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Allmusic album info?

Hi.. hopefully I'm posting this in the right forum.  I don't think there's an existing plug-in for it, but I'm looking for a way to include info from Allmusic in my UI.  I think I've seen people mention doing this using WSH panes...?  Problem is I have no idea what I'm doing with that.  If someone could provide a bit of instruction or point me in the right direction I'd be super grateful.

Basically I'd just like a pane or two with Artist info and Album review info from Allmusic.  I have a biography pane for last.fm... maybe that can be adapted to provide what I want from Allmusic?

Thanks in advance for your guidance.

Allmusic album info?

Reply #2 –
Quote from: marc2003 on
i have an allmusic review script inside this pack i made for WSH panel mod. it's album only - no artist info.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/22801321/wsh/samples.zip

make sure you check the readme carefully.


Dude, thanks so much!  This worked like a dream and came with a lot of other cool mods to boot!

My foobar feels brand new today...

Cheers!

Allmusic album info?

Reply #3 –
I have it working for standard releases but it doesn't seem to find the album if my tag field has remaster or reissue info in parentheses. Do I need to adjust the album field remapping?

For example:
Code: [Select]
1) %album% = A Night at the Opera          
2) %album% = A Night at the Opera (MFSL)

#1 Works great
#2 Returns "Nothing found."

Allmusic album info?

Reply #4 –
you could try this - but it assumes everything in parentheses is bad.

Code: [Select]
$ifgreater($strchr(%album%,'('),0,$substr(%album%,0,$sub($strchr(%album%,'('),2)),%album%)


 

Allmusic album info?

Reply #5 –
Quote from: marc2003 on
you could try this - but it assumes everything in parentheses is bad.
Thanks, that works well for my library actually. I was starting to figure out how to use the replace function..
$replace(%album%, '('MFSL')',)
..but that would only match specific strings. Sometimes I have "(2012 Remaster)" or whatever else, so your solution works much better.