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Hi,
I have looked through the docs and searched this thread but I cant see if it is possible to run AB via the commandline with no user interaction?
I would like to run "add missing artwork for all items" periodically with no user interaction.
I have been mucking about with json-rpc and texture cache maintenance utility and while I am able to launch AB, a pop up displays asking what type of scan to complete.
Anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks
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2019-03-24, 06:02
(This post was last modified: 2019-03-24, 06:02 by chrissix666.)
Command line control is unknown to me, never heard about in AB.
But you can also control the most common ArtworkBeef functions through the skin, and provide the command with a time period or timestamp.
Or use a Media Manager and create a batch script from the Media Manager command to search for new artwork
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Hello, I'm currently running Kodi 18.1 on a Shield TV and have artwork beef setup to download art for my movies/tv/music to storage (works great!), but I am running into some strange behavior with movie sets that I can't seem to figure out. I'm trying to setup movie set artwork to download to storage using the "central directory" and "subfolder" setting. When I turn this on and run artwork beef folders are created for each movie set, however only one piece of artwork is stored in the folder. The other files are placed in the root central directory. Using the example from the wiki it looks something like this:
... /[central movie set info directory]/poster.jpg
... /[central movie set info directory]/Movie Collection Name/fanart.jpg
... /[central movie set info directory]/fanart1.jpg
This repeats resulting in these files getting written over many times and causing almost all the movie sets in my library to share the same artwork-- if for example the last set processed was xmen, and it overwrote [central movie set info directory]/poster.jpg, all the movie sets in my library would now have the xmen poster. It looks something like this:
... /[central movie set info directory]/Movie Collection 1 Name/fanart.jpg
... /[central movie set info directory]/Movie Collection 2 Name/banner.jpg
... /[central movie set info directory]/poster.jpg
... /[central movie set info directory]/fanart1.jpg
... /[central movie set info directory]/banner.jpg
... /[central movie set info directory]/fanart2.jpg
I can post logs once I get home later but thought I'd go ahead and post this incase anyone had an idea-- perhaps I am just doing something wrong?
If you have any ideas it would be appreciated! Cheers
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No doubt this has been brought up somewhere in the last 57 pages (although searched for 'orphaned' didn't reveal anything).
Would it be possible for this already awesome addon to be able to clean orphaned artwork for media that has been removed and deleted from the library. I often delete content after watching it once unless it has great replay value, and while I love all the fanart for backgrounds, all the old fanart from deleted content still continues to show up. It would be great to be able to have AB do a cleanup of all orphaned art and thumbs associated with content that is no longer in the library.
If I'm missing something and this functionality already exists then I'm eager to learn how to do this.
Thanks for one of the most useful addons in my system!!!
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Hi, is there a way to make the addon centralize all the artwork it downloads to certain folder? I mean, I don't like the extra jpgs that the addon stores along the video files so I would like to point X folder for Artwork Beef to store all the images there. Is there a way I could do this?
I don't know if I'm blind or something but I haven't found any option, thanks.
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Hello fellow Kodi friends. I just want to say I love AB and have a question. For the most part AB does a great job of pulling artwork for my Kodi library. I have noticed that some images are not pulled from Fanart TV Clearlogos for some TV shows for example I know they are in Fanart TV Britannia, Arm and Tacoma FD are a few that I downloaded manually from Fanart TV just curious why most items but not all are pulled?
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Hello friends, greetings from Greece.
I started using AB just yesterday and I would like to know if it's possible to place the downloaded artwork (in local file system) in separate folder than the one on the documentation.
Exaple:
Documentation says that we should place artwork in this location:
Artwork for //MRHOOD/TVShows/TV Show 1/ can generally be stored at //MRHOOD/TVShows/TV Show 1/[art type].[ext]
Is it possible to store artwork in this path: ... /TV Show 1/ARTWORK/[art type].[ext] ?
Will AB pick the artwork from that location (from an extra separate folder but within the default location/path)??
Sorry if this question has been ansered...