[win88ice2004]

Hey Guys,

just switched over and started using Ember, and I love it! Great work and much thanks to everyone involed!

I have question regarding actor images. I have all of my actor images stored in a single folder as shown below. I did this because i was using an old Imagesbyname folder from when i came over from Mediabrowser a bunch of years ago. I have just never felt the need to update until now.

Cast Images
------->Christian Bale
----------------->folder.jpg

So here's my questions:

1. If i store all actor images in a .actors folder, wouldn't there be a significant amount of wasted space for say Christian Bale in every movie he is in. I would think it would be more practical to store once and reference in each .nfo to this location.

2. Is there a way to use the imagesbyname folder in ember? I am not opposed to doing the .actors folder if that is standard practice, it just seems redundant as mentioned above.

You have raised a very valid point .. BUT I am afraid its going to be near to impossible ( and I am not even a coder/ skinner)
a centralised actors thumbnails folder could work imho But would require extra coding and ore potential of things getting more complicated & getting buggy...The Only benchmark i can think of is Media Browser.. Now its been many many years since I've dabbled with Media Browser ( frankly never looked Back once started with XBMC )but I think if I recall it creates a centralised actors thumbnails but I am not sure how individual addons are then coded or setup to utilise that . Looks & sounds more complicated . I am not sure whether dan agrees or not .

Ya i think that was my problem from the beginning. When i got into this whole media center thing some 5-6 years ago, i started with Media Browser. Only to switch almost immediately to XMBC when i learned the potential. However since i already had all my metadata (including actor images) already downloaded, i just found a way to make it work on xbmc. For metadata, I have been using MetaBrowser since the start. I am like most people on here and do not know the code behind the work, just how it all comes together and how to work the software. Metabrowser allows me to add a folder to show where my actor images are. Then my movie.nfo shows the actor images as a link to this folder. Everything then pulls in XBMC when i use local images/files as expected. Obviously with my change over to Ember this became the issue. Truth be told, if i need to move everything over to be compatable with Ember i am 100% okay with it. I am moving to Ember for obvious reasons either way, I guess i am just trying to understand the logistics for me own sanity more than anything else, and see if this is a possible feature/future request. Isn't customization fun!