Waffa Wrote:Here is an example when export music.db
and here goes the one for album aswell (album.nfo):
Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
<album>
<title>eMOTIVe</title>
<artist>A Perfect Circle</artist>
<genre>Alternative</genre>
<style>Alternative Pop/ Rock</style>
<style>Alternative Metal</style>
<style>Post-Grunge</style>
<mood>Gloomy</mood>
<mood>Confrontational</mood>
<mood>Passionate</mood>
<mood>Rousing</mood>
<mood>Melancholy</mood>
<mood>Cathartic</mood>
<mood>Brooding</mood>
<mood>Eerie</mood>
<mood>Theatrical</mood>
<mood>Campy</mood>
<mood>Intense</mood>
<mood>Somber</mood>
<mood>Nihilistic</mood>
<mood>Harsh</mood>
<mood>Fiery</mood>
<mood>Bleak</mood>
<theme>The Creative Side</theme>
<theme>Reflection</theme>
<theme>Regret</theme>
<review>When Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan covered Wings' "Silly Love Songs" as a guest vocalist for the Replicants, it was amusing and well thought out. When Tool covered "No Quarter" in concert it was intense, appropriate, and staggeringly good. And when Maynard continued the tradition with the beautiful recording of Failure's "The Nurse Who Loved Me," it became apparent that Maynard had a penchant for re-recording songs that were of high quality but not necessarily anthems. But then there's the notion of recording a whole album of covers, which immediately sends off red flags that the water may be running dry and the record label is thirsty for a new release. A Perfect Circle's album of covers, eMOTIVe, falls flat and fails to raise the bar set so high by the quality of their previous two releases. Turning some of popular music's most potent songs into a soundtrack ideal for background music at your local teen-angst mall-chain clothing store, A Perfect Circle work their way through 12 songs that would almost be unrecognizable in their current arrangement if one weren't familiar with the original versions of each song. John Lennon's somber, optimistic anthem for peace, "Imagine," is changed from its original major key to a funereal minor key dirge. Marvin Gaye's perfect "What's Going On" is turned into a horrible industrial track that would be permissible on a budget-line compilation but is simply unforgivable in its inclusion here. The same could apply to the butchering of Black Flag's "Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie" and a few other numbers. However, the album's sole moment of tranquility and its most effective moments lie in the band's treatment of Led Zeppelin's "When the Levee Breaks," and the disturbing a cappella of Joni Mitchell's "Fiddle and the Drum." eMOTIVe is a slight dent in the armor of Maynard's nearly flawless career as a frontman, and it's (hopefully) a mere detour for A Perfect Circle.</review>
<type>Explicit Lyrics</type>
<releasedate></releasedate>
<label>Virgin/EMI</label>
<type>Explicit Lyrics</type>
<thumbs><thumb>http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drg500/g515/g51566kz54x.jpg</thumb><thumb>http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drg500/g515/g51566kz54x.jpg</thumb></thumbs>
<path>K:\ALBEN\A Perfect Circle\Emotive\</path>
<rating>3</rating>
<year>2004</year>
<track>
<title>Annihilation</title>
<position>1</position>
<duration>02:13</duration>
</track>
<track>
<title>Imagine</title>
<position>2</position>
<duration>04:48</duration>
</track>
<track>
<title>(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding?</title>
<position>3</position>
<duration>05:03</duration>
</track>
<track>
<title>What's Going On</title>
<position>4</position>
<duration>04:53</duration>
</track>
<track>
<title>Passive</title>
<position>5</position>
<duration>04:10</duration>
</track>
<track>
<title>Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie</title>
<position>6</position>
<duration>02:18</duration>
</track>
<track>
<title>People Are People</title>
<position>7</position>
<duration>03:43</duration>
</track>
<track>
<title>Freedom of Choice</title>
<position>8</position>
<duration>02:59</duration>
</track>
<track>
<title>Let's Have a War</title>
<position>9</position>
<duration>03:28</duration>
</track>
<track>
<title>Counting Bodies Like Sheep to the Rhythm of the War Drums</title>
<position>10</position>
<duration>05:36</duration>
</track>
<track>
<title>When the Levee Breaks</title>
<position>11</position>
<duration>05:55</duration>
</track>
<track>
<title>Fiddle and the Drum</title>
<position>12</position>
<duration>03:06</duration>
</track>
</album>
note the several mood entries instead of having <mood>Blah/Blubb/bleeeh/wibble..</mood>
alongside this we can have album art, artist picture, fanart for artists and also fanart for albums. see also
xbmc wiki for a complete list of xml tags in artist.nfo and album.nfo.
filenames: pretty basic.
fanart: fanart.jpg (one in artist, one in album dir)
artist thumb: folder.jpg in artist dir
album thumb: folder.jpg in album dir or embedded cover in mp3 (+other media/codecs that support embedding of pictures into it?).
not to mention several modding attempts to enhance music library views more like flagging for labels (similar to studio tagging in video), codecs and genres. also enhancing appears as there are genre thumbs and genre fanarts available, too (though that is not directly related to the artists or the albums)
i'd say that big amount of additional possibilities to describe your music further and enhance the "wow" factor really
needs a convenient gui to handle that data, especially when there is only minimal information being scraped from the given scrapers
maybe i do not understand you here..
