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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: lalittle on November 24, 2004, 11:50:52 pm

Title: "Artist Info" not as bulletproof as it used to be.
Post by: lalittle on November 24, 2004, 11:50:52 pm: I've noticed that the "Artist Info" service just doesn't work as well as it used to. I just hit it while on a "Beatles" song and Allmusic came up telling me that it found no match to "The + Beatles." The closest match it found was "Thebe Lipere."

I manually entered "The Beatles" in the search box, and it did find it this time, but when I when to the Beatles page and hit the "songs" button, I got a registration screen. I went ahead and registered, but it still seems like the Artist Info used to be a bit more bulletproof.

Thanks,

Larry
Title: Re:"Artist Info" not as bulletproof as it used to be.
Post by: KingSparta on November 25, 2004, 08:27:39 am: i have no idea what your talking about are you talking about Media Center Or All Music?
Title: Re:"Artist Info" not as bulletproof as it used to be.
Post by: lalittle on November 25, 2004, 08:52:12 am: Quote from: KingSparta on November 25, 2004, 08:27:39 am
i have no idea what your talking about are you talking about Media Center Or All Music?

The "Artist Info" button in Media Center uses the "All Music" site for it's information -- so I guess I'm talking about both. I notice that when I use this feature in MC, I have to fuss with it more than I used to in order to get the correct band info to come up. In other words, the band info is on the site, but for some reason the initial launch (i.e. hitting "Artist Info" in MC with a song highlighted) doesn't seem to properly understand what band I'm looking for even though a subsequent search at allmusic can easily find the band.

Larry
Title: Re:"Artist Info" not as bulletproof as it used to be.
Post by: KingSparta on November 25, 2004, 09:42:34 am: where would one find this "Artist Info" Button ?

I don't see it

MC 11.0.133
Title: Re:"Artist Info" not as bulletproof as it used to be.
Post by: Alex B on November 25, 2004, 10:10:59 am: Artist Info should be in the MC tree under Playing Now.

I guess that All Music Guide has changed their search. MC sends The+Beatles, but their search engine needs The + Beatles or plain The Beatles.
Title: Re:"Artist Info" not as bulletproof as it used to be.
Post by: KingSparta on November 25, 2004, 10:22:35 am: oh ok, i was looking for a dang button

I did some playing with the Search URL

it seems to work fine

I think anything found is based on what comes from Allmusic

because MC uses the Artist field as it is, to build a URL and submit that to the Allmusic Search.
Title: Re:"Artist Info" not as bulletproof as it used to be.
Post by: Shelly on November 27, 2004, 11:27:59 am: There is both an "artist info" toolbar button and a tree command. I prefer to use the button, as it opens to the artist in the external web browser, whereas, the tree command opens to the AMG artist page internal to MC. As of .129 the artist info button does not work, as reported by lalittle. The tree command continues to function correctly.
Title: Re:"Artist Info" not as bulletproof as it used to be.
Post by: AoXoMoXoA on November 27, 2004, 05:44:02 pm: The toolbar button for Artist Info appears to be working.
Title: Re:"Artist Info" not as bulletproof as it used to be.
Post by: Shelly on November 27, 2004, 05:59:47 pm: Quote from: AoXoMoXoA on November 27, 2004, 05:44:02 pm
The toolbar button for Artist Info appears to be working.

Too strange! It wasn't working this afternoon, but I'll confirm that it's working now. I'm sure KingSparta is correct that this is dependent on AMG rather, than, MC.
Title: Re:"Artist Info" not as bulletproof as it used to be.
Post by: modelmaker on November 27, 2004, 08:33:04 pm: AMG has recently redesigned their whole web site. Some things are still a bit slow and somethings don't work at all, but it's getting better. It's still a work in progress.

My guess is the problem is with AMG.