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Nukles
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2014-10-18, 14:56
(This post was last modified: 2014-10-18, 19:19 by Nukles.)
Hi all,
I can't see the new posters or pictures of shows that came out after I first downloaded xbmc and its scrapers. For instance, I installed xbmc in July and now that the new Season of Big Bang Theory is out, I still see no new posters in the scraper when I click on "choose art". Shouldn't they auto-update?
I use thetvdb scraper.
thank you!
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2014-11-15, 00:13
(This post was last modified: 2014-11-15, 00:16 by aptalca.)
I asked this a couple of years ago and never got an answer.
When you hit refresh you have two options: either make it use local information, or make it ignore local information and search the internet.
If you make it use local, obviously it doesn't get any new posters.
But if you select ignore local, then it changes all of the existing artwork. This is a pain in the you know what.
I really think there should be a middle ground where xbmc only refreshes missing artwork and leaves the existing ones alone. So an option like use local information but search the internet for missing ones. In fact I think that should be the default behavior for refresh.
So, what I would like to really see is when you hit refresh the following happens:
1) the scraper searches for all the available artwork on the internet and updates the listings (but does not change existing art)
2) the scraper automatically selects a new artwork when it was previously missing.
That way, you get the best of both worlds. If you do want to change existing artwork, you can select change or browse, and it will give you the most up to date listing of artwork available after a refresh without messing with your existing selection.
Sometimes I wonder how xbmc devs deal with that issue (or whether they experience it at all). They usually recommend against external scrapers and tell us to use the internal one. But the internal one has that really annoying behavior which rears its ugly head every time a new season of a show starts.