[Music Scraper] An alternative, like ex. discogs.com, musicbrainz.org, or amazon.com?

**Gamester17** · 2008-10-05 15:12

Wikipedia.org does not use a unified standard which is a must for a scraper to work.

amazon.com could work as a source as they use a standard for all their pages.

Nod

xb2iris · 2008-10-05 16:29

cool... cool... amazon is pretty wicked as well... by the way, you look a lot like fred durst... hmmm...

Jeroen · 2008-10-05 17:16

http://www.discogs.com/
I use a plugin for this site in the Foobar mediaplayer on my desktop pc, it literally finds everything I throw at it.

steve1977 · 2008-10-06 19:48

Thanks for all your replies. Both last.fm and amazon.com work well also in China. Would be awesome if the world of XBMC would see on of these scrapers in the future!!!

Many thanks again and best regards!!!

**theuni** · 2008-10-06 23:48

There's also an API for the site, maybe worth looking at:

http://www.discogs.com/help/api

TheUni

**Gamester17** · 2008-10-13 16:13

rwparris2 Wrote:I'm started working on a Last.FM Scraper

Is it true that LastFM limit your query to one per second? If so then lookup with LastFM would take a very long time if you have a lot of songs.

TeknoJnky Wrote:
Quote:All web services here are for non-commercial use only under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike License. If you want to use these services in a commercial context you must contact partners at last dot fm first to get a seperate license.

You can query last.fm 1 per second, averaged over an hour. Which is 3600 requests per hour. Normally your only making one request every 3 to 6 minutes (song length).

The xml feeds and other info @ http://www.audioscrobbler.net/data/webservices/

Though the cool thing about LastFM is that you could also grab additional information such as information about and picture of the artist, though for that you might have to request XBMC's skinning-engine to be extended for first, so tthat is off-topic for this thread.

**spiff** · 2008-10-13 16:32

seeing we never grab info for songs online (apart from the track listing of an album), that really is not an issue

Kyusaku · 2008-10-14 01:32

I would love a Last.fm scraper, Allmusic keeps scraping the wrong artist info. Because actually a good amount of my collection are Japanese indie bands.(most of which have Last.fm listings. )

**Gamester17** · 2008-10-15 18:29

LastFM scrapers in development if progress, see here if you like to help:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=38379
and
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=39028

Wink

azido · 2008-12-05 13:16

theuni Wrote:There's also an API for the site, maybe worth looking at:

http://www.discogs.com/help/api

TheUni

it would be extremely cool to use discogs as a scraping source. as far as i can see they've have a standarized output and hellofalot of informations.

man i wish i could be skilled enough to write a scraper for it. allmusic keeps adding the complete wrong informations to my albums since it may choose a "hit" by the first matching target it sees. at least when doing autoupdate for the music database.

xb2iris Skilled Skinner Posts: 586 Joined: Jun 2008 Reputation: 0 Location: London, UK	2008-10-05 16:29 Post: #12 cool... cool... amazon is pretty wicked as well... by the way, you look a lot like fred durst... hmmm...
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Jeroen Skilled Skinner Posts: 1,882 Joined: Feb 2008 Reputation: 4 Location: The Netherlands	2008-10-05 17:16 Post: #13 http://www.discogs.com/ I use a plugin for this site in the Foobar mediaplayer on my desktop pc, it literally finds everything I throw at it. reFocus repo reFocus GitHub
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theuni Team-XBMC Communication Manager Posts: 1,090 Joined: Oct 2007 Reputation: 2 Location: Atlanta, Ga, USA	2008-10-06 23:48 Post: #15 There's also an API for the site, maybe worth looking at: http://www.discogs.com/help/api TheUni
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spiff Grumpy Bastard Developer Posts: 12,187 Joined: Nov 2003 Reputation: 82	2008-10-13 16:32 Post: #17 seeing we never grab info for songs online (apart from the track listing of an album), that really is not an issue Always read the XBMC online-manual, FAQ and search the forum before posting. Do not e-mail XBMC-Team members directly asking for support. Read/follow the forum rules. For troubleshooting and bug reporting please make sure you read this first.
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Kyusaku Junior Member Posts: 10 Joined: Oct 2008 Reputation: 0	2008-10-14 01:32 Post: #18 I would love a Last.fm scraper, Allmusic keeps scraping the wrong artist info. Because actually a good amount of my collection are Japanese indie bands.(most of which have Last.fm listings. )
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