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Reviving an old thread, but only relebvent one I could find without starting another one:
Does anyone know whats going on with HTBackdrops.com? It has been down for over a month now. It is one of the better established sites for XBMC for fanart and such. It is closed permanently, site problem... any ideas?
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no issues whatsoever in the south east of the uk !!!!
Looks like you may need to have a word with your ISP
btw out of interest any issues with other sites tvdb/imdb/fanart.tv/tmdb or is it just this one rogue site ?
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2013-05-10, 20:00
(This post was last modified: 2013-05-10, 20:03 by JohnWPB.)
It is JUST HTbackdrops. I have never had this problem before. I see posts now and again about people having problems at work, using proxies, ISP blockage and such. This is a first for me! Just an FYI, I am a computer tech, and have worked in IT for a couple of different companies, so I kinda know what I am doing. I do NOT know everything, but am an "advanced user" I would have to say.
I just contacted Tobias over at HTBackdrops via email. Hopefully they can shed some light on the situation.
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wierd stuff - I have no answer other than good luck with the e-mail
let me know how you get on (a bit of a computer tech although leaning towards graphics these days) but am still interested on the outcome
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Hi,
does someone have an update to this thread ?
I have the same problem. Can't reacht htbackdrops.com from my side....
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not working my end either - hmmmmm
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I just went to htbackdrops.com and I get a "site suspended" page from hostgator. That would lead me to believe that the site has died a quiet death. If so, that's unfortunate. That leaves Artist Slideshow with one one source of images (Last.FM), at least until XBMC 13 comes out with (hopefully) support for MusicBrainz ID. From what I've seen, I need that ID if I'm going to add any other download options for Artist Slideshow.
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I came to the same result. No htbackdrops.com anymore. Maybe fanart.tv could be added as another source.
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2013-06-15, 14:44
(This post was last modified: 2013-06-15, 14:44 by kiwijunglist.)
If it's about money then maybe we can try and scrape together some cash for their site. If they had a donation page, then a single post on facebook and XBMC homepage blog entry might be able to drum up enough $5 donations, especially if MP & Meedios and anyone else using the scraper did the same.
Has anyone heard anything official?
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I haven't heard anything, but after a month of it being down I think it's safe to assume its gone.
If you're looking for a home for 1920x1080 images, I would suggest fanart.tv. They do music artists as well as TV, and I'm adding support for that site to Artist Slideshow. If the artist isn't in their system, you have to create the artist using their MusicBrainz ID, so if the artist doesn't have a MusicBrainz ID that is an extra step.
Fanart.tv also already has a donate button and an indicator of how far from their annual goal, so I'd suggest donating if you use artist images a great deal to help make sure this one sticks around.
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I have a giant collection of music prescraped so I'm pretty good. Yes fanart.tv seems like the next best site. It would be nice if we could get a hold of the site owner so the existing database is not wasted. There is a lot of content that was on htbackdrops that is not available on fanart.tv