Hi guys - thanks once more to all involved for continuing updates
Firstly - the Last.FM problem was at their end, not in XBMC. They had problems at their datacentre over the weekend and large lumps of site functionality were broken or working at reduced capacity.
It's (mostly) back to normal now, and scrobbling updates from XBMC are working fine.
Secondly - re
2008-04-06 12546 fixed: refresh album/artist info didnt work in reference to problem from
April 06th 2008 Svn Rev12544 Build :-
The Artists Info refresh/re-select works fine now, but is still broken for Album Info in the same manner described above.
Thirdly - On a related note ... the automatic selection of an album's ID seems to be behaving very strangely, and getting some pretty innaccurate results.
[EDIT] Ok - deleted a big chunk of speculation about why so many incorrect album IDs were being selected, because I think I've discovered the real issue It appears that the scraper regex is matching the first Album ID result (in order of relevance) that doesn't have a "Listen Now !" option in the album listing.
When this Listen Now option is available an extra column entry is added with the album ID and "~R" appended.
e.g. If you look at the results for
OK Computer by Radiohead - The most relevant result row has the Listen Now
and the plain album ID [i.e.
hbfqxquhld6e~R and hbfqxquhld6e].
The scraper picks instead the next result from a row with
only the plain ID [i.e.
fcfwxzqgldke which is `Okay Computer` from someone called `Robby Roadsteamer`]
If the album name in question has a lot of results that have Listen Now options then you can end up with a selection that is very far down the relevance scale indeed
I've looked at about 20 or so album titles and in each case the above seems to hold true.
Hopefully it's just a case of tweaking the regex in the scraper XML to ignore the
~R.
(I had a look myself, but my regex skills aren't nearly good enough to prevent my brain melting and dribbling out my ears when I tried putting together some test expressions
)
See now thats what I'm talking about what a great post hope its actually true because I get the same issues with very poor results for album info