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Ha ... And I thought I was the only one having troubles understanding the whole local artwork thing with artwork downloader ...
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2013-09-16, 03:00
(This post was last modified: 2013-09-16, 03:01 by voip-ninja.)
I'm having a problem (again) with the artwork downloader not seeming to pick up new TV show season posters (which have been generated locally with EMM).
When I checked Artwork Downloader settings I noticed that at some point doing various updates "use local files" had been disabled, I re-enabled it but still not picking up existing local artwork for seasons.
I'm running OpenElec 3.2 and Aeon Nox 4.0.
Here's an example of what I'm running into;
/Homeland/Season 1/
/Homeland/Season 2/
/Homeland/season01-poster.jpg
/Homeland/season02-poster.jpg
Season 1 poster is displayed from a previous successful scan, but season 2 poster never shows up.
I run artwork downloader (with local files enabled)... it scans everything, and after it is done it says "zero files downloaded".
What am I missing? I've spent the past hour today trying to figure this out but am drawing a blank. Do I need to do a full debug to get this sorted out?
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2013-09-17, 15:08
(This post was last modified: 2013-09-17, 15:09 by Buzniak.)
AWD needs to be fixed, maybe staff are busy, or they can't be stuffed replying. I want to say busy.
GUI mode shows no local art at all. I have it set to use local art but still no go.
Just fix it or charge people for XBMC so you're obligated to fix these things asap.
If XBMC was more stable i would pay 10-15 bux for a copy.
Fix AWD please, because obviously there's something not right here since 12.0.19 but 12.0.18 was fine, can't roll back for some reason.
Marcos Q should write a app similar to XBMC, I'll buy that.
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Mickyd
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Buzniak,
You have to realize that most people that develop the 3rd party add-ons for XBMC do so in their own time, in fact I think everything developed in connection to XBMC is done so as a hobby more than an actual job. Oh and were this product to become paid then add-ons like this probably wouldn't exist because a paid product would not be open source and as such someone could not spend their own time developing a plug in for the paid version.
AWD is great, but will have issues no matter what considering that every installation of XBMC is probably unique i.e. has been modified by the owner to their own tastes so surely not every possible hardware / software configuration can be acceptance tested when developing patches / upgrades and as such we may experience issues.
Martin, personally from me thanks for the add-on. I don't believe I've experienced the problems regarding local art, but I just use XMBC at a low level i.e. I initially use movie companion and the when added to XBMC I use 'extra artwork' to update / refresh as movie companion still puts all the artwork in the VIDEO_TS folder and we know that Frodo doesn't look there anymore.
Mike.
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2013-09-17, 20:19
(This post was last modified: 2013-09-17, 20:20 by voip-ninja.)
Well, the software is free, but many of us choose to be financial donors and try to support the project that way, sometimes because our coding skills truly suck.
It is still frustrating though when you can't get something to work.... especially something that used to be optional (artwork downloader) that now appears to be a necessity.
It seems to me that in the case of TV episodes there is some kind of issue with XBMC updating the library (adding seasons and episodes for example) but Album Artwork Downloader believing that everything is still up to date.
I'm willing to bet that if I completely blow away one of my problem shows from the database and add it back, then run artwork downloader that everything will show up properly. Unfortunately doing so will result in the loss of all of my season watched markers which kind of stinks.
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Martin,
Thanks for the response. I've noticed the reference to refreshing a single show but when I select the contextual menu for a single show or season in Aeon Nox I don't have a selection for "refresh". Is there some other way to do it?
I will get a log of what is going on and post it here because definitely I have added new seasons of shows, provided artwork that's formatted correctly and not have AD pick it up.