Add option to customize the priority of the databases before scraping

Issue #339 new
CriticalCid created an issue

I know it’s a little bit too early for such a request but I thought it would be nice to have this feature direct at the beginning when the other scrapers are implemented.

With the growing number of scrapers in the (hopefully) near future it would be nice to choose the priority of the different databases like in ROM Collection Browser for Kodi.

Screenshot: https://9a1f45d9a1d700c98c266bb31b9545f5435ee5a0.googledrive.com/host/0B-9ewpmLdTHqb25qSFpDWUJyYjA

So it would basically search for artwork and metadata from the first scraper the user has chosen. If the scraping is done and any artwork or metadata is missing it will jump to scraper 2 and look there for missing artwork and metadata. And so on and so on until all metadata and artwork is present or the last scraper is finished. The only thing that nagged me in RCB is that it features more scrapers than you can select for scraping. It would be nice to have the opportunity to use ALL available scrapers and not only just 3 like in RCB.

And of course the feature to select what kind of Artwork I want from each scraper should definitely stay :)

Comments (4)

  1. Brad Cheyne

    It does seem Wikipedia is chosen over the LaunchBox Games Database when selected and It should probably be the other way around? A check box to ask if you'd prefer Wikipedia over LBGDB? Unsure how many more scrapers we're looking at though. If we did add more, they'd be for a specific system (like Amiga), so priority handling still makes sense, but for only that system.

  2. kpop1

    also from rom collection browser you could change the fuzzy logic of reading the rom names from strict to relaxed

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