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<blockquote data-quote="jburnette" data-source="post: 310816" data-attributes="member: 24356"><p>Sorry guys, I've been out of the state because of work for the past week so I'm just now back to polishing up the next version. I hope to get it out this weekend as it is much improved.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I'm almost positive this is a result of a bug that was limiting the actual adding to only go 1 level deep in a folder structure. This is fixed (I think) in the next version. Try it out when I upload it and let me know if it fixes this problem.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The plugin copies the extensions you have setup in the Videos section of MediaPortal configuration, so if you haven't specified .asf in it's configuration, it won't pick it up. You've got a good point though so I'm going to go ahead and add a field in the configuration that will be pre-populated with those extensions and allow you to add your own. As far as the uppercase problem, that's a pretty easy fix and I'll go ahead and take care of that now for the next version. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>First of all, keep in mind that the information in the first release was all pulled from allmusic, not last.fm. The next version will pull all information from last.fm. Unfortunately though the language is out of my control. With last.fm you may see language specific bios for groups that are native to that country (depending on what language the person who wrote the bio speaks, I guess). With allmusic, which is where your data was originally being pulled from, it was all english regardless. HOWEVER, last.fm is working on adding support for pulling down descriptions in a specific language. A last.fm developer has said he's going to implement it but hasn't yet. See this thread on last.fm's developer group:</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.last.fm/group/Last.fm+Web+Services/forum/21604/_/447072" target="_blank">Artist bio summary language ? Last.fm Web Services Discussions ? Last.fm</a></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>This is a ffmpeg problem. You could try downloading a more recent build of ffmpeg here: </p><p></p><p><a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=205275&package_id=248632" target="_blank">SourceForge.net: Files</a></p><p></p><p>But it may come down to a problem with the video codec of the specific video not being compatible with ffmpeg. If that doesn't work, use something like gspot and let me know what the actual codec is and I'll see if I can find another tool to use that would support it. I've got the same problem with a few of my poor quality/badly encoded videos, but I haven't had a chance to sit down and look at what codec was used to compress it. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I'm working on this.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I take it you're using one of the random builds I've attached to a thread previously? That button wasn't (and at the moment still isn't) fully implemented. It will be though. I just went ahead and put the button there when I was redoing the manager window. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Yeah, nothing is anchored yet to deal with resizing that window. That's one of the last things I'll do before I upload the next version, but I appreciate you reminding me about it.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I'm not sure what you mean here. Can you elaborate a little?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Customizable search patterns is something I'm working on. You can obviously understand the difficulty here since many videos have garbage after the second hyphen (like artist-song-xvid-, etc.). I have the same problem with videos from groups like Bone Thugs-N-Harmony. My temporary workaround was to just remove the hyphens from the name since it will still get matched correctly without them. How would you suggest I handle this? Would you want a report shown after scanning that allows you to check the parsed names of all videos that had more than one dash in it? Or would you rather choose during scanning? This is something I'm not sure on the best way to implement.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Yeah, I agree complete with this. Something I've got to finish up before this next release is the ability for you to have a "displayed name" that is different than the name that matches last.fm's. Just like with TV-Series, I have to have some type of unique identifies for every video that matches out data source. One thing you can do is just play that song in MediaPortal's music section and make sure you've setup the last.fm options for it. That will add it to last.fm's database making it visible to this plugin. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Definitely not good, but this was the first version so bear with me - we'll get up to 100% coverage pretty soon.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>On the todo list still.</p><p></p><p>Again, thanks for the great detailed feedback. You always give me plenty of things to look at <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" />. I appreciate it, though, as you have been a great help in pointing out problems I otherwise wouldn't have come across. Keep it coming.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jburnette, post: 310816, member: 24356"] Sorry guys, I've been out of the state because of work for the past week so I'm just now back to polishing up the next version. I hope to get it out this weekend as it is much improved. I'm almost positive this is a result of a bug that was limiting the actual adding to only go 1 level deep in a folder structure. This is fixed (I think) in the next version. Try it out when I upload it and let me know if it fixes this problem. The plugin copies the extensions you have setup in the Videos section of MediaPortal configuration, so if you haven't specified .asf in it's configuration, it won't pick it up. You've got a good point though so I'm going to go ahead and add a field in the configuration that will be pre-populated with those extensions and allow you to add your own. As far as the uppercase problem, that's a pretty easy fix and I'll go ahead and take care of that now for the next version. First of all, keep in mind that the information in the first release was all pulled from allmusic, not last.fm. The next version will pull all information from last.fm. Unfortunately though the language is out of my control. With last.fm you may see language specific bios for groups that are native to that country (depending on what language the person who wrote the bio speaks, I guess). With allmusic, which is where your data was originally being pulled from, it was all english regardless. HOWEVER, last.fm is working on adding support for pulling down descriptions in a specific language. A last.fm developer has said he's going to implement it but hasn't yet. See this thread on last.fm's developer group: [url=http://www.last.fm/group/Last.fm+Web+Services/forum/21604/_/447072]Artist bio summary language ? Last.fm Web Services Discussions ? Last.fm[/url] This is a ffmpeg problem. You could try downloading a more recent build of ffmpeg here: [url=http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=205275&package_id=248632]SourceForge.net: Files[/url] But it may come down to a problem with the video codec of the specific video not being compatible with ffmpeg. If that doesn't work, use something like gspot and let me know what the actual codec is and I'll see if I can find another tool to use that would support it. I've got the same problem with a few of my poor quality/badly encoded videos, but I haven't had a chance to sit down and look at what codec was used to compress it. I'm working on this. I take it you're using one of the random builds I've attached to a thread previously? That button wasn't (and at the moment still isn't) fully implemented. It will be though. I just went ahead and put the button there when I was redoing the manager window. Yeah, nothing is anchored yet to deal with resizing that window. That's one of the last things I'll do before I upload the next version, but I appreciate you reminding me about it. I'm not sure what you mean here. Can you elaborate a little? Customizable search patterns is something I'm working on. You can obviously understand the difficulty here since many videos have garbage after the second hyphen (like artist-song-xvid-, etc.). I have the same problem with videos from groups like Bone Thugs-N-Harmony. My temporary workaround was to just remove the hyphens from the name since it will still get matched correctly without them. How would you suggest I handle this? Would you want a report shown after scanning that allows you to check the parsed names of all videos that had more than one dash in it? Or would you rather choose during scanning? This is something I'm not sure on the best way to implement. Yeah, I agree complete with this. Something I've got to finish up before this next release is the ability for you to have a "displayed name" that is different than the name that matches last.fm's. Just like with TV-Series, I have to have some type of unique identifies for every video that matches out data source. One thing you can do is just play that song in MediaPortal's music section and make sure you've setup the last.fm options for it. That will add it to last.fm's database making it visible to this plugin. Definitely not good, but this was the first version so bear with me - we'll get up to 100% coverage pretty soon. On the todo list still. Again, thanks for the great detailed feedback. You always give me plenty of things to look at :D. I appreciate it, though, as you have been a great help in pointing out problems I otherwise wouldn't have come across. Keep it coming. [/QUOTE]
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