Music Videos using Music Scrapers?

Suven Wrote:Which infos should musicvideos have?

im not sure what info others actually use.
personally all i bother with are these... and stream details when im editing my Nfos for music videos.
<title></title>
<year></year>
<album></album>
<outline></outline>
<runtime></runtime>
<mpaa></mpaa>
<director></director>
<premiered></premiered>
<aired></aired>
<studio></studio>
<artist></artist>

Suven Wrote:What kind of fanarts do you use? Artist-Fanarts and musicVideo-Posters?

the way im setting it up may not be proper.
i have all my music videos in the same folder
Music Videos/
artist-song name.mp4
artist-song name.nfo
artist-song name-fanart.jpg

same format and folder for all videos.
however what im finding is that the first fanart for each artist listed in alphabetical order is used for all videos by that artist in library mode.
once they are queued into a playlist they show each individual fanart for various different tracks on the now playing list but in the library they only use the first one in the list by an artist.

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for mass image downloading...obviously you have to find websites that have alot of images you can use.
http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptdirprn.asp
to create a list of all my music videos...which are all re-encoded as mp4s using the same codecs so i can use the same stream info in my Nfos.
after that i then edited the list of music video files i created with "directory printer" with the text replace functions in notepad to remove all the stuff i dont need and to add "-fanart.jpg" tag to the end of each line.
i found a program that would rename all my fan art based off this text based list but the trial version only allowed you to test it out on 10 files...which worked but i wasnt willing to trust creator with my credit card info so ive been editing them by hand off this list.
to create basic nfos i used a program i found in this link http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=36167
which created and filled in nfo info for artist and track title and then i used
a mass text editor to add the rest of the info to the Nfos.

that is the same file structure i use.
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=36167 will work to get basic nfo files but you may need to do some editing to add in stuff like album name and year or whatever.

Many, many thanks! You made my day & week

strange, without a nfo xmbc here doesn't even enable the menu music vids

When I add some info in the nfo, then using the song name I can play it but if browsing using the artist name, it doesn't list the file under the artist name...

very poorly implemented the music vid function on xbmc

acidbaby Wrote:In the last version of XBMC you could add a folder of videos as a Music Video source and not use a scraper at all. They would all show up in a list by file name and still have all of the Music video type functionality.

Is there a way to force Dharma to not use a scraper and just make a list of the contents like it did previously?

Is it possible to create a scraper that creates nfo just from the file name to mimc the no scrapper method or do they require a web service?

well, it doesn't work like that in real life I'm afraid

well I've tried one mtv alternative scrapper but nothing so far, quite frustrating ;/

Here is a thread that help you create NFO's out of the file names. perhaps it can help?!

I fully agree there is no good scraper so I found this one to be, for me, the best alternative...

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=63794&page=2

I have quite a few concert videos (full length). I have tagged them and created "movie.nfo" files for each (in their own folders). I can add them to my library, but they get added to my "Movies".
What I would like to do is have 2 groups of Movies on my Home page using "genres". I would like to have Concerts (aka Music Videos), and Movies (everything except Music Videos genre).

Is it possible to exclude one genre?

Any ideas?

Update: I found a way to do what I want using "Smart Playlists". I added my concerts to my library, then created a Smart Playlist for my Movies and one for my Concerts using the "path" to each folder (D:\Movies and M:\Concerts). Then I hid the main Movie panel and added custom panels for my Movies Playlist and Concerts Playlist. Works like a charm!

Somebody made an nfo creator script (to be ran outside of xbmc0 that could search through all your music and if the files are named correctly it would extract the band name and song name. It isn't an ideal solution but could save you some time, I know I use it since I listen to Japanese and Korean stuff so the scrapers don't pick a single thing up. With some simple modifications you could make it take more out of the filename as long as your naming convention is always the same.

I could post it here if anybody is interested but I can't remember the original author so I can't credit them. Otherwise I'm sure I got it from these forums so do searching.

musera Wrote:Somebody made an nfo creator script (to be ran outside of xbmc0 that could search through all your music and if the files are named correctly it would extract the band name and song name. It isn't an ideal solution but could save you some time, I know I use it since I listen to Japanese and Korean stuff so the scrapers don't pick a single thing up. With some simple modifications you could make it take more out of the filename as long as your naming convention is always the same.

I could post it here if anybody is interested but I can't remember the original author so I can't credit them. Otherwise I'm sure I got it from these forums so do searching.

I came across this tool you are talking about from a Google search just Yesterday and am at work ATM so don't know either.

I am pretty new to XBMC but used Meedio and MediaPortal for 5 years previous. So far, everything (Music, HDD Movies, Offline Movies, TV Shows, Shoutcast, TV Emulation etc...) has all been quite simple but music videos just don't fit in well and the MTV scraper went bust just after I started with XBMC.

I have my videos imported using the basic NFO creator but this just gives me the Artist and Song which is good enough. I have found though (maybe because I am using a MySQL database) that when I try and do a list of artists in the Music videos, the artists are listed but there are no video files listed. I need to list by file name which lists normally but I get no more data or options than a simple folder view. The only benefit is its now a library of files that can be used easier when creating playlists.

Not too fussed at the moment as it's a lower priority and I have a MusicTV channel with Psuedo TV so that's great