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<blockquote data-quote="luci5r" data-source="post: 1066792" data-attributes="member: 113478">Per my experience, that's not entirely accurate.There is definitely some miscommunication between last.fm &amp; the plugin; for example &quot;Michael Jackson&quot; does exist on last.fm with pictures and everything - but the plugin was not able to scrape the artist properly; only &quot;Bio Content&quot; was filling in - nothing else, including pictures. On the other hand, the artist &quot;Madonna&quot; scraped absolutely fine - pictures &amp; 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.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="luci5r, post: 1066792, member: 113478"] 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. [/QUOTE]

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