Gotham and Music Video Changes?
#1
I have been actively looking at all the cool features coming up in Gotham, but haven't seen any mention of changes to the way Music Videos/Concerts are handled.

I do appreciate the changes to the handling of Music in Gotham using Musicbrainz, and the issues that it is causing as seen in the post "Musicbrainz-chaos"...
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=184514

I myself have brought up a few threads regarding the problems with Music Videos, and some solutions/workarounds...
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=163814
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=164550
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=164579

So I was curious if there was any kind of improvement with the Music Videos/Concerts in Gotham?

If your looking for Ideas (probably too late for Gotham, but maybe the next release), I still believe that Music Videos should be hooked into the Music Library, as they would share the same Artist, Album, Fanart, etc.
So if you had the Song Katy Perry - Roar.mp3 (fully tagged with Musicbrainz), and you had the Music Video of Katy Perry - Roar.mp4 (or MKV, MPG, Avi, etc), that they could share all the Artist posters, Fanart, Album Art, Bio, etc.

With this kind of setup, you could probably combine the separate folders, so instead of Music, and Music Videos it would look something like this...
D:\Music\Katy Perry\2013 - Prism\"all music stored here (.mp3, .flc, .ape, etc)"
D:\Music\Katy Perry\2013 - Prism\extrafanart\
D:\Music\Katy Perry\2013 - Prism\Music Videos\"associated with this album"
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#2
I believe that TheAudioDB.com is the new default metadata scraper for Music Videos in Gotham, and that alone is a huge improvement.

Though I wish that someone wrote a scrapers for IMVDb / IMVDb.com (The Internet Music Video Database) and mvdbase / mvdbase.com (the music video database) for Music Videos in XBMC!

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=165847
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=29568
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=92691

Not sure if any other Music Video specific released features was added to XBMC for Gotham?
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#3
i think if you are looking some ideas , then you need to still believe that music videos, should be hooked into music library . and you have the music video of katy perry. that also could share all the actors posters , art , bio , and album etc.
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#4
Agree with all earlier mentions that music videos should be part of the music library (exactly how it is treated in itunes).

Sometimes, an album includes songs and videos and these should remain part of the same album. Also, these albums actually have MBIDs and are just one of the same album (no matter whether an MP3 song or an MP4 video). Some others are stand-alone music videos and I agree with opening post that they also need to be kept separate.

My suggestion would be to fully integrate music and musicvideos (if itunes can do it, so can we :-) Scraping order would be the following:
1) Tags (MP4s and M4Vs have tags in same ways as MP3s have)
2) MBIDs (some videos have them)
3) Theaudiodb (if no tags and no MBIDs available)


Thanks in advance for further improving the music video function, which for me is one of the long-waiting features!!!
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