[Batiatus]

I guess I'm not sure what the issue is. Maybe because I don't use AD to download anything. I use a media manager to download all artwork and name it as I specify (without movie names), and just have to use AD to get the local files into the database (although it still says it's "downloading". So I never export artwork from Kodi. Maybe that's avoiding confusion that I never knew existed.

Likely. Last I checked AD used a simple naming syntax for every media file. Every movie uses logo.pgn for the clearlogo, for example. While XBMC/Kodi uses the file name in the syntax so every movie gets MOVIETITLE-clearlogo.png. and so on. This makes it much easier to sort your files if needed as they are each now specific to a certain movie rather than all being named the same.

When you download your extra art, through some media manager or using AD in Kodi, you use the AD syntax. When it's imported into Kodi and then you export your library to individual with artwork (which you should do incase something goes wrong, saves having to start your library all over from scratch) Kodi 'sometimes' exports the extra art but with the filename syntax.

Also, if you want to manually add any extra art through Kodi and not use the AD auto downloader/installer, you need to have the Kodi syntax artwork in the folder, otherwise it won't be seen. When you have a library that's really big running AD just for 1 new movie slows down the system because it scans everything. So again, 2 different syntaxs are needed meaning 2 versions of each file in the folder. It was a HUGE pain when I decided to start adding all the extra art to my library after it was well over 1200 movies.

Makes more sense to me to use the Kodi syntax but I'm not the developer of this add-on so I'm not sure if if can or why it can't. So in the mean time I still add 2 versions of each piece of art to my new movie folders. the disk space doesn't concern me but I'm just OCD enough to keep wanting it to be more 'clean'.