# \[WS\] vgmdb **URL:** \ **Category:** Web Sources Scripts\ **Created:** [January 19, 2010, 12:25pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-vgmdb/9731 "2010-01-19T12:25:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Kougeru](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/cc9497/32.png) [@Kougeru](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Kougeru)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2014, 5:54pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-vgmdb/9731/41 "2014-02-11T17:54:09Z")
I realize this is a really dated thread, however it's exactly what I need. I've tried using the latest version of this script that I can find and it gives me really tags sometimes. For example, on this page [http://vgmdb.net/album/38347](http://vgmdb.net/album/38347) The kanji versions like 夢☆ONCE AGAIN, display as 螟｢笘・NCE AGAIN on Mp3tag. Track 8, ここで待ってるよ displays as 縺薙％縺ｧ蠕・▲縺ｦ繧九ｈ. I can't figure out why this is happening, but it's happening more often than not on the albums I've tried, but not all. For example, [http://vgmdb.net/album/39348](http://vgmdb.net/album/39348) works perfectly with mp3tag, everything displays as it should with the kanji intact. Any ideas would be great. I'm really anal about tagging and probably spend weeks of my life a year doing it. I wish i discovered mp3tag years ago, so even if I cant get this resolved it still be cut a ton of time out of the process thanks to other scripts and this one when it works. ---
**Author:** ![Herr1](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/aeb1de/32.png) [@Herr1](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Herr1)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2015, 10:15am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-vgmdb/9731/42 "2015-07-05T10:15:02Z")
Edit: Found it out, but it's quite cumbersome. 1. Find out how many tracks you have. 2. Count out and select the amount of "placeholders" (\< no association \>) corresponding to the amount of tracks you have. 3. Drag and drop them to above your local tracks in the list. This is quite cumbersome though, as said, so a way to choose the track language with a dialog box or something like that would be better than selecting placeholders. Also, I found a bug. When you do this method, the track numbers will be doubled because all the languages count as the same album.. This would be nice to have fixed. Thanks! --------------------------OLD-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- How the fudge do you choose to use Japanese titles? The English ones are "furthest to the front" and are the default. But however, I want to change so that I use the Japanese track titles as default. What to do? ---
**Author:** ![Alcahest](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/8491ac/32.png) [@Alcahest](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Alcahest)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2015, 6:05pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-vgmdb/9731/43 "2015-07-21T18:05:08Z")
Halp, it seems the scripts have broken completely. 1. When searching via title which contains multiple words (exemple: Burning Soldier), there's an error: 2. When reaching the main "adjust tag information" window, all fields are empty/unpopulated except the "Album" one :S Hoping a fix is possible, thanks! ---
**Author:** ![mprimegmr](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/mprimegmr/32/6440_2.png) [@mprimegmr](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mprimegmr)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2015, 12:02pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-vgmdb/9731/44 "2015-07-22T12:02:09Z")
I'm having the exact same problem. ---
**Author:** ![cublikefoot](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/b38774/32.png) [@cublikefoot](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/cublikefoot)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2015, 2:55pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-vgmdb/9731/45 "2015-07-22T14:55:56Z")
> [@Alcahest](#): > > Halp, it seems the scripts have broken completely. > > 1. When searching via title which contains multiple words (exemple: Burning Soldier), there's an error: > > 2. When reaching the main "adjust tag information" window, all fields are empty/unpopulated except the "Album" one :S > > Hoping a fix is possible, thanks! I am also having this problem! ---
**Author:** ![Kareha](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/b487fb/32.png) [@Kareha](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Kareha)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2015, 5:06am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-vgmdb/9731/46 "2015-07-26T05:06:39Z")
> [@Alcahest](#): > > Halp, it seems the scripts have broken completely. > > 1. When searching via title which contains multiple words (exemple: Burning Soldier), there's an error: > > 2. When reaching the main "adjust tag information" window, all fields are empty/unpopulated except the "Album" one :S > > Hoping a fix is possible, thanks! Can confirm as I'm also having the same issue. ---
