2013-05-25, 05:56
(2013-05-24, 23:27)voip-ninja Wrote: Now you have to multiply the 24 hour query you are proposing by the 10's of thousands of users who all are running the software. It is still a lot of traffic being generated. Remember, there's not some rich guy running the sites that host artwork.... they are typically small operations with very limited funds and are supported by donation or advertising... the advertising does no good when a user hits them up and downloads art for an XBMC installation.
I think your looking at this wrong, instead of letting it run once a day, people are running it each and every time something is added, i have spoke to people over the months on here regarding this topic. I might add a bunch of movies and run it multiple times a day every time a movie or show is added, and in fact I do, where as if i could schedule it to run once a day, or 2-3 times a week i would just leave it at that. Your never going to completely reduce server load unless you scrap this addon altogether.
The problem I thought with server load came running the addon at startup/login feature, which could happen multiple times a day, in fact in our house it was happening 4 times a day at login, until i realized it was going way to much.
And I am aware of these server costs, I have donated to fanart.tv i have had discussions here a year ago already when automation was first removed about this issue with the costs of server, and I am in no way advocating making things worse on the servers.
Automation solution does not mean increase server load. If 24 hour intervals are to much allow us to schedule it a few days during the week. I just know several people love this addon and dont like running it manually every time something is added and that can also increase the frequency its being run. Tonight i added for instance 2 movies and a tv shows later, i ran it manually 3 times today. If it ran once at scheduled time I would just leave it to run then. Everything in xbmc can be automated except this addon unfortunately since last year. I am just offering a balance between some form automation and not taxing the servers.
Again just my opinion.