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    Andrew Ross commented  · 

    Hi Dan,

    Just drafting a new idea for the scraper which I will refine over the next day or two. Having had a think about the requirements of my idea, I think the important thing for me is for bliss to support the ability to save the jpg file as Album Name.thumb (I thought it was metathumb but I was incorrect) within the album directory.

    In terms of filenameing convention spaces seem to be replaced by "%20" and apostophies by "%27" as per the hex code for the character.

    Then the rest of my idea can be tidied up.

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    Andrew Ross commented  · 

    "More control over the image file name" works for the one suggestion. The second suggestion might be something like "Add xml scraper support" or "Add direct support for specific media streamers".

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    Andrew Ross commented  · 

    I can post up a sample directory structure later today but in essence the structure is <music>/<Artist>/<Album>/01 Song.ogg ... n Song.ogg

    Artist and Album definitions are defined by the ripper settings so are controlled. As you know, in theory they should match the ID tag but sometimes the tag differs. My MO is to rewrite the tag to match Artist and Album directory. bliss creates folder.jpg in the Album/Artist directory and would need to rename or copy folder.jpg to Album.metathumb. The WD scraper will also create an Album.xml file in the same directory with blurbs about the artist/album where available.

    Ignoring the xml element I currently cp folder.jpg Album.metathumb manually. That way I can maintain a dgeree of interoperability with other media devices.

    The WD is a bit strange and inconsistent in the way it handles cover art. As far as I can tell when the WD connects to the NAS as a media server it makes limited use of folder.jpg but when you connect as an NFS or SMB share (necessary to complie your media library) it scrapes the necessary metadata and generates a .metathumb file of zero length if it can't find the cover art or whatever the file size is of any art it finds.

    Hope this clarifys things?

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    Andrew Ross commented  · 

    Hi Dan,

    Sorry for the confusion. I kind of guessed that you would split them. Regarding the metathumb suggestion. It is the latter clarification i.e. bliss simply renames the .jpg as .metathumb while parsing the Album name/parent directory name as the file title.

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