Dammit.....AllMusic.com (AMG) seems to have stopped scrapers..

henrikyo · 2012-05-01 19:49

does this work with 12.0 alpha

i didnt have a xbmc addon in my application support, but it was inside applications/xbmc/resources/addons etc

when i update now, i get no info at all, its just blank and the "blabblablabla cant get review is gone" but now its nothing there

tried everything, doesnt seem to work with 12.0 alpha. FACK :/

**olympia** · 2012-05-02 14:08

It does.

henrikyo · 2012-05-02 14:23

Well what am i doing wring, download the file/copy everything, go instead textedit, rename file allmusic

changed from rtf to .xml

Copy it it inside applications/xbmc/resources/addons/allmusic common etc

When i scan/refresh i got no info

henrikyo · 2012-05-03 10:11

if someone could upload their file and tell me (osx side) where i have to put it, as i dont have a folder name allmusic common etc inside /users/library/application support/xbmc/addons

and i have put inside applications/xbmc/resources/addons/allmusic common

fredphoesh · 2012-05-04 16:22

(2012-05-03 10:11)henrikyo Wrote: if someone could upload their file and tell me (osx side) where i have to put it, as i dont have a folder name allmusic common etc inside /users/library/application support/xbmc/addons

and i have put inside applications/xbmc/resources/addons/allmusic common

Hi
in linux its at
/usr/share/xbmc/addons/metadata.artists.allmusic.com
which is near the root of the system... so not within your user profile if you know what i mean...

Thanks,
Mark.

tungmeister · 2012-05-08 14:57

I've applied the update to the scraper but now I'm unable to scan in new music with this coming up in the log:

13:55:22 T:4412 ERROR: ADDON::CScraper::Run: Unable to parse web site

I've defiantly copied it in correctly so there must be an issue with the code?

EDIT: Ignore me it's working now Confused

krish_2k4 · 2012-05-12 15:46

thank you for the workaround! sad it needs such a hack to get a review but oh well, where there's a will there's a way!

**DDDamian** · 2012-05-12 16:18

Just FYI, being on the Team now I can no longer officially support my "friends" patch, but most of you seem to be helping each other, which is great Smile

JUICESIX90 · 2012-05-13 03:54

(2012-04-02 15:22)bossanova808 Wrote: For openelec users, I don't think a working method has been posted...the advice in previous posts is incomplete.

You must first copy the addons from the read-only system section:
/usr/share/xbmc/addons/metadata.albums.allmusic.com
/usr/share/xbmc/addons/metadata.artists.allmusic.com
/usr/share/xbmc/addons/metadata.common.allmusic.com

..to

/storage/.xbmc/addons

..and THEN copy in the file from page 3 on this thread to this folder:

/storage/.xbmc/addons/metadata.common.allmusic.com

(this will get xbmc to first use the local copies rather than the system level addons, and then you add teh appropriate changed files).

I can confirm the above method works with Openelec nightlies and I am getting album reviews, artist info, pictures etc.

Worked perfectly, thanks! Wink

keiron99 · 2012-05-17 21:39

I'm on ATV but really struggling with issues others have experienced here with failures to scrape correctly.

So I started again : removed the sources, then cleaned the library (through the interface on ATV2), then added the source again.

I set the Scraper default in settings to FreeBase for Artist and Album.

Then I scanned the whole library again.

However I am suffering exactly the same problem as before. The artists are scanned and the info appended but the albums are not scanned. In fact, when I open the Info for any individual album there is no scraper set, even though it is clearly set withing the Settings.

What this means is the only way to scan an album's details is to go in and change the settings for each individual album and Refresh it individually - totally unrealistic!

Very frustrating! Any ideas?

olympia Team-XBMC Member Posts: 2,381 Joined: May 2008 Reputation: 30	2012-05-02 14:08 Post: #102 It does. ASUS P5N7A-VM - Intel C2D E7300 - 2GB RAM - Silverstone GD02 Black - MS MCE Remote - Patriot Warp 32GB SSD Drive
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tungmeister Fan Posts: 415 Joined: Jan 2009 Reputation: 8 Location: Sheffield, UK	2012-05-08 14:57 Post: #106 I've applied the update to the scraper but now I'm unable to scan in new music with this coming up in the log: 13:55:22 T:4412 ERROR: ADDON::CScraper::Run: Unable to parse web site I've defiantly copied it in correctly so there must be an issue with the code? EDIT: Ignore me it's working now (This post was last modified: 2012-05-08 16:27 by tungmeister.)
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krish_2k4 Fan Posts: 578 Joined: Aug 2010 Reputation: 9	2012-05-12 15:46 Post: #107 thank you for the workaround! sad it needs such a hack to get a review but oh well, where there's a will there's a way!
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