Hi All
I have issues with my Music library that I can't seem to figure out, but first let me explain the situation.
I have had XBMC running and perfectly setup for over a year now. However I needed some more HDD space so on Friday (just gone) I picked up another 3tb and a 120gb SSD. I installed these into my HTPC and started to clean up the locations of my media as it was spread all over the place.
Once finished I rebooted and installed Windows 7 onto the SSD which is now my dedicated software hard drive. Now my storage situation is like this:
C: - OS/Software etc (including XBMC install)
D: 1tb Storage - This is now where all my music is.
E: 2tb Storage - This is where all my movies are.
F: 3tb Storage - This is where all my TV Shows are.
Now when I copied around the TV shows/Movies/Music folders I did not make any adjustments, I left all the files including all the art that was downloaded previously etc.
I reinstalled XBMC (Eden 11.0 as I need the dual audio feature that isn't available on Frodo yet)(And installed Aeon MQ3 skin same as it was before) and made a source for TV Shows & Movies, I then ran Artwork Downloader and once finished everything with Movies and TV Shows was perfect, fanart showing, posters art etc everything was great like it was before.
I noticed however for music that XBMC kept saying that the Allmusic scraper was broken, I didn't think much of it however since I used to use the MusicBranz scraper anyway. Just so you know when I was setting XBMC up last time (over a year ago) I ran all my music through MusicBranz Picard, and spend many hours getting the tags perfect through that program.
The music folder structure is as follows: Music/Artist/Album/Track.mp3
So anyway I went to change the default music scraper to MusicBranz but then I found my first issue, its not there![Confused]( "Confused")
I couldn't find the MusicBranz scraper in the repository like last time? I thought that was odd but then selected the Universal Scraper.
I then added my Music source, selected that new scraper (which was already selected anyway) clicked scan to library and went to bed.
Next morning I woke up, it had finished scanning to library, but the odd thing was that none of the fanart showed up, I have Music Artists in slideshow view so there should be a thumbnail for the artist as well as the background fanart. But there was none of this, there was however a few album thumbnails (though some were missing). I thought that was a bit odd since the fanart from the before was still in all the folders etc.
So I then opened up cdArt Manager, turned on MusicBranz ID thing in settings (which I was instructed to do last time), and ran the build database. After this was finished I ran through all the download art options which were real quick. Went back and checked the music library... Still nothing. I thought this was odd so I picked a random artist (in this case Aerosmith) and in the contect menu selected "Artist Information" which I know usually brings up options for reloading, fanart etc. However up popped the search window (where you can type in the artist) with "Aerosmith" already typed in, I clicked "Done" so it would search, it searched for a few seconds and then just returned to the search window again... I tried this numerous times on different artists and none seemed to be recognised??
So I then went back and checked cdArt manager, I went into fanart then search artist, which buffered for awhile then brought up my list of artists, however no matter what I clicked on it said "unrecognised" and then "no art for artist, please add some to Fanart.tv"
This is where I am now. It seems to me like XBMC music scrapper isnt working? But I have deleted the music library (cleaned in between) and rescanned using a few different scrapers like Freebase I think, YOYO, basically a few from the small list of scrapers available for download and install.
So can someone tell me where I am going wrong? I tried all the tricks that I remembered from the last time I set this up, but like I said it was over a year ago so I'm a little bit hazy on the details.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, and please ask questions as to what I did try.
Thanks
I have issues with my Music library that I can't seem to figure out, but first let me explain the situation.
I have had XBMC running and perfectly setup for over a year now. However I needed some more HDD space so on Friday (just gone) I picked up another 3tb and a 120gb SSD. I installed these into my HTPC and started to clean up the locations of my media as it was spread all over the place.
Once finished I rebooted and installed Windows 7 onto the SSD which is now my dedicated software hard drive. Now my storage situation is like this:
C: - OS/Software etc (including XBMC install)
D: 1tb Storage - This is now where all my music is.
E: 2tb Storage - This is where all my movies are.
F: 3tb Storage - This is where all my TV Shows are.
Now when I copied around the TV shows/Movies/Music folders I did not make any adjustments, I left all the files including all the art that was downloaded previously etc.
I reinstalled XBMC (Eden 11.0 as I need the dual audio feature that isn't available on Frodo yet)(And installed Aeon MQ3 skin same as it was before) and made a source for TV Shows & Movies, I then ran Artwork Downloader and once finished everything with Movies and TV Shows was perfect, fanart showing, posters art etc everything was great like it was before.
I noticed however for music that XBMC kept saying that the Allmusic scraper was broken, I didn't think much of it however since I used to use the MusicBranz scraper anyway. Just so you know when I was setting XBMC up last time (over a year ago) I ran all my music through MusicBranz Picard, and spend many hours getting the tags perfect through that program.
The music folder structure is as follows: Music/Artist/Album/Track.mp3
So anyway I went to change the default music scraper to MusicBranz but then I found my first issue, its not there
I couldn't find the MusicBranz scraper in the repository like last time? I thought that was odd but then selected the Universal Scraper.I then added my Music source, selected that new scraper (which was already selected anyway) clicked scan to library and went to bed.
Next morning I woke up, it had finished scanning to library, but the odd thing was that none of the fanart showed up, I have Music Artists in slideshow view so there should be a thumbnail for the artist as well as the background fanart. But there was none of this, there was however a few album thumbnails (though some were missing). I thought that was a bit odd since the fanart from the before was still in all the folders etc.
So I then opened up cdArt Manager, turned on MusicBranz ID thing in settings (which I was instructed to do last time), and ran the build database. After this was finished I ran through all the download art options which were real quick. Went back and checked the music library... Still nothing. I thought this was odd so I picked a random artist (in this case Aerosmith) and in the contect menu selected "Artist Information" which I know usually brings up options for reloading, fanart etc. However up popped the search window (where you can type in the artist) with "Aerosmith" already typed in, I clicked "Done" so it would search, it searched for a few seconds and then just returned to the search window again... I tried this numerous times on different artists and none seemed to be recognised??
So I then went back and checked cdArt manager, I went into fanart then search artist, which buffered for awhile then brought up my list of artists, however no matter what I clicked on it said "unrecognised" and then "no art for artist, please add some to Fanart.tv"
This is where I am now. It seems to me like XBMC music scrapper isnt working? But I have deleted the music library (cleaned in between) and rescanned using a few different scrapers like Freebase I think, YOYO, basically a few from the small list of scrapers available for download and install.
So can someone tell me where I am going wrong? I tried all the tricks that I remembered from the last time I set this up, but like I said it was over a year ago so I'm a little bit hazy on the details.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, and please ask questions as to what I did try.
Thanks