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Niche as it may be, I have many compilations related to various films, or just singles used as theme song for TV shows, most of them anime. Having matching artwork with each one doesn't seem that odd of an idea in my opinion, especially when some songs are "image songs" that are performed by a voice actor/actress as a character and the effect would be shattered by using pictures of the actual VA.
So I don't need the sources for the images, I just need the option to add them myself without using that fake-artist-name trick.
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Bit late to the party (I've only just started using XBMC), but this is a feature I'd love too. It's very annoying when the image on screen shows a completely different lineup to the track you're listening too.
I really don't see how reading album fanart would be any harder than reading artist fanart.
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Thought I'd take a look under the hood at the music database.
In the art table there's a column called 'media_type' which has the value of song, album or artist. There's another called 'type' which is either thumb or fanart. Setting an entry to 'album' and 'fanart' for an existing album results in a different backdrop being shown. So adding fanart on an album or even song by song basis is definitely possible. Just needs an add on script to do the dirty work.
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It's not quite as easy as that, because add-ons in the official repositories can't access or edit the databases directly - you'd probably need to look for a Json method. And of course, unless you're planning to write it yourself, I suspect you won't find a developer for such a plugin in this part of the forums.
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Any news on this?
I would be also really interested in having a specific fanart for each album...
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Same thing.
Have lots of OST albums and not interested to watch the same Hans Zimmer's photo for all albums.
Looking for an easy way to specify fanart for specified albums.
Any news?
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Great job for just one man.
Thanks a lot for pointing me to those threads.
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Album specific fanart definitely works ,i tested it personally in Kodi Leia beta 5,for skin Aeon Madnox.every thing works Fanart and Extrafanart for Albums works well.If you are interested i can send the XML mod. I can post images also .I also tried Album specific clearlogo and it works too,this is important for film based soundtracks.
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Again asking about ALBUM fanart.
Using 18.4 + default Estuary skin.
What I can do now:
1. Select some album (for example, "The Dark Knight Rises" album).
2. Select "Information" from context menu.
3. Select "Choose art".
4. Select "Add art type".
5. Add new "Fanart" type.
6. Specify some jpg for "Fanart".
Now the selected jpg is displayed when the album is selected in list.
BUT - this fanart is NOT displayed during playback.
Seems only ARTIST fanart is displayed during playback, why?