2014-02-01, 08:41
1. It means AD will read local artwork if it exists, and it will create local artwork if it doesn't exist (which isn't much good if you only want AD to read what is already there, but not create anything new).
2. You poster and fanart would have been scraped by the standard movie scraper - you don't need AD to scrape local poster/fanart.
3. Processing efficiency is an area that could be improved...
4. If you don't enable "Use local files" it won't download anything, AD will just create artwork entries for your movies in the media library that reference remote (web-based) artwork. If you do enable "Use local files", any new artwork will be downloaded and written alongside your movies, and artwork entries for these local files added to your media library. Note that the filenames created for local artwork will only be suitable if your movies are stored single movies per folder, you'll just get junk artwork added to your media library if you have multiple movies per folder.
2. You poster and fanart would have been scraped by the standard movie scraper - you don't need AD to scrape local poster/fanart.
3. Processing efficiency is an area that could be improved...
4. If you don't enable "Use local files" it won't download anything, AD will just create artwork entries for your movies in the media library that reference remote (web-based) artwork. If you do enable "Use local files", any new artwork will be downloaded and written alongside your movies, and artwork entries for these local files added to your media library. Note that the filenames created for local artwork will only be suitable if your movies are stored single movies per folder, you'll just get junk artwork added to your media library if you have multiple movies per folder.