(2013-02-20, 00:10)cw-kid Wrote: I used the browse button and added the background image against the Aswad artist. However looking on a second XBMC PC the background image is not showing on that PC like it is the first one.

Thanks

EDIT:

I found my Aswad background image on the first PC, it has been cached in to the folder:

C:\Users\Stuart\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\userdata\Thumbnails\e

So if you have multiple XBMC PCs, you have to upload the image to each of them ? Using the browse button in the Artist Information area ?

(2013-03-11, 17:48)dugan26 Wrote:

(2013-02-20, 00:10)cw-kid Wrote: I used the browse button and added the background image against the Aswad artist. However looking on a second XBMC PC the background image is not showing on that PC like it is the first one.

Thanks

EDIT:

I found my Aswad background image on the first PC, it has been cached in to the folder:

C:\Users\Stuart\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\userdata\Thumbnails\e

So if you have multiple XBMC PCs, you have to upload the image to each of them ? Using the browse button in the Artist Information area ?

Hello -
How did you browse to AppData inside XBMC? mine does not see it - did you have to do something special to see the folder? are you on Win7 ?

Never mind i found it - you need to browse to Home Folder etc ....

(2013-03-05, 00:27)n1md4 Wrote:

(2013-03-04, 23:31)aptalca Wrote:

(2012-11-14, 04:29)aptalca Wrote: Hi olympia,

I have a rather unusual issue. I am trying to add the artist Kitaro to the library. However, the dude is Japanese :-) and his name on MusicBrainz is a couple of Japanese characters. The sort name on MusicBrainz shows it as Kitaro, but the scraper doesn't retrieve anything.

Any ideas??

Thanks

EDIT: I also cannot enter the name manually as I don't have Japanese character input. Even if I did, I wouldn't even know which characters to put in really (other than maybe copy and paste :-)

Hi olympia,

I had asked this question a while back, but it got lost in the thread without an answer

I would like to bring it up again since I still don't have a solution for scraping Kitaro. I get a blank fanart, blank poster and no info

Here is the musicbrainz search, you can see that the actual name is japanese characters, but the sort name is "Kitaro": http://musicbrainz.org/search?query=kitaro&type=artist&method=indexed

The search/match score is 100%

Thanks

I'm not 100% sure how the scraper works, I think the artist must exist on Musicbrainz, you found that - check! But the scraping happens (I think) against theaudiodb.com , the record for 喜多郎 did not exist. I have created this for you (I was feeling generous - it might have been beer induced ; ) it should now scrape correctly - touch wood!

99% of the time, should an artist not scrape, check first it exists on theaudiodb.com , using the name that matches musicbrainz. If you have more, you are welcome to create accounts on these sites, and get a nice community collection of metadata

I hope that helps. Let me know if you need anything else.

(2013-03-05, 12:44)olympia Wrote:

(2013-03-04, 23:31)aptalca Wrote:

(2012-11-14, 04:29)aptalca Wrote: Hi olympia,

I have a rather unusual issue. I am trying to add the artist Kitaro to the library. However, the dude is Japanese :-) and his name on MusicBrainz is a couple of Japanese characters. The sort name on MusicBrainz shows it as Kitaro, but the scraper doesn't retrieve anything.

Any ideas??

Thanks

EDIT: I also cannot enter the name manually as I don't have Japanese character input. Even if I did, I wouldn't even know which characters to put in really (other than maybe copy and paste :-)

Hi olympia,

I had asked this question a while back, but it got lost in the thread without an answer

I would like to bring it up again since I still don't have a solution for scraping Kitaro. I get a blank fanart, blank poster and no info

Here is the musicbrainz search, you can see that the actual name is japanese characters, but the sort name is "Kitaro": http://musicbrainz.org/search?query=kitaro&type=artist&method=indexed

The search/match score is 100%

Thanks

you can always include the musicbrainz link to the artist in an artist.nfo to create a one to one link with the desired artist in case of such issues.