**Author:** ![mprimegmr](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/mprimegmr/32/6440_2.png) [@mprimegmr](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mprimegmr)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2015, 5:43am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-vgmdb/9731/47 "2015-07-28T05:43:47Z")
Here's an image showing what I get after a query: ![](http://i.imgur.com/0scKGwG.png) [This is the album I'm using in the example above.](http://vgmdb.net/album/4429) Is this what everyone else is getting? ---
**Author:** ![Alcahest](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/8491ac/32.png) [@Alcahest](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Alcahest)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2015, 8:57am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-vgmdb/9731/48 "2015-07-28T08:57:30Z")
> [@mprimegmr](#): > > Is this what everyone else is getting? yes. ---
**Author:** ![mprimegmr](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/mprimegmr/32/6440_2.png) [@mprimegmr](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mprimegmr)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2015, 3:29pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-vgmdb/9731/49 "2015-07-28T15:29:11Z")
![](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jAe2tQcLQmE/TxQ8wnfc4LI/AAAAAAAAAM0/CtSntXHsVK8/s1600/Good-news1.jpeg) I was able to fix the scripts myself. What happened were two things: 1. the base site where coverart is located was changed from "[http://vgmdb.net/](http://vgmdb.net/)" to "[http://medium.media.vgm.io/](http://medium.media.vgm.io/)" 2. the way the coverart is displayed on the album page was changed from from a regular "src=" format to a "background-image" inline CSS property. The way the scripts work is that they pull info directly from the album page in the order it appears on the page. The reason the album title was the only info showing is because that is the only info pulled before the coverart. Because the script couldn't find the URL for the coverart, it timed out without retrieving the rest of the album information. Technical jargon aside, the scripts are fixed and there shouldn't be any further trouble. The fixed files are attached below. **EDIT:** Forgot to zip up the .src files. [VGMdb\_by\_URL.zip](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/8/8e6a3f1204a35466d01be5aa1e510112f500d0aa.zip) (1.48 KB) [VGMdb\_by\_Album.zip](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/c/c5551a780522f01b6cd039b6f5f8c662b092df00.zip) (1.77 KB) ---
**Author:** ![Alcahest](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/8491ac/32.png) [@Alcahest](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Alcahest)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2015, 3:48pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-vgmdb/9731/50 "2015-07-28T15:48:48Z")
mprimegmr, great find and great fix but it doesn't seem to grab the cover art anymore when using your "by Album" fixed script. The areas are now populated alright, but no cover art. Same on your side? ---
**Author:** ![mprimegmr](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/mprimegmr/32/6440_2.png) [@mprimegmr](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mprimegmr)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2015, 3:55pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-vgmdb/9731/51 "2015-07-28T15:55:48Z")
It's working fine for me. What album is it not working for? ---
**Author:** ![Alcahest](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/8491ac/32.png) [@Alcahest](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Alcahest)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2015, 3:57pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-vgmdb/9731/52 "2015-07-28T15:57:28Z")
> [@mprimegmr](#): > > It's working fine for me. What album is it not working for? Please try "Kyokugen" then select "Kyokugen Dasshutsu ADV Zennin Shibou Desu Soundtrack" from the list. ---
**Author:** ![mprimegmr](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/mprimegmr/32/6440_2.png) [@mprimegmr](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mprimegmr)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2015, 4:12pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-vgmdb/9731/53 "2015-07-28T16:12:42Z")
> [@Alcahest](#): > > Please try "Kyokugen" then select "Kyokugen Dasshutsu ADV Zennin Shibou Desu Soundtrack" from the list. This is what I'm getting: It might be a problem on your end. The most I can suggest is to try reinstalling mp3tag. Beyond that, I haven't a clue. Great game, by the way. Can't wait for Zero Escape 3! ---
**Author:** ![Alcahest](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/8491ac/32.png) [@Alcahest](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Alcahest)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2015, 4:17pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-vgmdb/9731/54 "2015-07-28T16:17:25Z")
QUOTE (mprimegmr @ Jul 28 2015, 20:12) \<{POST\_SNAPBACK}\> This is what I'm getting: 😉 (and yeah totally sublime game ^^) ---
