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I'm trying to avoid going to a setup where I need to manually manage the folders. I'm still figuring out how this works, but if possible I'd prefer to be using folders that are populating themselves with art as new series are added.
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I'm using Art Downloader to grab art for my new xbmc library but I notice a lot of the logos, clear art and disk art are in the wrong language (German) even when English is available. Poster art has all been correct so far. The default language is set to English. How do I set language to English for the logos etc.?
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I'm sure I'm missing something. There must be some way to get Artwork Downloader to down load art automatically when new videos are added? Or else get batch downloads of missing art for all videos? Either would be better than manually downloading for each video one at a time.
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Thanks for the heads up. I may drop my local scraper then and just start using that method. Media Center Master (my local scraper) causes me so many headaches. After my last run with it, XBMC decided to blatantly ignore about half the nfo files it created. Still haven't figured out why. A few months ago it started creating all the nfo's as hidden files for some dang reason that i still can't comprehend.
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It should show a progress window, as it goes through each show/movie you currently have scanned in.
Then, after checking each show, it goes back and goes through all the ones it identified as missing artwork and downloads it. This process should like very similar to when you run it on one movie.
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2013-08-14, 18:11
(This post was last modified: 2013-08-14, 18:16 by capfuturo.)
Good evening wgstarks,
Could you please run a test defining just one source as your movie source with just a couple of movies in it, previously stripped from all fanart (poster, clear logo, etc) that might be present in the movie folders along with the video files. Define the content of this source as movies to be scanned recursively and deselect 'contain movie that matches the folder name'. Just make sure your video file follows the naming convention <movie> (year).ext, e.g., Time Masters (1982).mkv. Please make sure you can find the movie titles in TMDB and at least one name matches (original or english name) and the year. Make sure there are posters and fanart (backdrop) listed for your movies in TMDB. Your folder could also be named according to same convention, but in the meantime we want to just run a quick test and make things simple to double check whether the artwork is being downloaded or not.
Make sure your internet connection is working and proceed to update the library. If you have poster and backdrop then things are working properly. Proceed with artwork downloader to download any clear logo or CDart or extra fan art available for you movies in fanart.tv (make sure there are, so this test makes sense). Attention: 1) Make sure the option 'show cdart' is selected from the viewtype settings that can be called upon the left pane (where you also call the artwork downloader from); 2) artwork downloader will download the image with the highest rating or the latest image of each class; it doesn't distinguish between languages because there is no way to define such attribute within fanart.tv, as far as I know. If the process brings in a logo with words in a foreign language then I advise you to download the image manually from fanart.tv and add it to your movie folder according to naming conventions or use the built-in 'download extra art' from the Information pane of each movie. The latter allows you to browse all fanart available and choose the one that best suits you and would be desirable that you check it is working for you.
Report back on the state of thing.
All best,
CF
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I'll try and set this up this weekend. I can say right now that I don't have any trouble downloading art for a single video except that I get the wrong language occasionally. I'll have to check the settings for "contain movies that matches folder names". All of my video names are in the format nameofmovie (year) videosource.ext (example: A Good Day to Die Hard (2013) bluray.mkv) in an enclosing folder with matching name. The only other file in each folder is an NFO file occasionally where xbmc had trouble iding the movie or special sorting or sets is involved. And an "Extras" subfolder that contains bonus features for a few Bluray backups. This probably applies to less than 10% of my collection.