Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Get AllMusic Guide scraping working again on Openelec XBMC


(copied from my forum post for easier finding!)

You must first copy the addons from the read-only system section:

/usr/share/xbmc/addons/metadata.albums.allmusic.com
/usr/share/xbmc/addons/metadata.artists.allmusic.com
/usr/share/xbmc/addons/metadata.common.allmusic.com

..to

/storage/.xbmc/addons

..and THEN copy the file in this xbmc forum post:

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=116461&pid=995098#pid995098

to this folder:

/storage/.xbmc/addons/metadata.common.allmusic.com

(this will get xbmc to first use the local copies rather than the system level addons, and then you add the appropriate changed files).

I can confirm the above method works with Openelec nightlies and I am getting album reviews, artist info, pictures etc.