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2012-06-11, 18:29
(This post was last modified: 2012-06-14, 22:20 by olympia.)
It is not possible to make a really good quality scraper for music videos due to various reasons, however as we didn''t have a working music video scraper at all in the official repo, you can grab this from there from now on.
The scraper ONLY supports music video files with the naming convention: 'artist - track'.
-> Note the dash and the space between and after!!!
As being said it will not work perfectly, but I do hope it does the most...
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The scraper can't write directly those files, however you can use the export function of xbmc in order to achieve what you want.
Yes, it copes artist_-_songname convention, but the accuracy I think will be lower. I will need to look at this.
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hi i got problem
i have e:\musicvidoes and there are folders :
rihanna - where have you been and in there is file rihanna - where have you been.mp4
i set contet as music video e:\musicvideos and click ok or update library and nothing happens...
what do i wrong? i try also on e:\musicvideos and there in files mp4 but still nothing
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again thx for all your latest work, olympia. scraping really improved a hell lot in the last few months, those universal scrapers are just awesome.
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Not really. In my case all my files are tagged (using MediaMonkey4) in mp4 format, and I found a way to batch create nfo files from the tags in MediaMonkey. Then I found out that MediaMonkey tags using UTF-16 but the resulting nfo file isn't read by XBMC until I convert them into UTF-8 (which I found some freeware that does this). So it is a bit tedious but by using nfo files and folder.jpg files I got them into the XBMC library. I still have an issue with multi-entry tags/field (for example, album artist with multiples). I guess XBMC is looking for " / " in the nfo file so I need to do a global replace (MediaMonkey uses "; " as a separator).
I guess I could in MediaMonkey rename all my files and the last.fm scraper would at least try to get the info, but from what I've seen last.fm isn't that great a source (maybe I didn't give it a good tryout) so I am happy using the nfo file instead of scraping.
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Alright thanks for getting back to me.
I actually used to create my own nfos too, but thought the scrapper would be better.
Yet...
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i'm getting 'could not download information - unable to connect to remote server'... is it broken?
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Yes, this scraper only supports 'Artist - Title'. Shouldn't broke scraping though... I may look it this at some far point in the future.