[Nazgulled]

I don't know if I'm doing something or wrong or if the sites supported by the default scrappers are crap :/ (the sites, not the scrappers)

I tried all of them and it seems my music library is so incomplete. I'm talking about artists images and fanart. I already have all the covers for my albums in good quality. But I have no fanart nor good quality artist thumbs.

Which scrapper do you guys use for music? I suppose none of the sites supported by the default scrappers have proper support for fanart but they have for the artists thumb. However, most of the artists on my database don't have a picture (although the site has) and the ones that have it, are of very low and small resolution.

So, what do you guys use for music then?

[Ninjamawwe]

I use the allmusic scraper which has good and consistent artist/album info. As for the thumbnails I haven't found a good site, so I did all of them myself (folder.jpg in a /path/artist/album directory setup). Perhaps the owner of the home theater backdrops site would consider adding hi-res artist thumbs in addition to fanart. That site is already scrapable for fanart, so adding scraping of artist thumbs should be relatively straightforward (I think).

[onesojourner]

I have the same problem with my music. I never use the library mode in music because it never scrapes it right.

[Nazgulled]

@Ninjamawwe
I don't care about the albumart, that I prefer to do manually and I already have covers for all my albums. I'm only talking about artist thumbs and fanart, none of the scrappers seem to do a good job at it. I was just wondering if there was any other, or any other way for music...

[tslayer]

It's a "SCRAPER", not a "SCRAPPER".

Sorry to correct you...

[smcnally75]

It's a "SCRAPER", not a "SCRAPPER".

Sorry to correct you...

LOL! I think it may be a location thing...I've noticed a lot of people calling them "Scrappers" lately.

[Nazgulled]

Not really, I'm Portuguese, I don't even know a word to translate that into I just thought it was "scrapper".

[smcnally75]

Not really, I'm Portuguese, I don't even know a word to translate that into I just thought it was "scrapper".

It means to scrape information off a website. (Like to scrape paint off of wood before re-painting it)

[nuzecast]

I use the allmusic scraper which has good and consistent artist/album info. As for the thumbnails I haven't found a good site, so I did all of them myself (folder.jpg in a /path/artist/album directory setup). Perhaps the owner of the home theater backdrops site would consider adding hi-res artist thumbs in addition to fanart. That site is already scrapable for fanart, so adding scraping of artist thumbs should be relatively straightforward (I think).

I've added a new category for square artist thumbs. 1080 x 1080 max.

I consolidated game backdrops and weather/photo backdrops under a Misc category as they are not used much.

Nothing will scrape this new category but since there aren't any images to scrape yet I guess that's OK

[Arkon11]

Yeah, if you put a "folder.jpg" in the root directory of an artist that will show up as the artist thumb/image. I found that a 600x600 image works fine. You could probably even get away with a 500x500.

[Nazgulled]

It means to scrape information off a website. (Like to scrape paint off of wood before re-painting it)

I know what it means, what I meant is that I don't know a Portuguese word that could translate to "scraper". The ones I could think of, don't make much sense in the context of "retrieving info off a website". But never mind about that...

@Arkon11
I wish the scraper could do that instead I don't really care for the artists thumbs to waste time with them but it would be nice to have everything cataloged. For now, I just disabled artists info...

[Arkon11]

I'm suprising a musicdb (like the moviedb and the tvdb) hasn't sprung up yet. I know I'd be more than willing to contribute if given the chance.

[spiff]

and i would gladly do the xbmc side

[TeknoJnky]

Like http://musicbrainz.org ?

[spiff]

musicbrainz does not hold much info, none at all about artist and just the basics about albums (which you get from tags anyways)