2021-04-07, 01:31
(2021-04-06, 21:24)Panko Wrote:It would seem you are correct.(2021-04-05, 13:34)Juan Mortyme Wrote:(2021-04-05, 13:07)nomnom27 Wrote: This is how I have my folder set up for extrafanart. Is it kodi or I'm i doing something wrong?@nomnom27
No it's not you, it's Kodi or some addon.
As I tried to explain earlier, in the last round of updates either the skin or one of the addons broke a bunch of stuff, extrafanart is just one of the victims.
At this point you have two choices: a) move your extrafanart from extrafanart folder to the movie folder or b) Sit tight and live with no extra fanart until it gets fixed.
You most definitely are not the only user experiencing this issue and I trust it is being looked into as I type this.
As far I know, extrafanart folder support was or is removed/removing from kodi, the new addon that's replacing older artwork beef, atwork dumb, stores artwork in the same folder as movie or tvshow. Extrafanart support are harcoded in some skins and addons and, as far i know, is causing kodi crashes when trying to acces folder and it does not existe, now it's in early stages of removing from skins and addons, and latts have plans to remove support too, so maybe it start doing it... The solution is, as some one commented, move/copy artwork just out of the extrafanart folder (needed to rename to match movie file name or show folder name), or just use artwork-dump addon to retrieve again all existing artwork to the right place and maintain for some time extrafanart folder too to avoid unwanted kodi crashes.
I did some testing.
All my movies are in folders structured like this. Created by "Media Companion"
each movie is in it own folder
drive
|------Movies (folder)
|-----Movie name (folder)
|------- .actors (folder)
| | actor1.jpg
| | actor2.jpg
|
| ------- extrafanart (folder)
| | fanart1.jpg
| | fanart2.jpg
|
|--------- extrathumbs (folder)
| | thumb1.jpg
| | thumb2.jpg
|
Movie name.mkv
Movie name.nfo
Movie name-poster.jpg
Movie name-banner.jpg
etc
Kodi 18 was reading the content of the "extrafanart" folder and using it. Kodi 19 (or the MQ7 skin) (from my testing) is not reading the "extrafanart" folder at all.
For kodi 19 to read the extrafanart images they must be located in the same root folder as the "movie name.mkv" above.
If you setup "artwork dump" correctly it will download the extrafanart and save it where ever your movie file is located. BUT, it seems to only do this the very first time you add a particular movie. There seems to be no way to force it to download and save the extrafanart if the movie is already in the library. Also "Artwork dump" defaults to downloading only one image you need to change that to as many as you want.
Foot note. I have no idea if the "extrathumbs" (folder) is ever used for anything. Media companion creates it and is a duplicate content of the "extrafanart" folder.