(2013-03-11, 16:20)dugan26 Wrote: in regards to my prev post - i have attached a log ... can someone take a look? let me know why i am not getting fanart for this ? I have a bunch of "Original Soundtrack" type material - i can seem to get any fanart for them.

Down the log you will see i choose an album from Madonna works fine - then soundtrack artist Infant Sorrow will not show fanart - although i have fanart.jpg in the folder

Many thanks in advance ...

http://pastebin.com/Dmzqba6B

Also not sure if im doing this right ... i tried to create a .nfo file - can someone confirm this is correct?

<artist>
<name>Infant Sorrow</name>
<fanart>T:\Infant Sorrow\fanart.jpg </fanart>
</artist>

One thing i just noticed - in the thumbnails\music\fanart folder: when i go to artist info (I button) get fanart browse to pic select it etc ... after that i see that pic in the fanart folder with a value of "ffffffff.tbn" ... im assuming this is no good?

(2013-03-13, 06:48)aptalca Wrote:

(2013-03-05, 00:27)n1md4 Wrote:

(2013-03-04, 23:31)aptalca Wrote: Hi olympia,

I had asked this question a while back, but it got lost in the thread without an answer

I would like to bring it up again since I still don't have a solution for scraping Kitaro. I get a blank fanart, blank poster and no info

Here is the musicbrainz search, you can see that the actual name is japanese characters, but the sort name is "Kitaro": http://musicbrainz.org/search?query=kitaro&type=artist&method=indexed

The search/match score is 100%

Thanks

I'm not 100% sure how the scraper works, I think the artist must exist on Musicbrainz, you found that - check! But the scraping happens (I think) against theaudiodb.com , the record for 喜多郎 did not exist. I have created this for you (I was feeling generous - it might have been beer induced ; ) it should now scrape correctly - touch wood!

99% of the time, should an artist not scrape, check first it exists on theaudiodb.com , using the name that matches musicbrainz. If you have more, you are welcome to create accounts on these sites, and get a nice community collection of metadata

I hope that helps. Let me know if you need anything else.

Unfortunately, still no go

I also added the specific albums to the audiodb.org and still no scrape of the artist (or the album for that matter) when I try a refresh on the album it keeps asking for the name of the album and then the name of the artist, over and over

Then I tried album.nfo with a link to the theaudiodb.org page of the album. It doesn't ask me to enter the album name or the artist name, but also does not scrape any info for the artist either

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(2013-03-05, 12:44)olympia Wrote:

(2013-03-04, 23:31)aptalca Wrote: Hi olympia,

I had asked this question a while back, but it got lost in the thread without an answer

I would like to bring it up again since I still don't have a solution for scraping Kitaro. I get a blank fanart, blank poster and no info

Here is the musicbrainz search, you can see that the actual name is japanese characters, but the sort name is "Kitaro": http://musicbrainz.org/search?query=kitaro&type=artist&method=indexed

The search/match score is 100%

Thanks

you can always include the musicbrainz link to the artist in an artist.nfo to create a one to one link with the desired artist in case of such issues.

olympia, I tried putting the artist.nfo with a link to the musicbrainz page, but did not make a difference. I do not have any artist folders. Everything is in album folders under music. I tried putting it in the album folders.

EDIT:

Just noticed that the wiki suggests artist.nfo assumes an artist/album structure
I moved the album folders into a "Kitaro" folder, and put the artist.nfo inside of it, voila it worked
Thanks a lot

(2013-03-14, 19:13)dugan26 Wrote: can you provide a sample of the txt inside your artist.nfo
greatly appreciated - having same issue similar

(2013-03-16, 11:21)Cryptic1 Wrote: Also, I can't figure out how to manually re-scrape with Aeon Nox. I see the menu to change the scraper, is that it? I know at one point I got a menu that let me select the artist results from a list, but I can't seem to find it again.

(2013-03-27, 18:37)mystiqu Wrote: Hi

Is there any way to create own .nfo files with information about album and artist, like you can do for a movie?
I've seen some talk about it but no examples.
I have created two files (album.nfo and artist.nfo) with the following information (but it does not seem to do the trick):

Regards,
Mikael