Is it possible to add background music? (1 Viewer)

[bubsy83]

seen this for xbmc [RELEASE] TvTunes Addon - TV Show Theme Music while browsing - XBMC Community Forum
any chance of doing it on my tvseries?

 

[1stdead]

Would indeed be nice, there's already an enhancement ticket for it. You can tick it here: Issue 236 - mptvseries - Play theme song when TV series is selected - Project Hosting on Google Code

 

[ltfearme]

Is there an developer API for that site by any chance? I had a 1min glance at the site and nothing jumped out at me.

 

[bubsy83]

Is there an developer API for that site by any chance? I had a 1min glance at the site and nothing jumped out at me.

Sorry to sound a bit thick, but what is that?

 

[RoChess]

Is there an developer API for that site by any chance? I had a 1min glance at the site and nothing jumped out at me.

Sorry to sound a bit thick, but what is that?

API = Application Programming Interface

What it means is that otherwise MP-TVSeries needs to create a HTML scraper system to first go to the search.php page with a request, then await results, then interpret the HTML search results, then put in another request to obtain the actual the file. With an API system this is done at a higher level, not relying on HTML, but usually XML. A request is put in and all the information needed is given back in XML format.

For example this is the API system from TheTVdB used by MP-TVSeries to lookup TV show 'Lost' = http://www.thetvdb.com/api/GetSeries.php?seriesname=Lost

It is just a much nicer way for a programmer to get the right results, because the creator of the API system explains in the API documentation what they expect and what they will provide. Otherwise it can be a nightmare to accomodate all the different combinations.

 

[bubsy83]

any news on if anyone can implement this?

 

[meesham]

I've just had a quick look at the XBMC script and the guy has written a scraper, there's no API - his code is here: http://xbmc.git.sourceforge.net/git...f=script.tvtunes/resources/tvtunes_scraper.py

How it seems to work is he does a text search at http://www.televisiontunes.com/search.php?searWords=%s&Send=Search where %s is the name of the show, a list of results (just show names) is then presented to the user and they choose which show it matches. He then calls http://www.televisiontunes.com/download.php?f=%s where %s is the selected show name which returns an mp3 file. It doesn't make use of TVDB IDs or anything unique, it's just text name matching that requires user interaction/confirmation.

 

[NEWU1]

I would LOVE to see that implemented...

 

[vrm42]

+1

I would be satisfied with "theme.mp3" file to put in the series root folder.

 

[z3us]

So would I