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Hi.
The music scraper is coming along nicely. It’s looking like it will turn out to be many times better than I ever expected.
In principle, you can feed the scraper a collection of unsorted .mp3, .flac, .ogg, or similar files. As long as there is some indication of which track or album a file belongs to—such as its filename or ID3 tags—the scraper will (almost always) correctly identify it, apply the appropriate tags, rename the file according to a configurable scheme, and download the corresponding lyrics. Much like with TV shows or movies, you can also provide a MusicBrainz ID to assist with identification. The scraper can also retrieve fan art and metadata for both albums and artists—all of which is fully configurable. Optionally, song lyrics, album information, and artwork can be embedded directly into the music files, similar to how most dedicated external tagging programs operate. Furthermore, if configured to do so, the scraper can create folders for albums and/or artists, and store artist-related information in Kodi’s central artist artwork directory (either in addition to or instead of embedding it in the files).
And all of this happens fully automatically, without requiring any user intervention. Naturally, there is also an option for manual adjustments, allowing you to correct any errors made by the automated process. That said, in recent tests involving over 100 different audio files, the scraper achieved a 100% success rate—a significant improvement from the initial 60–70% range. The extra effort has truly paid off, though, of course, no absolute guarantee can be given.
While working on the music scraper (a project still in progress), the idea emerged to potentially include song lyrics as subtitles in music videos—essentially converting .lrc files into .srt files. This strikes me as a great idea; it would allow users to choose whether or not to display the lyrics as subtitles when playing music videos. This feature is not yet complete, but it is being implemented.
The music scraper is coming along nicely. It’s looking like it will turn out to be many times better than I ever expected.
In principle, you can feed the scraper a collection of unsorted .mp3, .flac, .ogg, or similar files. As long as there is some indication of which track or album a file belongs to—such as its filename or ID3 tags—the scraper will (almost always) correctly identify it, apply the appropriate tags, rename the file according to a configurable scheme, and download the corresponding lyrics. Much like with TV shows or movies, you can also provide a MusicBrainz ID to assist with identification. The scraper can also retrieve fan art and metadata for both albums and artists—all of which is fully configurable. Optionally, song lyrics, album information, and artwork can be embedded directly into the music files, similar to how most dedicated external tagging programs operate. Furthermore, if configured to do so, the scraper can create folders for albums and/or artists, and store artist-related information in Kodi’s central artist artwork directory (either in addition to or instead of embedding it in the files).
And all of this happens fully automatically, without requiring any user intervention. Naturally, there is also an option for manual adjustments, allowing you to correct any errors made by the automated process. That said, in recent tests involving over 100 different audio files, the scraper achieved a 100% success rate—a significant improvement from the initial 60–70% range. The extra effort has truly paid off, though, of course, no absolute guarantee can be given.
While working on the music scraper (a project still in progress), the idea emerged to potentially include song lyrics as subtitles in music videos—essentially converting .lrc files into .srt files. This strikes me as a great idea; it would allow users to choose whether or not to display the lyrics as subtitles when playing music videos. This feature is not yet complete, but it is being implemented.