[locust]

Hey all, I am trying to get album information for some of my CD's, the directories and filenames are clearly legible and not in any weird formatting, yet when I highlight the folder and choose "Album Information" it does NOTHING at all. Same with pressing the "I" key. No box in the top right pops up, it doesn't TRY to do anything at all it seems. Even more perplexing is that the log doesn't even show me trying to get album information at all!

http://pastebin.ca/1677578 I tried to get information for 4 different albums before i tried the 'scan to library' option and the log doesn't even MENTION it.. Something is seriously screwed up with the debug logging because it's not mentioning any of the 4 albums I tried to get info for. (Divine Intervention, God Hates us All, Hell Awaits, and South of Heaven)

And pressing "I" on the individual tracknames only pulls ID3 info, it doesnt offer to scrape any information and or look for artwork.. What is going on?


I am using alpha2.

please help

thanks

[srfoster]

Hi,
I have what sounds like the same problem. Also running Alpha2 version, on windows. Network connections are working as my video collection has been correctly tagged.
Is there any debug information required that would help isolate the root cause?

thanks
Steve

[joebrady]

I did see a mention of one of them.

Code:

09:32:30 T:2004 M:2420420608    INFO: Music scan has started... Enabling tag reading, and remote thumbs
09:32:30 T:2624 M:2420027392   DEBUG: thread start, auto delete: 0
09:32:30 T:2624 M:2420019200   DEBUG: MUSIC_INFO::CMusicInfoScanner::Process - Starting scan
09:32:30 T:3720 M:2420011008   DEBUG: thread start, auto delete: 0
09:32:30 T:2624 M:2418286592   DEBUG: MUSIC_INFO::CMusicInfoScanner::DoScan Scanning dir 'smb://tower/audio/ROCK/Slayer/Slayer-Hell_Awaits-1985-LOSSLESS-FLAC/' as not in the database
09:32:30 T:3720 M:2418143232   DEBUG: Thread 3720 terminating
09:32:31 T:3824 M:2418298880   DEBUG: Thread 3824 terminating (autodelete)
09:32:31 T:2624 M:2418302976   DEBUG: MUSIC_INFO::CMusicInfoScanner::GetArtistArtwork looking for fanart for artist Slayer in folder smb://tower/audio/ROCK/Slayer/
09:32:31 T:2624 M:2418302976   DEBUG: MUSIC_INFO::CMusicInfoScanner::GetArtistArtwork no local fanart found for artist Slayer
09:32:31 T:2004 M:2418290688    INFO: XCURL::DllLibCurlGlobal::CheckIdle - Closing session to http://xoap.weather.com (easy=063776C0, multi=024DF0F0)
09:32:31 T:2624 M:2418266112   DEBUG: MUSIC_INFO::CMusicInfoScanner::DoScan Scanning dir 'smb://tower/audio/ROCK/Slayer/Slayer-Hell_Awaits-1985-LOSSLESS-FLAC/[COMPLETE 8F]/' as not in the database
09:32:31 T:2624 M:2418290688   DEBUG: MUSIC_INFO::CMusicInfoScanner::Process - Finished scan
09:32:31 T:2624 M:2418290688  NOTICE: My Music: Scanning for music info using worker thread, operation took 00:00
09:32:31 T:2624 M:2418290688    INFO: Music scan was stopped or finished ... restoring FindRemoteThumbs

Make sure you read this.http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=Music_Library

and the best file structure would look like this

/Music/Artist/Album/songs

No need to keep your music in a genre folder, as the library will let you sort by that.

[srfoster]

I have all my music structured as suggested - from using squeezecenter. (nearly) All my files are flacs and are well tagged.

Here is a snippet of my log, with debug turned on. Prior to this I had just run clean library from settings/music/library page

18:08:14 T:5252 M:1010544640 DEBUG: MUSIC_INFO::CMusicInfoScanner:oScan Skipping dir 'smb://NAS/Qmultimedia/A Flock of Seagulls/' due to no change
18:08:14 T:5252 M:1010569216 DEBUG: MUSIC_INFO::CMusicInfoScanner:oScan Skipping dir 'smb://NAS/Qmultimedia/A Flock of Seagulls/Wishing/' due to no change
18:08:14 T:5252 M:1010515968 DEBUG: MUSIC_INFO::CMusicInfoScanner:oScan Skipping dir 'smb://NAS/Qmultimedia/ABBA/' due to no change
18:08:15 T:5252 M:1010597888 DEBUG: MUSIC_INFO::CMusicInfoScanner:oScan Skipping dir 'smb://NAS/Qmultimedia/ABBA/Gold [Greatest Hits]/' due to no change


Then when its gets to my various rtist directory behaviour is slightly different...
18:08:54 T:5252 M:1014398976 DEBUG: MUSIC_INFO::CMusicInfoScanner:oScan Scanning dir 'smb://NAS/Qmultimedia/Various/Woman to Woman/' as not in the database
18:08:57 T:5240 M:1014034432 DEBUG: thread start, auto delete: 0
18:08:57 T:5240 M:1014026240 DEBUG: MUSIC_GRABBER::CMusicInfoScraper::FindArtistinfo: Searching for 'Anchorage' using Discogs scraper (file: 'discogs.xml', content: 'albums', language: 'en', date: '2009-09-16', framework: '1.1')
18:08:57 T:5240 M:1013960704 DEBUG: FileCurl::Open(057CD358) http://www.discogs.com/search?type=artists&q="Anchorage"&btn=Search
18:08:57 T:5240 M:1013960704 INFO: XCURL:llLibCurlGlobal::easy_aquire - Created session to http://www.discogs.com
18:08:57 T:5240 M:1013637120 DEBUG: XFILE::CFileCurl::CReadState::FillBuffer: curl failed with code 52
18:08:57 T:5240 M:1013637120 ERROR: CFileCurl::CReadState::Open, didn't get any data from stream.
18:08:57 T:5240 M:1013637120 DEBUG: FileCurl::Close(057CD358) http://www.discogs.com/search?type=artists&q="Anchorage"&btn=Search
18:08:57 T:5240 M:1013637120 ERROR: MUSIC_GRABBER::CMusicInfoScraper::FindArtistinfo: Unable to retrieve web site
18:08:57 T:5240 M:1013727232 DEBUG: Thread 5240 terminating


this is repeated for albums and tracks respectively.

Any suggestions please?

thanks
Steve

[jmarshall]

discogs is currently rejecting requests from XBMC.

Use a different scraper.

[srfoster]

ok, thanks - I'll try one of the other scrapers.

But that doesn't answer all the non-various-artist albums that were listed as "skipping..." are listed as such - they weren't even looked up. Any suggestions as to why they are skipped as I had just run the clean library utility and there is/was no artist information in my database?

Steve