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
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 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.
Count out and select the amount of "placeholders" (< no association >) corresponding to the amount of tracks you have.
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!
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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?
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.
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?
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.
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.
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"?
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.
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.
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
Looking at the source code for both pages, it's pretty clear.
For track 01: http://vgmdb.net/album/25008
The charset=UTF-8 for both pages but somehow for 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.
