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As I posted FYI information on the MeediOS forum though I should post it here too:

Team-XBMC have plans (in the not so soon future) to also implement the same scraper API and similar XML-files for music (and other audio files) metadata scraping of the internet, and later maybe even when other type of metadata scraping is needed (like weather-forecasts, and XMLTV EPG TV-Guide scraping, etc.), in order to if possible make it a unified scraper API throughout a media center application like XBMC. Again, that is not on the 'soon future' roadmap as many other things have a higher priority and there are only so many hours in a day, ...so far only the concept theory have been written down on paper then we have put it aside for now.

By the way, I think that the optimal solution would be if our projects someday could come to a compromise to make each individual XML scraper 100% compatible so they could be used in each media center application without modifications, that way maybe in the future we could start a new common project (like on sourceforge.net or code.google.com) where we could host and maintain these "HTPC XML scrapers", ...it should then be simple to make each media center application automatically check and download updated scrapers from that common project, which IMHO would be very user-friendly.

<blockquote data-quote="Gamester17" data-source="post: 237967" data-attributes="member: 10298">As I posted FYI information on the MeediOS forum though I should post it here too:Team-XBMC have plans (in the not so soon future) to also implement the same scraper API and similar XML-files for music (and other audio files) metadata scraping of the internet, and later maybe even when other type of metadata scraping is needed (like weather-forecasts, and XMLTV EPG TV-Guide scraping, etc.), in order to if possible make it a unified scraper API throughout a media center application like XBMC. Again, that is not on the 'soon future' roadmap as many other things have a higher priority and there are only so many hours in a day, ...so far only the concept theory have been written down on paper then we have put it aside for now.By the way, I think that the optimal solution would be if our projects someday could come to a compromise to make each individual XML scraper 100% compatible so they could be used in each media center application without modifications, that way maybe in the future we could start a new common project (like on sourceforge.net or code.google.com) where we could host and maintain these &quot;HTPC XML scrapers&quot;, ...it should then be simple to make each media center application automatically check and download updated scrapers from that common project, which IMHO would be very user-friendly.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Gamester17, post: 237967, member: 10298"] As I posted FYI information on the MeediOS forum though I should post it here too: Team-XBMC have plans (in the not so soon future) to also implement the same scraper API and similar XML-files for music (and other audio files) metadata scraping of the internet, and later maybe even when other type of metadata scraping is needed (like weather-forecasts, and XMLTV EPG TV-Guide scraping, etc.), in order to if possible make it a unified scraper API throughout a media center application like XBMC. Again, that is not on the 'soon future' roadmap as many other things have a higher priority and there are only so many hours in a day, ...so far only the concept theory have been written down on paper then we have put it aside for now. By the way, I think that the optimal solution would be if our projects someday could come to a compromise to make each individual XML scraper 100% compatible so they could be used in each media center application without modifications, that way maybe in the future we could start a new common project (like on sourceforge.net or code.google.com) where we could host and maintain these "HTPC XML scrapers", ...it should then be simple to make each media center application automatically check and download updated scrapers from that common project, which IMHO would be very user-friendly. [/QUOTE]