If artists are referred to as "Smashing Pumpkins, The" the fanart won't show up

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INFORMATION:

ID3TAG: Artist/Album Artist = "The Smashing Pumpkins"

Mediaportal music importer automatically removes "The" prefix.
eg. "The Smashing Pumpkins" -> "Smashing Pumpkins, The"
This is the default behaviour of mediaportal, and it makes sense not to
have all the "The ..." artists lumped together.  Moving Pictures does the
same thing with movies starting with "The" prefix.

So when you browse the music genres instead of "The Smashing Pumpkins"
appearing under 'T' it appears under 'S'
eg. "Smashing Pumpkins, The"

On the now playing screen mediaportal still calls the arist the original
ID3TAG name eg. "The Smashing Pumpkins".  There is one exception to this
rule.  If you jump to a playlist containing "The Smashing Pumpkins"
mediaportal calls the artist "Smashing Pumpkins, The" until you fast
forward to the next track.

ISSUE 1:

Manual Scraper fails to find images for "The Smashing Pumpkins", however
the now playing scraper can find an image.  I think this is because the
manual scraper is looking for "Smashing Pumpkins, The" however the now
playing scraper is looking for "The Smashing Pumpkins"

ISSUE 2:

When browsing music/playlist, I don't get an image for smashing pumpkins. 
I think this is because when I browse artists MP calls the artist "Smashing
Pumpkins, The" and the plugin thinks there is no fanart.

ISSUE 3:

If I start playing a Smashing Pumpkins album, when I jump to Now Playing I
don't get any fanart until I FFWD to the 2nd track.  This is because of the
now playing window, calls the artist "Smashing Pumpkins, The" when you
first enter now playing, if you FFWD to the next track, the artist's name
magically changes to "The Smashing Pumpkins" and we get the fanart
displayed again.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by kiwijung...@gmail.com on 1 Feb 2010 at 9:06

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Googlecode added those irrelevant links automatically.

Original comment by kiwijung...@gmail.com on 1 Feb 2010 at 9:08

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This is the same, or similar issue to the 'and' and '&' issue I reported 
before. It
seems because of disparities between tags, image names at HTB and how MP reports
names to the handler these things will constantly crop up.

Chuck

Original comment by that...@2bitstudio.com on 1 Feb 2010 at 9:11

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I think this issue while slightly similar is definitely seperate because:

(1)

user can decide whether to call the aritst
"... & ..." or "... and ..."
user should use the official spelling of the artist name, and if the user is
consistent with id3tag naming and fanart naming then there shouldn't be a 
problem.

(2)

Mediaportal handles the &/and strings consistently throughout the program
ie. if I call an artist "State of Mind & Tiki" mediaportal doesn't alter the 
name to
"State of Mind and Tiki" in any of the music screens.

*****

So basically your issue just relates to users not consistently naming their
music/backdrops.  However I still think that ideally fanart handler should 
scrape
check for fanart for the alternative '&'/'and' string when it searches.

Original comment by kiwijung...@gmail.com on 1 Feb 2010 at 9:20

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http://forum.team-mediaportal.com/bugreports-74/now-playing-screen-problem-artis
ts-prefix-77191/#post571934

Original comment by kiwijung...@gmail.com on 1 Feb 2010 at 9:29

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I concede to your point, the issues are not the same, but still maintain, as 
you also
stated. Official names should be used in both tags and HTBackdrop image names. 
Now if
only MP would sort names the same way MovingPictures does.

Chuck

Original comment by that...@2bitstudio.com on 1 Feb 2010 at 9:49

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ISSUE #4 - Similar to issue #3, but for my lyrics also.

If I start playing a Smashing Pumpkins album, when I jump to My Lyrics plugin I
don't get any fanart until I FFWD to the 2nd track.  This is because the
my lyrics plugin, calls the artist "Smashing Pumpkins, The" when you
first enter my lyrics, if you FFWD to the next track, the artist's name
magically changes to "The Smashing Pumpkins" and we get the fanart
displayed again.

Original comment by kiwijung...@gmail.com on 2 Feb 2010 at 1:07

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Original comment by markus_e...@telia.com on 2 Feb 2010 at 2:14

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Original comment by markus_e...@telia.com on 2 Feb 2010 at 10:02

• Changed state: Done