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2009-08-10, 12:55
(This post was last modified: 2009-08-10, 13:00 by stokedfish.)
Hola, I'm wondering how much time you guys are willing to invest when it comes to music and movie fanart, album covers, thumbnails, etc. Do you use library mode with all the goofy shizzle and stuff or is it too much work for you to get there?
I myself will have a movie collection with 100% fanart and 100% thumbnails by tomorrow. Some more work today and I'm done. It is very small though, only 65 movies. Nothing to be proud of, really. But still nice. Yay!
When it comes to music, my files are 100% correctly tagged and every single track has an embedded album art. I'm not sure it's worth the time to go the fanart route though as I've got many obscure artists in my library. That would be tons of work.
So what about you guys? Fill me in!
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i'm 100% sure you will be collecting fanart for all the artists in your library in no time.
since you took the time (and that must've been a hell of a job) to write your own personal reviews for every album, you're not gonna tell me it's too much work to collect fanart. ;-p
for artist thumbs, the discogs.com scraper seems to do the job pretty well.
artist fanart is a different story, so i guess you'll have to go the same manual route as i did: use google.
it took me about a week to get everything complete, but it's definitely worth the effort. it makes browsing your collection a much more pleasant experience with all those pretty pictures on the screen.
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2009-08-11, 06:49
(This post was last modified: 2009-08-11, 06:53 by krypt2nite.)
I have 2355 Movies. 2355 movies have cover art. 330 do not have fanart. I refuse to use screen shots for fanart so it might be a while before I have 100% fanart. Only thing that really bothers me is not having cover art. It's not added to the library without it. (Ember Media Manager)
Just about 50 TV shows. All with fanart, thumbs, etc.
And I know this sounds ridiculous but I just looked in my Winamp Media Library and have 1795 albums with 23379 tracks. That's only the edited/properly tagged/art found music. Each album has album art (mostly 600x600 albumartdownloader, foobar plugin) and proper tags. (TagScanner)
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98% of my movies have thumbs and fanart, 100% of my Tv shows have thumbs and fanart.
I've yet to touch my music files. They all nearly have album covers, but there are some bizarre ones that do not and I'm sure finding fanart is not going to be the easiest.
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2009-08-17, 10:23
(This post was last modified: 2009-08-17, 10:24 by thomash72.)
I've been able to get close to 100% on local fanart.jpg for my artists by making a 1920 x 1080 canvas in Photoshop, and adding smaller images to this canvas. Since I am not able to find high resolution images for all the minor/obscure artists, this was to me an acceptable workaround. If you have some basic Photoshop skills, it is easy to get the final HD image to look good. I typically use the clone brush with some transparent effect.
My only struggle for perfection when it comes to my music collection is now to get XBMC to support music singles...
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100% of my movies have fanart.
i use XBMC nfoscrape.exe and of course a few more obscure titles didnt have fanart but i used photoshop and found some decent jpg's and edited the nfo's and added fanart manually.
all my albums have albumart, but not an artist thumb.