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Hi,
I got some mixed problems with the music scraper, when I try to get album information It sometimes get the correct this, and sometimes, its show me a list of some strange results, non of them accurate.
For example, lets say I have Artist Dream Theater, Album Train of thought.
Music scraper will go and try to find it with no result.
The same Artist with Album, Octavarium will get a find and even a Thumb...?
What I am missing here? What should I look at for the problem? Is it a scraper problem, or user problem jeje?
Thanks
CJC
I have a few persistent music scraper issues as well. I can understand some albums don't have info or review but there are a few that consistently have issues. For example, "Fragile" by Yes cannot pickup the review. Even though there is a review on allmusic.com. I thought the issue might be the naming of the files so I proceeded to name them exactly as on the website. The only thing I have yet to try is changing the album date (In Fragile's case, it was released in the UK in 1971 and in the US in early 1972). I always try to use the first street date available when tagging albums.
The only reason this album came to mind was because it was one of Yes' most popular albums, yet it never showed a review. Other less popular albums however had the album info.
I don't think that the info inst there because I go and check allmusic.com and I can get all the info.
Maybe its naming problem or a scrapper problem.
I have check and re-check the name though.
So that leave me with a scrapper problem. Any help?
I also have some allmusic scraper issues. The biggest one, is that when I scrape for albums, sometimes it finds the thumb, sometimes it doesn't. For example, 30 seconds to mars' self-titled album finds the tracklist and the review, but says that there is no thumb available. If I check the website, there most certainly is a thumb. I have this same problem with a good majority of albums I try to scan in.
Thamesman
2008-12-08, 14:27
I believe it's a problem with the RegEx in the scraper.. about 20% of my albums have problems (was about 10% before I upgraded to atlantis), where it says there is no review (when there is) and if you check the tracklist it will list the tracks until it gets to one that his either "(" , ")" , "[" or "]" it also seems to have problems where the composer or trackname wraps on the allmusic site.. This problem occurs on xbox, windows and linux
The only solution I have found is to manually create an album.nfo file (not helped by the fact that the layout for these files isn't in the wiki)
but as an example here is what an album info looks like (cut and paste this into notepad, save it as album.nfo in the directory of the album) - this method also means you can create infos for artists who arent on allmusic..
<album>
<title>Back to Black</title>
<artist>Amy Winehouse</artist>
<genre>R&B </genre>
<style>Contemporary R&B</style>
<style>Neo-Soul</style>
<mood>Rowdy</mood>
<mood>Earthy</mood>
<mood>Irreverent</mood>
<mood>Witty</mood>
<mood>Confident</mood>
<mood>Provocative</mood>
<mood>Brash</mood>
<mood>Passionate</mood>
<mood>Bittersweet</mood>
<mood>Boisterous</mood>
<mood>Acerbic</mood>
<mood>Rambunctious</mood>
<mood>Intense</mood>
<mood>Rousing</mood>
<mood>Stylish</mood>
<mood>Freewheeling</mood>
<mood>Sensual</mood>
<mood>Fiery</mood>
<mood>Aggressive</mood>
<mood>Fun</mood>
<mood>Menacing</mood>
<theme>TGIF</theme>
<theme>Party Time</theme>
<theme>Girls Night Out</theme>
<theme>Maverick</theme>
<theme>Freedom</theme>
<theme>Cool & Cocky</theme>
<review>The story of Back to Black is one in which celebrity and the potential of commercial success threaten to ruin Amy Winehouse, since the same insouciance and playfulness that made her sound so special when she debuted could easily have been whitewashed right out of existence for this breakout record. (That fact may help to explain why fans were so scared by press allegations that Winehouse had deliberately lost weight in order to present a slimmer appearance.) Although Back to Black does see her deserting jazz and wholly embracing contemporary R&B, all the best parts of her musical character emerge intact, and actually, are all the better for the transformation from jazz vocalist to soul siren. With producer Salaam Remi returning from Frank, plus the welcome addition of Mark Ronson (fresh off successes producing for Christina Aguilera and Robbie Williams), Back to Black has a similar sound to Frank but much more flair and spark to it. Winehouse was inspired by girl group soul of the '60s, and fortunately Ronson and Remi are two of the most facile and organic R&B producers active. (They certainly know how to evoke the era too; Remi's "Tears Dry on Their Own" is a sparkling homage to the Motown chestnut "Ain't No Mountain High Enough," and Ronson summons a host of Brill Building touchstones on his tracks.) As before, Winehouse writes all of the songs from her experiences, most of which involve the occasionally riotous and often bittersweet vagaries of love. Also in similar fashion to Frank, her eye for details and her way of relating them are delightful. She states her case against "Rehab" on the knockout first single with some great lines: "They tried to make me go to rehab I won't go go go, I'd rather be at home with Ray" (Charles, that is). As often as not, though, the songs on Back to Black are universal, songs that anyone, even Joss Stone, could take to the top of the charts, such as "Love Is a Losing Game" or the title song ("We only said good bye with words, I died a hundred times/You go back to her, and I go back to black").
</review>
<type>Explicit Lyrics</type>
<thumbs><thumb>http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dri300/i384/i38417panv0.jpg</thumb></thumbs>
<releasedate>Dec 19, 2006</releasedate>
<label>Republic</label>
<type>Explicit Lyrics</type>
<path>smb://LINKSTATION/Music/Amy Winehouse/Back to Black/</path>
<rating>8</rating>
<year>2006</year>
</album>
yeah, scaping allmusic gives you strange results.
there are all kind of issues, from getting the completely wrong album to getting no info at all (where there is an entry at allmusic) it's rather luck if you will have the correct and corresponding data.
i wish xbmc would just do a freedb lookup for album and titles, and let me do the rest.
I wasn't aware of the album.nfo's. I may end up doing that for my collection because music scraping is a pain. I spent a few hours yesterday manually refreshing missing albums. Some appeared and some didn't. Some of the albums that had no info were quite common (Yes-Fragile, Ozzy-Blizzard of Oz, etc...). All my mp3's are properly tagged with embedded high-res album covers. I'm still shocked when after clicking refresh, a list of completely unrelated albums show up. The worst is a greatest hits collection (Billy Idol's comes to mind). It lists 50 albums 'greatest hits', none are the artist in question. This scraper needs some serious updating.
This scraper needs some serious updating.
Agreed. For me it's wrong more often than it's right.
This scraper needs some serious updating.
i'd say scraping discogs.com would be rather informative. they even have an api for that.
downside is you have to get registered and have an api key to get the stuff listed there. not too bad, if you ask me. i'm just not skilled enough to write a scraper for it.. :no: