[Milhouse]

It appears that art work is being downloaded. All the videos that I added to the source on my last library update now have artwork. All the downloading is occurring in the background however. No progress window is being displayed. The download in the background option is disabled, I checked it again to make sure and even shutdown and re-launched xbmc just to be sure that the configuration was set. Since I'm getting my art this isn't really a major concern, but the improper behavior still bothers me.

Edit- after working with this for a bit (twisting knobs and pushing buttons ) I realize that maybe the problem is me. I have been initiating the download with the "Get Artwork" button in the quick nav window. If I actually navigate to the addon and launch it the behavior is just what it should be. Downloading in the fore ground with a progress bar. Perhaps the quick nav button is actually launching a different addon? Looks like everything is working as it should though. Thanks to everyone for your help. Does the downloader get artwork for every movie in my library every time it is launched?

FYI, AD won't download anything unless you enable "Use local files", when it will write the associated artwork into your filesystem. However, AD only supports movies in individual folders, so don't try this if you are using movie-name prefixes and storing multiple movies per folder.

With "Use local files" disabled, movies/tvshows in your media library will be associated with remote artwork (ie. urls hosted on fanart.tv will be assigned to your movies,/tvshows) but these artwork items will not be cached (downloaded) by AD - you'll need to view the artwork items individually in the GUI before they are downloaded (or pre-load them automatically using a script).

This is true when running AD in any mode.