2015-06-23, 09:28
Hi, posted in this thread a couple of years ago and ultimately gave up. I love my media center though and these really need to be on it! My early experience in my re-attempt have been moderately better. But not without it's quirks. Things for people considering adding music videos to their setup to consider:
Even though you are scraping a music video, it is getting the info from the the corresponding album release. All of my successfully added videos have a 700x700 album art with it. That's all though, even thumbs of the video are scarce. I think the above post about having the actual albums scraped in Music library (and the artist artwork associated with them) will help fill in the gaps... backgrounds, artist bio.
Unfortunately, the MV scraper is nothing like other scrapers where it brings up a nice list of close matches to choose from. You have to have the exact name as it's stored at theadiodb.com (TADB). Actually, you can name the file anything you want then go to files view in kodi and re-scrape the video manually entering the correct name. But this is tedious when you have 100's of videos, so just go with flow and retain the "Artist - Song Title" format.
As a side note, you can name the folder you put each video in anything you like. For me I simply add a [YEAR] tag at the end so this is the structure:
..\3 Doors Down - Landing In London [2005]\3 Doors Down - Landing In London.mp4
Feel free to add [720p], or (ROCK)... whatever you like as the scraper only uses the file name.
And yes! Have your videos in separate folders. There are people with all videos in 1 folder that are happy with their setup. However, in the interest of not having to go through the entire process again say something should happen to your install/system, I prefer to **export my library to separate files and have all the info available for local re-scraping at any time.
**This will export entire library including Movies and TV so if you don't want those files physically added to their locations, don't do it.
You're not out of the woods yet. Ultimately you will have files that don't scrape properly. I read about an issue with the "apostrophe" which can sort of be confirmed by going to TADB and searching for a song title with an ' and look at the results page. It will say for instance:
Search Results for 'Baby Don\'t Cry (Keep Ya Head Up II)'
This particular 2pac song scraped fine so I am not sure if it's a real problem anymore, but I thought I'd share it for anyone trying to manually scrape their vids. This brings me to my first stumbling block which interestingly contains an apostrophe:
"4 Non Blondes - What's Up?"
I am suspecting the "question mark" is the culprit but I have tried to manually type in every permutation (including with and without the above \' method) possible and I can not get the video to scrape correctly. I can go the above stated route and manually create an .nfo so kodi will see it. But this won't help other people and their multitude of similar type vids so if anyone has any insight, please share so we can figure this out!
I will report more as I tinker... In the meantime, I encourage all music enthusiasts to join TADB and help add music video links from youtube and song information (usually from wiki).
Even though you are scraping a music video, it is getting the info from the the corresponding album release. All of my successfully added videos have a 700x700 album art with it. That's all though, even thumbs of the video are scarce. I think the above post about having the actual albums scraped in Music library (and the artist artwork associated with them) will help fill in the gaps... backgrounds, artist bio.
Unfortunately, the MV scraper is nothing like other scrapers where it brings up a nice list of close matches to choose from. You have to have the exact name as it's stored at theadiodb.com (TADB). Actually, you can name the file anything you want then go to files view in kodi and re-scrape the video manually entering the correct name. But this is tedious when you have 100's of videos, so just go with flow and retain the "Artist - Song Title" format.
As a side note, you can name the folder you put each video in anything you like. For me I simply add a [YEAR] tag at the end so this is the structure:
..\3 Doors Down - Landing In London [2005]\3 Doors Down - Landing In London.mp4
Feel free to add [720p], or (ROCK)... whatever you like as the scraper only uses the file name.
And yes! Have your videos in separate folders. There are people with all videos in 1 folder that are happy with their setup. However, in the interest of not having to go through the entire process again say something should happen to your install/system, I prefer to **export my library to separate files and have all the info available for local re-scraping at any time.
**This will export entire library including Movies and TV so if you don't want those files physically added to their locations, don't do it.
You're not out of the woods yet. Ultimately you will have files that don't scrape properly. I read about an issue with the "apostrophe" which can sort of be confirmed by going to TADB and searching for a song title with an ' and look at the results page. It will say for instance:
Search Results for 'Baby Don\'t Cry (Keep Ya Head Up II)'
This particular 2pac song scraped fine so I am not sure if it's a real problem anymore, but I thought I'd share it for anyone trying to manually scrape their vids. This brings me to my first stumbling block which interestingly contains an apostrophe:
"4 Non Blondes - What's Up?"
I am suspecting the "question mark" is the culprit but I have tried to manually type in every permutation (including with and without the above \' method) possible and I can not get the video to scrape correctly. I can go the above stated route and manually create an .nfo so kodi will see it. But this won't help other people and their multitude of similar type vids so if anyone has any insight, please share so we can figure this out!
I will report more as I tinker... In the meantime, I encourage all music enthusiasts to join TADB and help add music video links from youtube and song information (usually from wiki).
