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+--- Thread: Info windows for albums/artists don't make sense in default installs (/showthread.php?tid=153229)
Info windows for albums/artists don't make sense in default installs - joebrady - 2013-01-24
Problem: in a default setup it doesn't make sense to have the info window for albums or artists as there is little to no meta data available on fresh library imports.
Solution: We have a setting to automatically download additional meta data on import, but it's disabled by default. Enable this by default BUT don't scrape this information during library import, but queue a job that does this after the initial import has finished. (same probably for actors)
RE: In a default setup it doesn't make sense to have the info window for albums - jmarshall - 2013-01-24
Agreed, this requires the music scanner is rewritten to use a jobqueue for the artists/albums.
Once done we can certainly enable the setting by default, though I think we'd also need to consider prompting on first scan to ensure user gets a chance to change the default scraper stuff.
RE: In a default setup it doesn't make sense to have the info window for albums - Martijn - 2013-01-24
The Heimdall scraper engine was supposed to do this iirc?
RE: In a default setup it doesn't make sense to have the info window for albums - jmarshall - 2013-01-24
IMO we shouldn't rely on something that isn't yet fully realised. We need to fix up what we have in concert with doing something new.