mvCentral - Music Videos Plugin (Stable) (1 Viewer)

[luci5r]

Hi guys,

are you able to getting automaticly artist info? I'm not getting anything! When I select www.last.fm by example, it's loading for a few seconds, and than nothing happend.. So, no Artist Art, and no aditional info like Born, Genre, Style, Years, etc..

Should this still use to work?

I don't get anything out of last.fm ... nothing. No artist info; no DVD info. I've had to do my entire collection manually by using the "Add as editable blank", including Artists.

Wish we could use a different scraper then last.fm.

Thanks, that makes sense..

Well, I finally was getting only one single artis image automaticly. (50 cent, just for testing )

The thing of a plugin like this is that everything should go automaticly.. I think there is nothing wrong with the last.fm scraper, but with the comunication between the plugin and the scraper.. All images are present on the website of last.fm, only the plugin can't find it..

Per my experience, that's not entirely accurate.

There is definitely some miscommunication between last.fm & the plugin; for example "Michael Jackson" does exist on last.fm with pictures and everything - but the plugin was not able to scrape the artist properly; only "Bio Content" was filling in - nothing else, including pictures. On the other hand, the artist "Madonna" scraped absolutely fine - pictures & all. I couldn't for the life of me understand why.

However, last.fm is definitely not the bible on music video information, as it should be. Out of 20 retail, officially released music video DVD's that I searched for on last.fm, only 2 actually came up. That's pretty bad. These are retail music video's that can easily be found on IMDB for example; complete with all information. Whether it's a longform music video or concerts officially released; there's a lot missing on last.fm.

At first I thought the plugin was failing to scrape everything; but after manually searching on last.fm, I started to realize they just didn't exist on last.fm.

An IMDB scraping option would definitely resolve this issue. The 18 DVD's that last.fm couldn't come up with are all on IMDB.

 

[Lyfesaver74]

I was having issues for days, then one night it went and added 1500 music videos for me overnight. Took just over an hour.

 

[luci5r]

I was having issues for days, then one night it went and added 1500 music videos for me overnight. Took just over an hour.

You're lucky; It still didn't do anything for me. Still won't scrape some artists & info that does exist on last.fm; but as I stated, a lot of it is not the plugin's fault - it's just not there on last.fm.

 

[Stephen Lee]

I'm on a standard installation of MP 1.7pre and trying to get MvCentral to work but it keeps crashing. I'm using the version posted in #410. I get this error on startup:

"Unhandled exception has occurred in a component in your application. If you click continue, the application will ignore this error and attempt to continue. The type initializer for 'mvCentral.Utils.GUIUtils' threw an exception."

Can anyone help?

 

[catavolt]

This UNOFFICIAL MPEI in the attached ZIP should work

 

[Stephen Lee]

Thanks for posting that.... still not working though unfortunately.

************** Exception Text **************
System.TypeInitializationException: The type initializer for 'mvCentral.Utils.GUIUtils' threw an exception. ---> System.TypeInitializationException: The type initializer for 'MediaPortal.GUI.Library.GUIGraphicsContext' threw an exception. ---> System.IO.FileLoadException: Mixed mode assembly is built against version 'v1.1.4322' of the runtime and cannot be loaded in the 4.0 runtime without additional configuration information.
at MediaPortal.GUI.Library.GUIGraphicsContext..cctor()
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
at MediaPortal.GUI.Library.GUIGraphicsContext.get_Skin()
at mvCentral.Utils.GUIUtils..cctor()
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---

 

[Grisu002]

Just wanted to ask how it. Using a plug and 1.7.0 looks of MP, for me the plugin is not running at the moment

 

[mrbonsen]

This UNOFFICIAL MPEI in the attached ZIP should work

https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/attachments/mvcentral-1-0-6-000_seb_master-zip.147414/
run with me

 

[glenb83]

This UNOFFICIAL MPEI in the attached ZIP should work

https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/attachments/mvcentral-1-0-6-000_seb_master-zip.147414/
run with me

Thanks for the link @mrbonsen! It worked great in that I don't get the error in mediaportal configuration anymore and the plugin can be seen in the plugins section. Problem I'm having now though is I can't actually open it anymore since upgrading to 1.7.0 final. I just get a blank screen which I can't go 'back' on, I have to hit the home button to exit. I've attached a screenshot if anyone can provide a solution.

Thanks in advance!

 

[mrbonsen]

have you backed up database before update / setup?
for me just tested again - no problems
where is screen?