feat. Is it possible to add?

Best way (IMHO) is to have the featured artist (singer for example) in the song field:

Song -> Silence Feat. Sarah McLachlan
Artist -> Delerium

Second best is using album artist:
Song -> Silence
Artist -> Delerium Feat. Sarah McLachlan
Album Artist -> Delerium

But, not all tags are consistent depending on your shop or ripping software, so the really best way for MediaPortal's music section would be to scrape everything into the database, including artist name and song name, like how Moving Pictures and MP TV-Series does. This way, everything shows up perfectly and should also be easy to scrape additional data for (images, lyrics etc.). Once upon a time, I was involved in developing a plugin for this, but the coder(s) disappeared from this community, sadly.

Emph

 

[Edalex]

so the really best way for MediaPortal's music section would be to scrape everything into the database, including artist name and song name, like how Moving Pictures and MP TV-Series does.

ofc, but i'm telling about finding matches online. Such splitting could maximize succesfull matches count as I think