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Thanks a lot vdrfan for the info. It's quite simple to addon-ify it.
Do you know if it's possible to link several scrapers together? eg if Yahoo Music doesnt' return anything, try last.fm? But it probably shouldn't be the job of the addon to do that anyway, it's more XBMC that should be able to try several scrapers if one doesn't find anything (or enough info).
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Right, currently there's no such functionality besides a very basic language based fallback when it comes to url nfo scraping. You would have to do it all within one addon.
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Looks like you need to encode the artist and track string passed to the url.
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1. a music-video can basically handle all the video info tags movies do + track, track and artist. (depends on the skin which information are shown)
2. caused by the encode you added as the strings are also used as the title.
3. should work as a normal fanart that's fetched based on the artist string. The artist fanart from music library are not used at this point (afaik).
4. depends on the skin. Confluence should show a music-video sub menu on the videos home item.
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Concerning #3 from previous post, it indeed looks like XBMC doesn't run the artist and album addons for music videos. But if that info is available (ie retrieved previously through the music), it will be available for the music videos (at least backdrop and artist image).
I don't know how the code is done, but shouldn't it be quite simple to run the artist and album addons for the music videos also? Should I add it to the bug tracker (looks like no one asked for that yet)?
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Great work. Works much better than the old scrapers.