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2014-06-24, 03:31
(This post was last modified: 2014-06-25, 03:11 by seamusmcaffrey.)
hello,
I'm trying to figure out how to add extra fanarts to my shows - this appears to happen through "artwork downloader" and the wiki for it says there's options to grab new artwork vs using local etc etc. i imagine this would pop up different large backgrounds (or function like a slideshow) when you highlight a show - but maybe that thought is incorrect.
anyways, i'm confused because i'm not seeing how to get to these options to set which options you want to get the artwork downloader to grab images for you. it says it's in addons settings but i can't even find the app there (i have verified under programs that it's installed), can someone give me the EXACT path they take to get to the settings for this?
thanks!
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From the home window, you will have a 'add-on' button,(perhaps you need to turn this on in skin settings?) that should open up icons for various program add-ons, one of which should be Artwork Downloader at whihc point the keyboard 'c' command will be bring up the add-on settings menu (right mouse click with the icon in focus also does this task)
Your first paragraph is essentially correct, using extrafanart produces images in an extrafanart folder, and rotates the images when the target folder is in focus. You do need to turn on 'use extrafanart 'in the skin, ditto for logo's, disc art, and season posters.
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2014-06-24, 04:06
(This post was last modified: 2014-06-24, 04:06 by seamusmcaffrey.)
thanks... i was getting extra dumb and didn't realize i could right click those menus. i can access the options now.
that being said when i click it, it doesn't seem to run anything new. i tried adding "extrafanart" folders to a few places within a folder with media - after turning on the extrafanart option (the root of a show, within a season of a show...)... and nothing happens. it comes up eventually (with no action on my part) and a message that says "download aborted" with a 0 downloads tally. something i'm missing? my shows do have artwork and metadata, so it's not like it's nothing... i'd just like to enable a few different shots, or different art per season or something like that.
usually when i click it it just does nothing. it comes up and says "searching for artwork" and then nothing happens.
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Yes - I definitely have some naming issues still lying around... I'm trying to do a bit of everything at once, there are definitely areas of my library that need cleaning.
Like I said it does seem to have run successfully for a number of shows, though I didn't initially realize it was doing it.
Caching of artwork makes sense, I'm sure that's what I'm stumbling over. xbmc with normal amounts of artwork works fine though- I did set it to maximum of 5 artworks but it's still quite a few shows that I had it download for... I'm running this on an eeebox pc with 1.86 GHz Atom D2550 and integrated Nvidia GeForce 610M graphics, I assume that'll never be enough to run "extrafanart" properly for all shows.
if that assumption is true, is there an easy way to reverse the download process that I just did so that i'm not killing the cache? or should i just go back through my folders and delete the "extrafanart" folder in each one?
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Yeah... It's been years since I've done any major cleaning and organizing and my shows have really degenerated in structure. I had an old unraid permissions issue that prevented me from properly modifying things which i finally got around to fixing...
And - OK! At least I know what the problem is, and that's fine. I just thought some extra art would be nice, didn't think about the caching ramifications.
I'll give that program a whirl and report back if I have any major issues, thanks for the help!