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I'm trying to avoid going to a setup where I need to manually manage the folders. I'm still figuring out how this works, but if possible I'd prefer to be using folders that are populating themselves with art as new series are added.

You can stills crape the movies automatically, and have them use the artwork they download. That is not related to the folder that you point your custom background art too.

For example, I have a custom entry on my xbmc using Aeon Nox that is defined as a video node. I can simply tell it to only show movies that have a genre of "family", or something like that. Then each movie shows the fanart that this downloader grabs. However, when browsing on the main menu, I wanted a set of images to cycle that relate to these movies. So I created a folder full of images and pointed to it. The various background options, iirc, do not adhere to the video node filter - so if I were to choose "live dvd cases", it would use my entire collection (I believe). This is a limitation of the skin, not the downloader. What you seem to be asking is to basically have the downloader *also* create a second folder with images from each movie, that way you can point your backgrounds to this. This would require the downloader to be aware of genres and sort downloads based on genres, while also creating duplicates of every download....and in some cases triplicates and quds (one for each genre a movie has). maybe I am understanding you wrong though. Either way, this seems to be more a function of the skin, than the artwork downloader.