# Metal-Archives.com 2009
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/metal-archives-com-2009/7958
**Category:** Web Sources Scripts
**Created:** [February 18, 2009, 1:48pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/metal-archives-com-2009/7958 "2009-02-18T13:48:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@mayhemer](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mayhemer)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2009, 1:48pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/metal-archives-com-2009/7958/1 "2009-02-18T13:48:05Z")
The old Web Source Script for Metal Archives doesn't work for me. So I made a new one. It uses the Album-Search on the Metal Archives Site, not Google, to find the right album.
It just needs the name of the Album to find the right values.
I just added a second Plugin. It searches for the band name. It will only find the first 50 albums of the matching artists.
I also added a third Plugin. This one searches for the song title.
It imports:
Artist, Album, Title, Year, Cover, Publisher
Note: You can only find real Metal with this Plugin.
[Metal\_Archives.src](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/5/5ff873573170a600383393d5df45468a8cf7b3bf.src) (2.19 KB)
[Metal\_Archives\_\_\_Song.src](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/e/e333fd75cc1fa384f5c52820f14e9a007d7f8019.src) (2.19 KB)
[Metal\_Archives\_\_\_Artist.src](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/d/d99ece81fd3cbc1d952fbf20fec6f9f0d97ccccc.src) (2.2 KB)
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### Author:  [@mayhemer](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mayhemer)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2009, 1:17pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/metal-archives-com-2009/7958/2 "2009-03-11T13:17:17Z")
Just added a second Plugin. It searches for the band/artist name.
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### Author:  [@mayhemer](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mayhemer)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2009, 1:24pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/metal-archives-com-2009/7958/3 "2009-03-11T13:24:18Z")
I also added a third Plugin. This one searches for the song title.
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### Author:  [@biboun](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/biboun)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2009, 9:56pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/metal-archives-com-2009/7958/4 "2009-03-28T21:56:36Z")
Thank you for this web sources scripts headbanger 😉
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### Author:  [@1111](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/1111)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2009, 5:17am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/metal-archives-com-2009/7958/5 "2009-04-01T05:17:11Z")
This isn't working for me. I follow the instructions, saving it to: C:\Documents and Settings\*username\*\Application Data\Mp3tag\data\sources, but it doesn't work (?)
I tried adding .srs and .ini and it still won't work 
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### Author:  [@mayhemer](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mayhemer)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2009, 8:45am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/metal-archives-com-2009/7958/6 "2009-06-10T08:45:31Z")
Do you use Windows XP?
In Windows Vista you have to use an other path: C:\Users\*username\*\AppData\Roaming\Mp3tag\data\sources
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### Author:  [@Krapfen](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Krapfen)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2010, 6:19pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/metal-archives-com-2009/7958/7 "2010-12-18T18:19:23Z")
Hi,
I'm using this web source script very often and it works fine in most cases, but I have a problem when I'm looking for split releases with multiple artists. In this case I just retrieve the songs of the first artist.
And sometimes it gets very often "user abort" errors on searching. But maybe this is more a hoster problem or is somewhere a timeout counter?
Would be great if someone could fix this issue, because I'm not very experienced with scripting.
thanks in advance
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### Author:  [@BMirsun](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/BMirsun)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2011, 6:14pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/metal-archives-com-2009/7958/8 "2011-04-22T18:14:09Z")
Sadly this doesn't work any more since Metal-Archives updated their layout.
Could someone please fix this?
Many thanks in advance.
Kind regards,
BMirsun
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### Author:  [@porcus](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/porcus)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2011, 11:42am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/metal-archives-com-2009/7958/9 "2011-04-29T11:42:42Z")
> [@BMirsun](#):
>
> Sadly this doesn't work any more since Metal-Archives updated their layout.
> Could someone please fix this?
Seems to me that the old site has moved from [www.metal-archives.com](http://www.metal-archives.com) to [v1.metal-archives.com](http://v1.metal-archives.com). The following seems to work:
For all three .src files:
- open in notepad
- search/replace all "www.metal" with "v1.metal"
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### Author:  [@Pretorians](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Pretorians)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2011, 1:24pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/metal-archives-com-2009/7958/10 "2011-04-29T13:24:05Z")
> [@Porcus](#):
>
> Seems to me that the old site has moved from [www.metal-archives.com](http://www.metal-archives.com) to [v1.metal-archives.com](http://v1.metal-archives.com). The following seems to work:
>
> For all three .src files:
>
> - open in notepad
> - search/replace all "www.metal" with "v1.metal"
Thanks
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### Author:  [@BMirsun](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/BMirsun)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2011, 5:56pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/metal-archives-com-2009/7958/11 "2011-04-29T17:56:20Z")
> [@Porcus](#):
>
> Seems to me that the old site has moved from [www.metal-archives.com](http://www.metal-archives.com) to [v1.metal-archives.com](http://v1.metal-archives.com).
Ah, yes, of course. I didn't recognize that 🙂.
> [@Porcus](#):
>
> - open in notepad
> - search/replace all "www.metal" with "v1.metal"
Bingo, works.
Many thanks! _thumbs up_
Kind regards.