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2015-08-17, 12:47
(This post was last modified: 2015-08-17, 12:49 by Namoi.)
It also grabs the extrafanarts AFAIK if located in an extrafanart folder as is seems.
I indeed disabled the "download" option for extrafanarts within AD as i use fanart1, 2, 3.... .jpg and AD uses the provider id for naming them, and it still works : ie the skins are able to find them so my guess is it works without AD.
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Being pedantic, caching is a completely separate process and one in which AD is not involved. All artwork will be cached eventually, but by the GUI when the artwork is displayed and not by AD. The database that AD updates (though not for Extrafanart/Extrathumbs) is MyVideosXX, ie. the media library, and not the cache (which is Textures13.db). I'm assuming this is what you meant, but using the term "cache" is confusing as it has a somewhat specific use in Kodi.
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One more question.
How does one go about changing the fanart after AD downloads one that one doesn't like and make sure they keep the new one locally?
Let's say I have AD download all the fanart with the "use local" option (otherwise it doesn't actually download anything to disk).
Then I go in and change one of the fanart in the kodi library. The local fanart on disk is still the unwanted one downloaded by AD.
If I export, it doesn't overwrite the AD one, because they use different naming schemes.
If I use AD again, without overwrite, I am still stuck with the unwanted local fanart.
If I use AD again with overwrite, it again downloads an unwanted one to replace the last unwanted one.
Sure, I can keep using it, but once I rescrape the library for any reason, I am stuck with the unwanted fanart.
Any ideas?
Thanks
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vbat99
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Or use media companion which will place your selected artwork with the movie...cheeky off topic...lol
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What type of image is art type "thumb"? Haven't seen any references to that filename, unless your talking about SxxExx -thumb.jpg. ??
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"thumb" is used by tvshow episodes.
There's also "thumbnail" which is used by the Music database, for album covers and artist portraits.
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OK, got it. Thought that person was talking about new artwork type like logo, landscape, clearart etc. Phew.
When you talk about music being thumbnail, do you mean extension being. tbn?
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Most of my video "thumb" art types are auto-generated by Kodi during scan of episodes and musicvideos by grabbing a video frame from the video file (if video setting "extract thumbnails and video information" is set). There's also an option for extracting chapter thumbs. I haven't seen that in action, maybe Milhouse has.
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