**Author:** ![cublikefoot](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/b38774/32.png) [@cublikefoot](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/cublikefoot)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2015, 4:48pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-vgmdb/9731/55 "2015-07-28T16:48:09Z")
> [@mprimegmr](#): > > Technical jargon aside, the scripts are fixed and there shouldn't be any further trouble. The fixed files are attached below. Thanks a lot for this! I'm also having a problem that I hope someone can help with! Sometimes, when I try to fetch the tracklist for an album, the Japanese (or special) characters get all messy. Would anyone happen to know why? The text on the left is what it should show up as, and the text on the right is what's returned. ---
**Author:** ![Herr1](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/aeb1de/32.png) [@Herr1](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Herr1)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2015, 9:05am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-vgmdb/9731/56 "2015-08-23T09:05:33Z")
I have two requests for someone who knows: 1. To add a dialog box, or maybe make a different script, or maybe just even tell people where to change if someone wants only the English/Japanese/Chinese/Romaji track names. 2. VLC doesn't like long artist names because of the cache function, so maybe it would be good to add artists within brackets (i.e Konno Strings (Hitoshi Konno, Tomomi Tokunaga, Naomi Urushibara, Akane Irie, Natsue Kameda, Madoka Kurii, Kyoko Ishigame, Yosuke Niwa, Risa Yamamoto, Shoko Oki, Akiko Konno, Sachie Oonuma, Amiko Watabe, Mayumi Taniguchi, Daiki Suzumura, Masateru Nishikata, Yoshie Furukawa, Haruka Hayashi, Shigeki Ippon, Hisami Tamaki) to a custom tag "PERFORMERS"? See: [http://vgmdb.net/album/48142](http://vgmdb.net/album/48142). Thank you! //Herr. Schweden ---
**Author:** ![ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ohrenkino/32/4843_2.png) [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2015, 9:32am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-vgmdb/9731/57 "2015-08-23T09:32:09Z")
Two answers that do not really solve the problem but might remedy the most urgent needs: If you get too much data in one field and you want to move it to another field, you may apply an action after you have retrieved data from the Web source, e.g. "Guess values" for TITLE Guessing pattern: %title% (%involvedpeople%) I do not know a field called performers. In respect to Web sources in general: All MP3tag does is to issue a search request for a particular web page. It then parses the page for information. If you can query that web source so that it produces only entries in one particular language, you may get the desired result. Or you have to have a unique identifier for the other fields ... Mp3tag does not know anything about languages. If the web page itself does not offer this feature, you are lost. ---
**Author:** ![elecgnosis](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/58f4c7/32.png) [@elecgnosis](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/elecgnosis)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2015, 12:16am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-vgmdb/9731/58 "2015-10-10T00:16:42Z")
Thank you, mprimegmr. You just saved my sanity. Do you have plans to release a version that only grabs the cover art? ---
**Author:** ![rsc-pl](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@rsc-pl](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/rsc-pl)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2015, 3:27pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-vgmdb/9731/59 "2015-12-28T15:27:03Z")
QUOTE (cublikefoot @ Jul 28 2015, 19:48) \<{POST\_SNAPBACK}\> Thanks a lot for this! I'm also having a problem that I hope someone can help with! Sometimes, when I try to fetch the tracklist for an album, the Japanese (or special) characters get all messy. Would anyone happen to know why? The text on the left is what it should show up as, and the text on the right is what's returned. ☹ ![](http://i.imgur.com/0OpOuGr.png) Messed up kana and kanji symbols. I have jap locale of coruse. ---
**Author:** ![Alcahest](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/8491ac/32.png) [@Alcahest](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Alcahest)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2015, 6:58pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-vgmdb/9731/60 "2015-12-28T18:58:14Z")
> [@rsc-pl](#): > > Same here, it worked like harm before ☹ > Messed up kana and kanji symbols. I have jap locale of coruse. I don't believe this is due to MP3Tag's VGMdb source script. For exemple this album comes out just fine (proper jpn in mp3tag): [http://vgmdb.net/album/27739](http://vgmdb.net/album/27739) Looking at the source code for both pages, it's pretty clear. For track 01: [http://vgmdb.net/album/25008](http://vgmdb.net/album/25008) ``` 01 愛しい存在 ``` [http://vgmdb.net/album/27739](http://vgmdb.net/album/27739) ``` 01 朝倉音姫 ``` The charset=UTF-8 for both pages but somehow for [http://vgmdb.net/album/25008](http://vgmdb.net/album/25008) the jpn track titles are not stored as UTF-8 but as what I believe is Shift-JIS. It's an issue that should be raised up on VGMdb, some editors are just doing it wrong. [Previous page](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-vgmdb/9731.md?page=2) [Next page](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-vgmdb/9731.md?page=4)