mvCentral - Music Videos Plugin (Stable) (6 Viewers)

[Lyfesaver74]

I can go to last.fm and search just fine. This tells me the API is working

 

[Lyfesaver74]

Hi Trevor,

i made some tests with my music videos collection (over 750 videos). The default string replacment dosen't work for me as i wanted, the main problem was with multiple artist, so i definded my own string replacements (see screenshot). My folder structure is: Artist\Artist - Title.ext.
The way i named my videos is for example:

B.o.B. - Airplanes ft Hayley Williams.mkv

i think this is better than:

B.o.B. ft Hayley Williams - Airplanes.mkv

because i have more videos of one artist, and so i have in the artist view only one entry: B.o.B.
otherwise it would be two entries: B.o.B. and B.o.B. ft Hayley Williams.
With those string replacements the parser works nearly perfect (only 50 videos where not recognized).

A few issues/requests:
1. In the default skin, in some videos the title are not displaying (see screenshot). I have the option display raw track enabled.

2. For the videos that i have at least 2 versions, only one thumbnail is creating (see screeenshot)
For example:
- Lady Gaga - Marry the Night.mkv
- Lady Gaga - Marry the Night (Live MTV EMA 2011).mkv
the thumbnail for the first version, is used also for the second version.

3. An option to grab info from billboard and create playlists (like in youtube.fm)
would be very nice. The feature in youtube.fm works good, but the problem are copyrights on youtube, many videos are no available in different countrys (or they are available, but in a totaly different version). So the option to create a playlist with localy saved videos, for example bilboard TOP20 would be very useful

Big thanks!

1 - Thx for the heads up

2 - As the artist and track are exactly the same... last.fm imports it as such so the artwork will match too. I too name my files Artist - Track (extra info).ext so I have Metallica - One.mp4 and Metallica - One (Live at Ft. Worth).avi. Yes both tracks have the same artwork, in my humble opinion, they should match. What would be ideal in my opinion is a overlay icon for the "other versions". For example: Metallica One both have the same image, but mvC detects the word "Live" in the (extra info) then it adds a corner icon to the artwork with the word "Live".

3 - This is a good idea, and might be able to be done. As it stands Trevor is working on adding Allmusic as a provider for extra features like correct Genres (last.fm does not have this feature) and others. I would think that after he has worked out the bugs for that adding providers for playlists could be easily done. But this is just a guess.

EDIT: IMO, B.o.B. - Airplanes ft Hayley Williams.mkv should be named: B.O.B. - Airplanes (ft Hayley Williams).mkv

 

[Shangostar]

I can go to last.fm and search just fine. This tells me the API is working

Yes so can I, worked yesterday on the same files. will try removing and installing plugin again

 

[Lyfesaver74]

I can go to last.fm and search just fine. This tells me the API is working

Yes so can I, worked yesterday on the same files. will try removing and installing plugin again

Set logging to debug and drop your logs in here..... from where it fails.... would love to see what is going on.

 

[trevor]

Anyone know if you can check if the last fm scraper is working, none of my videos are getting any information, says recieving possible matches then once its finished it askes me to confirm possible matches but there are none to choose from, the files normally get picked up fine but i deleted my data base to try a new version.

Enable the 'ignore folder structure when parsing' option in the Import Settings tab and re-scan - the logs will also show you if last.fm is being reached.

thx

 

[trevor]

Shangostar - did enabling that option work for you?

I ask as in the latest version I tightened up the logon around the parsing (too much maybe) and now seems that option is mandantory.

thx

 

[Shangostar]

Ok, with that selected it now works, im pretty sure it was fetching fine yesterday without that checked though.

I'm using the one you sent in a PM, I was getting some windows exception errors with it though when dragging a video into a different album, I rolled the pluggin back to see if it was the same in the version on the download page.

Will try again now as its fetching ok, will report if I get the same errors while dragging into a new album.

Ok, with version 1.0.0.269 im getting
'unhandled exception has occurred'
'Unable to cast object type 'mvcentral.database.dbalbuminfo, to type 'mvcentral.database.dbtrackinfo.

Plus lots of other details in details view but im not sure how to copy these, saved in a log somewhere?

This error happens when i click to collapse or expand an album after dragging a video into a new album

I can click continue and carry on with the plugin as normal but get the same error each time I've dragged and collaped/expanded tree.

near the bottom of the log you can see I moved amy macdonald poison prince to another album and it deleted the album is was in as it was the only song in it. just after that is when I clicked expand tree then the error pops up

 

[trevor]

Ok, with that selected it now works, im pretty sure it was fetching fine yesterday without that checked though.

I'm using the one you sent in a PM, I was getting some windows exception errors with it though when dragging a video into a different album, I rolled the pluggin back to see if it was the same in the version on the download page.

Will try again now as its fetching ok, will report if I get the same errors while dragging into a new album.

Ok, with version 1.0.0.269 im getting
'unhandled exception has occurred'
'Unable to cast object type 'mvcentral.database.dbalbuminfo, to type 'mvcentral.database.dbtrackinfo.

Plus lots of other details in details view but im not sure how to copy these, saved in a log somewhere?

This error happens when i click to collapse or expand an album after dragging a video into a new album

I can click continue and carry on with the plugin as normal but get the same error each time I've dragged and collaped/expanded tree.

near the bottom of the log you can see I moved amy macdonald poison prince to another album and it deleted the album is was in as it was the only song in it. just after that is when I clicked expand tree then the error pops up

Thanks for this, will check it out - it should delete an empty album automaticlly - will check that and you have give me enough info to also me to reproduce - wil try and create a new test version in a day or so.

thx

 

[Shangostar]

As an update incase it helps, noticed it only throws the error if I expand or collapse an album just after dragging, it doesnt do it if I collapse the artist 1st, I can then expand/collapse albums with no errors

 

[Shangostar]

Just realised I can add a custom album as well as looking one up online, thats awesome. Means i can add a custom album for videos not on an album, Live shows etc.

I've noticed though that the artist artwork is displayed at very low res, badly pixelated, even with custom images selected from my local machine that I know are decent quality. The album art is fine though.