[kuzeth]

Hey guys, hoping someone can help here.

I've been adding a few albums to my music library and whenever I try to go to Album Information, to change the thumb manually, it just takes me in a loop, asking for the album and artist name over and over and over and over *deep breath* and over and over again. It takes me on a loop every time I try and go to Album Information or Artist Information meaning I can't change the thumb/fanart for any given album and artist.

I'm unsure if I need a log for this problem, but any help would be excellent.

Thanks in advance!

Edit: I'm also trying to export my music library (keeping all my fanart/thumbs) to a local drive so I can add it to a different computer without having to re-scrape everything.

It doesn't give me an option to save it anywhere and then exports 1 album/artist and then crashes.

Edit 2: Looks like it was exporting in the background, never mind on that account.

[scott967]

What works for me is to create at least a minimum artist and album nfo file and use the import function. Once you import you will be able get the info window to select your art.

scott s.
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[kuzeth]

Hey Scott, thanks for the reply.

I'm sorry but I don't get what you mean exactly, I'm pretty hopeless when it comes to these sort of things.

[scott967]

The wiki shows the format for artist.nfo and album.nfo files. Alternatively, you can export your music library to a single file. Then you can use any

Code:

<artist> </artist>

and

Code:

<album> </album>

block as templates that you can copy and paste, then edit the data as desired for the artist or album that didn't scrape. Once you have added the missing artists and albums you can save and import the edited file. Then you can update the art files ib xbmc without getting caught in the scrape step.

scott s.
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[kuzeth]

Hey Scott, thanks again for getting back to me

By block the templates, I assume you mean something along these lines?

<musicdb>
<artist>
<name>Leon Redbone</name>
</artist>
</musicdb>

^ Taken from Whitebelly's post here (that you've posted in) http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=180426

That work's awesomely for artists, doing them 1 by 1 I'm assuming is the way to go.. but I was wondering how to do it for albums?

If there was a way to avoid the whole scraping process all together (straight to album/artist information) that would be absolutely fantastic as I only use local information.

[kuzeth]

Bump.

[mikebzh44]

Could you give an example of artist name and album name, so we could try to reproduce your issue.

Which scraper for artists and albums ?

[kuzeth]

Hey Mike, thanks for taking an interest.

Well, Eminem - The Marshall Mather's LP 2 that gives me a loop on both of my machines running XBMC. Only my HTPC build has the wrong thumbnail, but I can't adjust it manually on either.

I uninstalled and re-installed on my gaming machine, and now 2pac (artist) gives me a loop as well. On my HTPC it runs fine. There doesn't seem to be a constant.

Its extremely frustrating.

For Albums I've been using Universal Album Scraper & Local Information. Both give the same error.

For Artists I'm using Universal Album Scraper as I don't know how to create an .nfo for the artist to get the info aside from exporting the library THEN adjusting the .nfo accordingly.

[scott967]

Actually what I do is write a SQL command for SQLite that populates the "last scraped date" field for both artist and album tables in the music database. That takes care of the "not scraped therefore you can't add local art" issue.

if the artist has a valid MBID, adding that to the song tags can also help avoid scraper problems.

scott s.
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[kuzeth]

Hey Scott, thanks for the reply again and sorry for the lateness of mine.

I wouldn't have the first clue how to run SQLite I'm afraid. One of those things I'm going to have to learn eventually, but I don't know any form of code (unless we count BB Code and modifying python .nfo's haha) but if that fixes the issue I'm willing to learn, its the only workaround I have for albums stuck in a loop. Would you happen to have a tutorial/guide on how to do what you're talking about?

MBID = Music Brainz ID?

If so, how do I add that to the tags?

[mikebzh44]

Well, Eminem - The Marshall Mather's LP 2 that gives me a loop on both of my machines running XBMC. Only my HTPC build has the wrong thumbnail, but I can't adjust it manually on either.

I have the same issue with this album.

This loop means that XBMC and scrapers didn't find any information on this album / artstist combination. Just press ESC key to exit from this loop.

BTW, when enterin this loop, I rename album name to the first album "The Marshall Mathers LP"



then the scrap is OK



It's weird because the 2 albums are known on AudioDB :



And album is also known on Musicbrainz :

https://musicbrainz.org/release-group/b1...edca6b2ad3

I think there is something wrong in the scraper : http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...pid1744266

[mikebzh44]

Your issue will be fixed with the next release of Universal Album Scraper.

When adding album to library, album is scraped :



And, in library mode, it's OK for this album :





If you don't want to wait to the next release, you can copy this XML file :

https://www.dropbox.com/s/t9rdrdveiknyul...versal.xml

and overwrite existing file in addons\metadata.album.universal folder on your(s) HTPC(s)

[whitebelly]

Actually what I do is write a SQL command for SQLite that populates the "last scraped date" field for both artist and album tables in the music database. That takes care of the "not scraped therefore you can't add local art" issue.

if the artist has a valid MBID, adding that to the song tags can also help avoid scraper problems.

scott s.
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Could you share that command? That would come in handy.

[kuzeth]

Edit: Confirmed working now!

Thanks a lot Mike, absolute legend! Can't thank you enough for taking the time to help me out thanks again!