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Generic Artist Scraper
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See this add-on on the kodi.tv showcase

Author: Team Kodi

Type: Artist information
Repo: Kodi.tv repo v20
Kodi.tv repo v19

License: GPL-2.0-only

Summary: Python Artist Scraper
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The new Artist scraper for v19 Matrix and higher written in Python. It can access a number of sites to download artwork and artist metadata

Installing

This add-on is installed from the Add-on browser located in Kodi as follows:

  1. Settings
  2. Add-ons
  3. Install from repository
  4. Information providers (v16 and higher)
  5. Artist information
  6. Generic Artist Scraper
  7. Install



Introduction

Generic Artist Scraper is the latest Python music scraper developed by Team Kodi. The scraper is the default Artist scraper for v19 Matrix and later.

The Generic Artist scraper can access the following sites to scrape artwork and additional information for Artists already in your music library:


Notes:

  • The music library is created from the embedded tags in your music files. These scrapers download artwork and additional data and require your music files to be scanned into the library first. You cannot run these scrapers on an empty library or for missing artists, unlike the video library. With the correct setting enabled, the scraper can be run in parallel with the initial scanning of your music files.
  • Ensure your music files contain MusicBrainz ID's. This dramatically reduces incorrect and failed scrapes, speeds up the scraping process and reduces demands on the remote servers.
  • For more information on creating your music library, see... HOW-TO:Create Music Library


Artwork

There are no artwork setting in this scraper. Artwork types are set in Settings > Media > Music where you have a choice of setting None, Custom, Basic or Maximum artwork to be scanned from local files or scraped from remote sources using this scraper.

Valid artwork types for Artists are:

  • banner
  • clearart
  • clearlogo
  • landscape
  • fanart
  • thumbnail
See: Artwork types


Settings

Scraper settings can be adjusted in three locations as follows:

Settings>Add-ons
Scrapers are installed with default settings. Adjusting settings in this location sets the new default settings for your scraper. From this point on any source using this scraper will have the new default settings applied.
Music>Files>Source
Sets the default scraper settings as described in the previous section Settings>Add-ons
Artist>Context Menu>Change Information Provider
Allows you to select which artist(s) to change the default settings for.


Preferences

Image 1- General Settings

Preferred Language for artist biography
Set which language metadata to scrape. If the selected language is not available for an artist, it will fall back to scraping English metadata.
Prefer biography from
Choose which music database the Artist Biography will download from.
Prefer discography from
Choose which music database discography will download from. This will display a list of other albums by the artist.
Prefer genres from
Choose which music database genres will download from.
Prefer styles from
Choose which music database styles will download from.
Prefer moods from
Choose which music database moods will download from.


Options

Image 2- Options Settings

Allow less accurate search results
If your music is tagged with MusicBrainz ID's then enabling this has no effect as the MusicBrains ID's will override this setting.
If your music files do not contain MuiscBrainz ID's and the scraper fails to find any information that you know is available, then enable this setting to widen the search. In some cases this setting can result in incorrect metadata being scraped.
See: MusicBrainz Picard Tagging Software


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