2015-07-08, 00:29
I believe I understand what you've explained. On a new install Kodi won't recognize the extra art with - names on it's own and offer them as local art to add manually. I have to run the add-on, with the simple file names, for a minimum of 1 movie. That "activates" Kodi to know I want to use these extra arts with it's names but the add-on still only looks for the simple names. And of course if there is no local art with the simple names the add-on will search the web and download things automatically, which I very much do not want it to do.
So if that's how things work, I do not understand your following statement.
Why would I not want to use local files? I take a lot of time when adding a new movie to my library and I ensure it has all the artwork I want plus trailer and so on before I scrape it into my library. The only things I don't add manually myself are the poster and fanart for most things as the auto scraping tends to find good artwork for them. Once the movie is scraped and any changes to title, sort order, rating, studio etc. are made I export to individual art and nfo files. Then if something happens to my database I don't have to do anything but quickly re-scrape everything again.
It would be fantastic if Kodi added extra art automatically, even if it required selecting certain settings upon installation. I'm just trying to streamline the process for my dad and friends who aren't the most tech-savvy. So trying to understand as much as I can to find out what is and isn't possible.
Thanks!
So if that's how things work, I do not understand your following statement.
(2015-07-08, 00:00)Milhouse Wrote: You mean you want Artwork Downloader to support the movie-name prefix naming convention - it's been asked for before, and I believe is on the list of things to do. Until it is supported you should not enable "Use local files".
Why would I not want to use local files? I take a lot of time when adding a new movie to my library and I ensure it has all the artwork I want plus trailer and so on before I scrape it into my library. The only things I don't add manually myself are the poster and fanart for most things as the auto scraping tends to find good artwork for them. Once the movie is scraped and any changes to title, sort order, rating, studio etc. are made I export to individual art and nfo files. Then if something happens to my database I don't have to do anything but quickly re-scrape everything again.
It would be fantastic if Kodi added extra art automatically, even if it required selecting certain settings upon installation. I'm just trying to streamline the process for my dad and friends who aren't the most tech-savvy. So trying to understand as much as I can to find out what is and isn't possible.
Thanks!