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I ran it and it seemed to work. It cached more than 14k items (mainly thumbs) and only showed 49 errors (also mainly thumbs).
However, my issue is not addressed yet. I am using Kodi as UPNP server for music. Unfortunately, Kodi only serves the albumart of albums that I have actually viewed in the Kodi interface. No idea what information is generated when the album is viewed, but this must be different than what the texture maintenance utility does. After running, still not all albumart is available over UPNP.
Very easy to replicate by trying to access Kodi music library via UPNP on VLC (IOS).
Any idea how this could be solved?
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Can you run "texturecache.py jd albums <albumname>" on the client you are using to access your UPNP content (where <albumname> is the name of an album you access using UPNP) and paste the results.
Texture Cache Maintenance Utility: Preload your texture cache for optimal UI performance. Remotely manage media libraries. Purge unused artwork to free up space. Find missing media. Configurable QA check to highlight metadata issues. Aid in diagnosis of library and cache related problems.
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Thanks for your quick reply. Unfortunately, my UPNP client is on an iphone. I tried two different clients (VLC for IOS and Glider) and result is consistent. When then hovering on the album in Kodi (in WIn 10) and re-opening the same album on my VLC client, the albuart shows up. The issue is replicable for me.
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Thanks. Got the issue then. It is indeed embedded artwork in MP3 tags. Would it solve my issue to extract the coverart? There are tools doing so, right?
Yup, I also posted in the UPNP thread, but on a separate topic. Would also be great to hear if you have a thought on this.
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Thanks. Was just trying to use the purge feature to delete all cache and start from scratch (using c for rebuild). Somehow, I cannot get the purge feature to work though. I tried both "texturecache.py purge" and "texturecache.py purge all", but both did not work. Any thoughts?
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I had an issue today with a band concert DVD that I created a MKV file out of. I did it when the DVD was first released so there may not have been an entry in the movie scraper at the time, and I have scanned the library probably 20 times since then and the file has never shown up in my library.
Today I manually navigated to the file, Settings > media > library > videos > video > [selected file] > information > refresh
Then all the information and artwork were downloaded, and it was finally added to my video library. It was pretty involved and I would think a vscan should have caught it in the last few months, but it never did. I add things and run vscan all the time.
Is there a texturecache command that will look for files not currently in the DB/library or specifically excluded and try to update and add them?
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I got a list of a few files, thank you, this is also from a remote NTFS filesystem, not exfat.
I tried the same for audio/music, but am getting an error, what would the proper command be?
i.e. # texturecache.py missing music Music <Music> is my source name
ERROR: music is not a valid media class
ERROR: audio is not a valid media class
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@J_E_F_F: texturecache.py missing songs Music
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thanks, never would have thought of songs lol