2018-05-12, 00:01
A pair of PRs (13848 Music 13859 Video) will add local artwork files to the corresponding library databases as arttypes named from the artwork filenames. Advancedsettings is proposed as a location for whitelisting filenames to be scanned as library art (and hence, generating new arttypes).
The goal is to reduce the need for "helpers" to manage extended artwork for skins. But for this to work, there needs to be some community agreement on extended arttype names. An immediate issue is the use of "disc", "discart", or "cdart" as an arttype. Additional potential issues include "logo" and "clearlogo".
I don't know what the appropriate venue is to sort this out, as it affects addon devs, skinners, JSON consumers, and users. In the future it will also affect scrapers. It seems kind of "above my pay grade".
scott s.
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The goal is to reduce the need for "helpers" to manage extended artwork for skins. But for this to work, there needs to be some community agreement on extended arttype names. An immediate issue is the use of "disc", "discart", or "cdart" as an arttype. Additional potential issues include "logo" and "clearlogo".
I don't know what the appropriate venue is to sort this out, as it affects addon devs, skinners, JSON consumers, and users. In the future it will also affect scrapers. It seems kind of "above my pay grade".
scott s.
.