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Not thinking, I may have done something wrong re: AudioDB scraper for Kodi.


Posted: 21 Apr 2026 05:17
OzDrDj
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Posts: 4
Joined: 2022-12-18

To the boss here at the AudioDB.

I have been working for the last 2 days on a modified version of the Kodi AudioDB Scraper to get more acurate results. I was testing this with my full music video collection of 1059 titles, but I thought I should knock this down to 10 titles for testing, quicker and more efficient, however, now I am getting an error and nothing is coming from the Audio Database. Which makes me think I have been bad and have been blocked, understandable I guess, but just confirming that is possibly what happend, and if that is the case what is the correct procedure for running my test.

Also if I am to continue I wanted to ask a question. The 10 Music Video Titles I was using for a test were tricky as titles so as to push the limits of the scraper. My Naming Procedure has been Capital on every word, no other characters other that 0 through 9 and a through Z and of course the - in between Title - Artist
I have listed here the obvious problems in brackets the scraper would run into.

5 OClock Somewhere - Alan Jackson And Jimmy Buffet (O'Clock)
100pc Pure Love - Crystal Waters (100%)
A Rockin Good Way To Mess Around and Fall In Love - Shakin Stevens and Bonnie Tyler (Rockin')
Ai Wo Choudai - AOA (A.O.A)
Aint Nobody - Chaka Khan (Ain't)
Back In Black - ACDC (AC/DC)
Bahala Na - Kenaniah (Foreign)
Bass Down Low - DEV and The Cataracts (Colaboration)
Beat It Dubstep - Michael Jackson (Different Version)
Black Betty - Ram Jam (This one left in to be found anyway)

My trap is trying to convert both the filename being input and the filename being checked against the same.
I can obviously convert my title into something extremely simple ie all lower case no punctuation etc, but trying to get the info to be checked against is where I am running into a wall, and it might be impossible, in which case, how would you suggest I do this for the greatest results. I know that the TV scrapers and Movie Scrapers do this somehow, but I am not that smart to figure that out yet, lol.

Anyhow, any info you could give, or anyone can give for that matter would be helpful.

Cheers

OzDrDj



Posted: 21 Apr 2026 19:49
zag
Admin
Posts: 324
Joined: 2020-07-14

No ban as far as I know ;) It should work.

If you look at the code to find out what API call its making, then just paste that into a browser and you should be able to test.

Happy to help with any edge cases. I know in the past things like hyphens, apostrophe's have caused issues.


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