(2013-09-01, 10:34)TRaSH Wrote: (2013-09-01, 00:47)capfuturo Wrote: Good night giftie,
..... There is plenty of music material actually not present in fanart.tv,.....
Thanks in advance,
CF
why don't you contribute your local fanart to fanart.tv ?
this way you help others and your self also.
Hi TRaSH,
Yes, I personally do contribute whenever I have material or I can design extrafanart up to the minimum quality standards of Fanart.tv, which are important to protect and observe. Sometimes the only images currently available, whilst still looking good, they do not meet the criteria of fanart.tv due to random pixelation or artefacts that appear after excessive compression of the main sources, and therefore not suitable to share with the world via fanart.tv. I am sure you know what I am talking about. Sometimes the custom fanart is just private and intended to be shared amongst family members, friends or business colleagues only.
There are also other case scenarios:
1) Cases, just as I described to 'giftie' on post
#1832, in which the artist tagged by Picard is shown on both XBMC and cdART Manager as a composed name resulting of the gathering of 2 or more artists, like 'The Jacksons and Mick Jagger', for which there is no ArtistID since they have their own artistID for which they are credited individually (
see here in MB). Thus there is no way to input fanart on fanart.tv for this case scenarios. However we could still find or produce beautiful custom fanart that shows the gathering of these artists when browsing the music library. The latter is what I have asked giftie about, and hopefully will get some guidance on the matter.
2) Cases in which one can't just upload the material to fanart.tv due to the non-commercial, non-official nature of it. I work in a production in which we have to film several plays, shows and also record live music concerts that do not become official releases to the market (or not yet) due to contractual terms, but we need to keep them labeled and presented within our media centre just as they were official releases, with all their metadata and fanart we create in our offices to best showcase them internally, specially during team meetings or meetings with producers that need to see a very well presented material if they are thinking on investing on a further production. The members of the team (actors, producers, set designers, directors, choreographer, lighting assistants, sound engineers, etc.) can watch and review this material, and work on it, in our main media centre or they can ask us for the media pack of a specific film or music recording, so they can add it to their own media centres at home. Therefore the use of local files for extrafanart is as important to us as the use of online files. A simple and least time-consuming way to achieve both purposes is desirable as well, so they can work in tandem, for both custom user generated material and publicly available online.
All best,
CF