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Hey folks,
My understanding of the wiki is that, in order to automatically set the thumbnail for an individual item, you set the thumbnail image as *file name*-poster.[jpg/png]
I've done this, but it doesn't work. What am I doing wrong? There are just too many files that I am working with for me to do this manually.
Any help appreciated, cheers.
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What exactly are you trying to do? If you are trying to setup posters/fanart for your movies/TV shows/music, then you can do this automatically for all of them in one go via scrapers when you add the source. You don't have to do it manually for each item.
Please explain clearly what you want to achieve and someone will be able to tell you how to do it.
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I think he just needs to do a "folder source" Scan from within XBMC..let it do its thing then deal with missing artwork later.
I have had to manually do this over the last few weeks. And there is plenty of good threads on it.
To tidy it up after a full library scan, I have used lightMediaManager, main reason is that it is faster then most of the others in interface operations.. (Once you have loaded the database).. It also will write the batch NFOs after you have done all your checking.
I had to work on over 850 movies but have them all sorted now. Just got to put the time into it as for sure you are going to get missing or some wrong movie scrapes..
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My understanding is that when you added the TV shows source it will have scraped the poster for each episode from the Internet (e.g. TVDB.org). To get it to use the relevant ones that you have created you will indeed have to redo each one manually by bringing up the information for each TV series episode and selecting 'choose art'.
Another option is to export your library, which will create .nfo files in which the poster will be specified, then you can edit the .nfo file and replace that name with the name of the thumbnail you have created.
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For an episode, you probably just want *filename*-thumb.jpg.
Reason is that it's unlikely you actually want a poster (portrait) style bit of art, and (more importantly) XBMC won't look for posters for episodes.
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You can have various season posters as shown in the wiki as well.
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And if you don;t fix the wiki it will be the same for the next user.
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Is there a way to change an scraped episode thumb to an extracted thumb? I got some old series which have crappy thumbs and i'd like to use a thumb extracted/created from meta data.
