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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jburnette" data-source="post: 320157" data-attributes="member: 24356">Sorry guys, I've been away with work and have recently started back into college so I've been a bit busy.  I know I had promised a new release a while back so I'm going to try to get that finished up ASAP as it should solve pretty much all of the problems people have been having (hopefully).Yeah, I will definitely in the future start using the directory structure to better organize the videos.  I really don't like the idea of automatically adding ANY video that can not be matched against the last.fm database.  The reason is that it will inevitably lead to multiple entries for the same artist when multiple videos have the same artist named differently (for example, "The Rolling Stones" and "Rolling Stones").  With last.fm any artist who is at least popular enough to have a video should definitely be in their database.  One of the problems right now is that my database functions were written based on allmusic.com's way of doing things which was very confining.  With last.fm I now have a unique id for every artist.  I still have to change a lot of things to make it so that it's more flexible as far as you being able to change more of the stored info.  I'm going to add the ability to preview how videos will be parsed like you suggested and preview what information is being taken from the filename itself and the directory structure.  I'm just going to use a simple grid view like TVSeries does for it's parsing test.  That should allow you to fix the parsed video names that are currently always wrong when an artist has a dash in their name.  It will also allow you to add/change information like year or artist before you even scan.  I'll also add the ability to see videos currently in your database the same way so it should be quicker to make changes and add information.You're right that it's constricting right now since it doesn't use the folder structure which would allow a really easy way to have things like year, genre, tags, etc added based on what folder you drop a video in later on so I'm going to work on adding thay.  Being able to filter based on this information will be easy once it's actually stored in the database.The biggest problem is that there is absolutely no GOOD data source that I can find to get information about just music videos and artists themselves.  The biggest flaw with last.fm is that they have so many bad artist names because of the mass number of mp3s scrobbled with bad ID3 tags.  Something like thetvdb or themoviedb is definitely needed for music, especially if it would allow you to enter information specifically about videos and upload a good relevant thumb for each video.  I'd definitely be interested in helping out if someone decided to create something like that.Could you post your Mediaportal.log after this happens so I can see what's happening?  I'm just using MediaPortal's built in video player so I'm not sure how this plugin is causing that but I'd like to find out.</blockquote>

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