[aptalca]

Hi topfs2,

I didn't realize you were working on restructuring the whole "scraping" in xbmc. I had a couple of suggestions, sparked by minor things that have been bugging me from time to time. I think those suggestions would really help a lot of people not have to rely on third party media managers.

It is about partial scraper updates. As you know, the scraped options for metadata become out-of-date after a while. Or they are simply non-existent if the library was imported from nfo's and local artwork. It is annoying when a new season for a show starts, and there is no season thumb in the library for the new season, because it simply didn't exist when the show was originally scraped. Rescraping the show to get the new season thumb often results in all the other thumbs and fanart changing as well.

I suggested partial scraper updates just to retrieve the latest scraper results (without a full rescrape) that could be done on demand or automatically as a background service.

Anyway, you can find my full rant here: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=136411

Thanks and good luck with your project