2013-07-18, 18:55
trying now - doesn't seem to work but refreshing the tv show images takes a while. What's really weird is that when I tap into a show the banner displays in the bottom left just fine. Constellation just refuses to display it where it's needed most. Weirder still is that my newly added TV shows are fine - their banner displays very quickly. All shows after a certain date work. I think that date is my Frodo upgrade. Anything prior doesn't have a banner.
Edit: wait....something funky here. If I go into an old tv show, change artwork, choose a new remote banner, then delete constellation data and image cache and resync then my banner appears in the app. A bit of a ridiculous workaround, but constellation is so very nearly perfect that I think it must be done. Hi ho.....
Edit 2: Done and fixed. Odd that I'm more likely to find a helpful programmer to kindly gloss over my profound stupidity in python than to find the developer of an app that I paid for to explain how their product works. The fix for my issue came when I noticed that the artwork for my TV shows was not quite right in XBMC - banner was poster and poster was banner. Using the fanart plugin to overwrite both banner and poster did the trick. Also compounding the problem were some advanced DDWRT wifi settings that really really slowed down my ipad wifi access.
Anyone else annoyed by the fact that we can't browse playlists from the app?
The "fix" for this is to make a new command in Constellation that calls your most used playlists:
Builtin command: PlayMedia(special://profile/playlists/music/yourplaylist.m3u)
substituting the final bit for your playlist location (will probably me .XSP if you made it in XBMC)
Final tip for iTunes users: get a copy of iTunes Export Console (iTunesExportScala) then schedule this command to regularly export all your iTunes playlists to XBMC:
java -jar C:\iTunesExportScala-2.2.2\itunesexport.jar -outputDir=X:\.xbmc\userdata\playlists\music\iTunes
This means you can use your genius playlists from the lounge room without an apple tv. Apple users have it even easier - theres a lot of itunes scripts written for mac.
Edit: wait....something funky here. If I go into an old tv show, change artwork, choose a new remote banner, then delete constellation data and image cache and resync then my banner appears in the app. A bit of a ridiculous workaround, but constellation is so very nearly perfect that I think it must be done. Hi ho.....
Edit 2: Done and fixed. Odd that I'm more likely to find a helpful programmer to kindly gloss over my profound stupidity in python than to find the developer of an app that I paid for to explain how their product works. The fix for my issue came when I noticed that the artwork for my TV shows was not quite right in XBMC - banner was poster and poster was banner. Using the fanart plugin to overwrite both banner and poster did the trick. Also compounding the problem were some advanced DDWRT wifi settings that really really slowed down my ipad wifi access.
Anyone else annoyed by the fact that we can't browse playlists from the app?
The "fix" for this is to make a new command in Constellation that calls your most used playlists:
Builtin command: PlayMedia(special://profile/playlists/music/yourplaylist.m3u)
substituting the final bit for your playlist location (will probably me .XSP if you made it in XBMC)
Final tip for iTunes users: get a copy of iTunes Export Console (iTunesExportScala) then schedule this command to regularly export all your iTunes playlists to XBMC:
java -jar C:\iTunesExportScala-2.2.2\itunesexport.jar -outputDir=X:\.xbmc\userdata\playlists\music\iTunes
This means you can use your genius playlists from the lounge room without an apple tv. Apple users have it even easier - theres a lot of itunes scripts written for mac.