(2022-11-28, 21:47)RB0135 Wrote:

(2022-11-28, 21:24)latts9923 Wrote: @RCBodyslam
OK...I know now why you're not seeing your artwork after scraping. Your artwork goes in the Artist folder...not in the extrafanart subfolder. Only place the fanart images you want to see when using the "EXTRA FANART" art setting in the extrafanart folder. When you manually select your thumbnail, are you going to the Artist info screen and selecting CHOOSE ART?

@latts9923 , @RCBodyslam - As of late, I am having just as much difficulty as RCBodySlam. Something is now terribly mixed up for importing Albums. Now, I found in the Artist Slideshow config for the Addon, you can turn on"use extrafanart folder" and I seemed to have to have that on then all local images were scraped properly for an assortment of songs, BUT, not for Albums. 

At one stage, if Kodi scraped an Album and I had missing Artwork, it would retrieve it and place it in the Album Directory for the Album (such as the folder, disc image, etc) and for the Artist Directory (I have a special location for "all music information"). This doesnt seem to happen now with any scraper. For Example, my structure for my Music Directory is exactly like Kodi recommendations and that is an Artist, then their Albums in a directory each underneath the artist. Kodi seems to scrap the music fine, but doesnt load any Album Artwork. I have Maximum artwork turned on in the settings.

I too have completely cleaned everything (my special musicinfo directory that I point the addons and Kodi too, as well as removed the music sources, and music.db file).

For anyone (even @latts9923 ) that says it works for them, do you mind sharing your settings for Music (such as which scraper, prefer online, etc) and does it download the artowrk to the correct Artwork directory. It seems the scrapers just download to the Kodi DB although the Team Kodi Generic Album Scraper doco says it will place missing artwork it in the Album directory.

(2022-11-29, 01:09)RCBodyslam Wrote: At this rate, I ain't gonna have any hair left to pull out 😭I'm basically like a cartoon figure sticking my finger between my lips,moving it up and down really fast and going "bebebebebebebebebebe."😅

So this is how things currently stand.When I use an extra fanart folder, I can see all my artwork cycle in the window in Shelf and Magazine views, which is what I want. However, I have to select all my fanart individually because Kodi doesn't automatically populate  Fanart 1, 2 etc. Also, Extra Fanart doesn't show images from fanart tv even though I know there is art available. (I assume someone uploaded some AC/DC pics to them, lol) It only shows my one fanart.jpg image and that's all. Which I don't want.

When I *don't* use an extra fanart folder, and select " Show extra fanart in thumbnail" in Shelf and Magazine views, there's no window in the top right corner. When I deselect it, then I see my only my fanart.jpg image. But I do see extra fanart from fanart.tv in the background. And Kodi fills in Fanart1 and so on.

​​​​​I just want to be able to see the images I downloaded for my folders in the top window while also seeing Extra fanart from Fanart.tv. Without  having to pick fanart1 fanart2 myself. 😖 Maybe the fix for the bug will help with some of that.

(2022-11-29, 15:20)Chalklands Wrote:

(2022-11-29, 01:09)RCBodyslam Wrote: At this rate, I ain't gonna have any hair left to pull out 😭I'm basically like a cartoon figure sticking my finger between my lips,moving it up and down really fast and going "bebebebebebebebebebe."😅

So this is how things currently stand.When I use an extra fanart folder, I can see all my artwork cycle in the window in Shelf and Magazine views, which is what I want. However, I have to select all my fanart individually because Kodi doesn't automatically populate  Fanart 1, 2 etc. Also, Extra Fanart doesn't show images from fanart tv even though I know there is art available. (I assume someone uploaded some AC/DC pics to them, lol) It only shows my one fanart.jpg image and that's all. Which I don't want.

When I *don't* use an extra fanart folder, and select " Show extra fanart in thumbnail" in Shelf and Magazine views, there's no window in the top right corner. When I deselect it, then I see my only my fanart.jpg image. But I do see extra fanart from fanart.tv in the background. And Kodi fills in Fanart1 and so on.

​​​​​I just want to be able to see the images I downloaded for my folders in the top window while also seeing Extra fanart from Fanart.tv. Without  having to pick fanart1 fanart2 myself. 😖 Maybe the fix for the bug will help with some of that.

Hi @RCBodyslam 
As a test, I've just added a new artist to my library (A single Taylor Swift track).
Didn't add anything (images etc) except create an artist folder and a sub folder for the album the track was from (Taylor Swift/Lover). I then made sure the tags were fine in Mp3Tag.
Opened Kodi and let it update my music library with the generic music scraper. Kodi created and populated an extrafanart folder and an information folder.
It populated the Album folder with: thumb, discart, back art etc. 
It populated the Artist folder with: fanart, fanart1, fanart2, fanart3 and thumb
All working fine when extra fanart setting is set to on: Images cycle through in fullscreen music viz and on the background when on the Magazine 3d screen, although the top right picture is static (I've never noticed that one cycle ever though?). Discart is showing as expected as is cover, back art, banner etc.
If I select Artwork Helper Fanart, everything is the same EXCEPT in full screen it sticks on the fanart image.
Is that what happens to you?

(2022-11-29, 05:58)wags1 Wrote: You don’t have to have your Artist Fanart in your individual Artist folders that also contain music. In fact I would recommend against it. I have a completely separate folder just for artist artwork. If you set Kodi up that way and point to that separate artwork folder, then as it gathers artwork it will create a sub folder for each artist and then inside that sub folder will be all the artwork for that artist. I keep it that way so that I have a folder that contains only music files. At one time I did have the artwork mixed in with the music files but I manually pulled all that out so I would have just music files and then a separate folder for artwork. I keep both music files and artwork files on a Synology NAS.

(2022-11-29, 15:49)latts9923 Wrote: @RCBodyslam
@wags1
@Chalklands
I completed a similar test to Chalklands with the Universal Artist Scraper and the band AC/DC so I could check out the artwork problem for RCBodyslam. I did not have AC/DC in my library, so this was a fresh scrape. I expected to see the clearlogo, fanart, etc. in the Artist folder, but after completion of the import KODI created an "AC_DC" folder in my Artist Information Folder and only downloaded the clearart and thumb image. I have all artwork settings enabled in Universal Artist Scraper.

(2022-11-30, 02:24)RCBodyslam Wrote:

(2022-11-29, 05:58)wags1 Wrote: You don’t have to have your Artist Fanart in your individual Artist folders that also contain music. In fact I would recommend against it. I have a completely separate folder just for artist artwork. If you set Kodi up that way and point to that separate artwork folder, then as it gathers artwork it will create a sub folder for each artist and then inside that sub folder will be all the artwork for that artist. I keep it that way so that I have a folder that contains only music files. At one time I did have the artwork mixed in with the music files but I manually pulled all that out so I would have just music files and then a separate folder for artwork. I keep both music files and artwork files on a Synology NAS.

I think when I set up my next music library, I'm gonna give this method a try. Sounds like it can go smoother than it did this time, lol. Thanks for the tip!👍