It's not my way to complain about someone else work but in this case there is no other way.
Iam using Artwork Beef since 3 weeks now because i moved from Krypton to Leia. And its really a mess to deal with this addon. I never had such problems with Artwork Downloader the last years.
I already posted one of the problems some days ago. I quote myself to do it again.
(2020-07-21, 20:54)MrSmith2019 Wrote: When i change something (e.g. a poster or a discart) within my movie library he always shows me "updated 1 file" but he dont applies the new graphic file. There is still the old poster, fanart or discart. I have to leave the movie library, go back to main menu and then re-enter the movie library. Then he shows the new graphic. Thats really annoying. Artwork Downloader was applying this immediately.
Its the same with all other graphics. Also on TV Shows. So i never know if he really downloaded the new graphic file and applied it. Sometimes he does and sometimes not. So i have to do it again and wait some minutes to see if it works.
For movies its not the big problem. I download all needed files from fanart.tv on my PC and add them manually after moving and renaming the files...
But for TV Shows this addon is not working properly. When i choose the function "AB: Add missing Artwork" from the context menu he is not downloading all graphics and in some cases he is downloading wrong files. In the setup i activated all graphics for TV Shows.
1. He is not downloading landscape graphics for Seasons. You have to do it manually one after one. And there is the next problem.
2. I always have to reopen the context menu for the next file because its closing after choosing one file. Thats annoying and makes no sense. It should go back to the menu so i can choose the next one.
3. He is downloading wrong banner, poster and landscape files. I dont know why but instead of downloading standard Tv show banner, poster and landscape files he is randomly downloading season files. So the standard poster is e.g. "Walking Dead Season 5" or the standard banner is "Breaking Bad Season 3" etc. So you have to change all these files manually.
4. He is not downloading character art.
That means you have to choose
every little graphic file for TV shows manually. And this takes a lot of time because he is not applying the graphics on time so i can see if he does the job or not. Because of my change from Krypton to Leia and because of the new API from TheTVDB i've rescraped all my TV shows. In the setup of AB i activated "only identify local files" for Movies and TV Shows. For movies it was working fine. He just used my stored graphics. But it was not working for TV Shows. He downloaded wrong files and in most cases he overwrites my old files. So iam sitting here since 4 days to rework all my graphics for TV shows...
I can't see any answers here from the author. I also can't see any updates or planned updates coming up?
This addon is one of a few must have addons. So it should be developed and bugs and issues should be fixed in my opinion.
Maybe it's a better idea that the Kodi Team integrates such functions like that because artwork downloading is (or should be) a basic feature of Kodi...
Sorry for my text but iam a bit frustrated