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ialand
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this has to be one of the most annoying pet peeves I have on XBMC for TV
poster,jpg
folder.jpg
season-all.tbn
can all be the same thing, or all different things. you use the 'get thumb' button to get the poster, except everything is 'remote thumb' and are mixed with banners and posters
I would LOVE to see a paradigm change in the way graphics are done for XMBC
season-all-poster.jpg
season-all-banner.jpg
season-all-fanart.jpg
season-all-clearart.tga
season-all-logo.tga
season-xx-poster.jpg
season-xx-banner.jpg
season-xx-fanart.jpg
season-xx-clearart.tga
season-xx-logo.tga
(whatever the file name is)-thumbnail.jpg
jpg could be whatever is supported.. but tbn? that means nothing
same thing for the 'get thumb' button.. 'get artwork'... you could get a banner/poster/clearart/logo/whatever, but not all intermixed
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jingai
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I'd love to see it change as well, but for now, you all need to understand that the XBMC scrapers (such as TheTVDB Scraper) all scrape only one of poster or banner, whichever you told it to. The Artwork Downloader addon can fetch the other artwork you want and store it to disk, but Metropolis expects the default thumbnail to be a poster -- it will not use the poster.jpg you have stored on disk for this. It will use banner.jpg, however.
In other words, please go to Settings->Addons->TheTVDB->Prefer Posters (assuming you use TheTVDB scraper) and enable it. You will likely need to refresh info for the affected items, or possibly even remove them and rescan (I forget).
I believe work is underway (or at least planned) to get the scrapers to just fetch all of the artwork themselves (so skins always have both types available, regardless of whether or not the user has local artwork), but for now, if you want to use Metropolis, do be aware that it requires Posters as default.
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jingai
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I've begun adding Home screen customization. I need feedback on what else to add here, so if this subject interests you, please read on, use it, and provide feedback here.
Currently, you can choose what the Music item points to (artists, genres, albums, songs, playlists, addon; it defaults to Files now) and what the Pictures item points to (library or addon).
The Movies and TV Shows links are now dynamic depending on library content (i.e., they will go to Files view if you have no movies/shows, and they will show Files in the submenu if you have the Videos home item hidden so you may now add/edit sources without turning Videos back on).
Once these changes are propagated to the Passion repo, users of that repo can change these things in System->Metropolis->Home Items.
Please tell me what else you'd all like. We're going to wait a couple of weeks for the next release to give folks time to think about this.