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giftie
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Regarding artwork not showing up:
XBMC developers have changed how artwork is handled in Frodo. While the video side of the database(or Library) add-ons have the ability to change and set artwork, for music it is not the case.
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If cdART doesn't download anything art wise for a particular album (or albums) you can place your own image (folder.jpg) in the album folder, and/or use a program capable of adding images directly to the tags (Like MediaMonkey, MP3Tag&Rename, etc, etc). XBMC should display the art from either of these methods.
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2013-01-07, 13:57
(This post was last modified: 2013-01-07, 14:03 by Ghostdivision.)
This is just a general comment/suggestion i know i mentioned it before, but would there be anyway we could get latest test updates from a repository so when new versions are released we can update automatically in xbmc. I know you mentioned this is all test builds but they all seem to work. I dont even know if that official build 1.6.5 still works anymore... All my other addons work well and update frequently inside xbmc which is nice, except cdart, I dont always check logs, and cdart i noticed was getting a json error for weeks populating my log, i last visited this thread and grabbed 2.7.5 a few weeks back. So i go to this thread and update it manually and it works fine. It would be nice though if we can get constant updates so we are always in sync and everything is working, I dont think many casual users visit the forum frequently for builds and often times i just dont remember or think of coming here to check for new versions in case things change or something breaks.
Just a suggestion because everything in cdart works amazing, its incredible, I love the program, i just feel like i spend as much time trying to maintain it and grab the latest builds on here as i do enjoying the program itself.
Perhaps you could create a test version repo for eden and frodo for us who constantly want the latest updates? I dont know if thats possible just a suggestion.
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General question about manually adding cdart.pngs.... My music library contains ~5,500 albums, of which, CD ArtManager was able to grab about 900 cdart images. Partly because of album naming (i.e., Revolver [UK] vs. Revolver, et. al), multiple MBID versions, etc. So far, I am still at a loss on how to get CD Art Manager to grab cdart for an album that I have, that I know is a commercial release, and is on fan art.tv. Choosing alternate MBID #s is confusing and scanning my ~78,000 track library takes over 22 hours... so, I have resorted to making my own cdart.png files. I am currently up to the letter B in my library and have done a couple of hundred so far. My question is, after I manually place the cdart.png file in the album folder, will cdArt Manager eventually be able to "see" it? I ask because I particularly like the backup feature and I have multiple XBMC clients running. I like that it creates a backup with ARTIST/ALBUM.png backup structure. I use this for my skins to display. Currently, I have file sync utilities running all over the place to propagate the changes. If I do a cd ArtManager scan or a backup after I am done, will my cd arts that I've created be backed up by cd art manager?
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How do i get rid of CDArt manager seeing old files that I use to be mapped to?
Basically I had this large library which was crap - named wrong - mixed folders --- basic crap
I started to organize things and re-mapped my drive, uninstalled cd art manager, disabled re-enabled re-insatlled deleted textures.db ... no luck
Everytime it comes up with 572 artists - and not the new 12 that i have organized ...
any ideas ?
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delete the addon data for cdart downloader, in the userdata folder.
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