2014-01-26, 06:43
Well, I'll try to explain what I'm trying to do and I try to figure out how Artwork Downloader works.
I summarize my system :
Windows 7 64 bit, 16 GB memory with Frodo 12.3 and Aeon Nox 4.0.9 with Artwork Downloader 12.0.23
NAS Synology DS -210 +, 6 TB
Webdav access to my movies
I 'm not with a sql database and do not want to (for technical reasons)
One local networked master station
I have 5 external and one local networked stations (mostly for my family scattered in different cities who get access to my NAS ) .
One directory for my movies (I cannot change this due to another system used in parallel for which one movie per folder do not work very well).
Like I said, all my movies are all in the same directory for the reasons mentioned above. I cannot change my storage system. Actually, to feed all other local and external networked positions, so that their media libraries reflects what I have in my master station, I export my database into separate files, with thumbnails, posters and actors. This way, they always have exactly the same thing as me because I set their positions for their media libraries to be updated automatically when opening XBMC. So far, so good, I never had any problems working that way.
This is until I started to play with cd art and Artwork Downloader, where everything became complicated for me . I suppose I don't understand enough what is database caching etc.This is what I'm trying to find a way to:
1 - Successfully automate a process so that all my current movies (well, those for which a CD or Disc art is provided) display that CD or Disc art in my library. Is that possible using my folder structure? ( I know I 'm not in an ideal situation and the requested structure asked by Artwork Downloader, with all my movies in the same directory). I'm just trying to understand how eveything works. If this cannot be achieved automatically, I resign myself to do it manually, at least to update my actual library for all my movies. Then, when I would add more movies, I would do them one by one. This is what I 'm confused with: The "disc.png" and movie_name-discart.png files. What is the difference between the two? Which one is used? Both? Which one is written in a database and what is written exactly?
2 - Once my movies will be well tagged with CD or Disc art, if I export my library using separate files, etc. (as mentionned above), will the other networked stations also import correctly my CD or Disc art so that can reflect what I have on my own master station?
This is what I'd like to get but the way to get there is difficult because I don't understand much of the process yet. I read the wiki but I still don't get it. I hope that I have explained my situation well enough.
I summarize my system :
Windows 7 64 bit, 16 GB memory with Frodo 12.3 and Aeon Nox 4.0.9 with Artwork Downloader 12.0.23
NAS Synology DS -210 +, 6 TB
Webdav access to my movies
I 'm not with a sql database and do not want to (for technical reasons)
One local networked master station
I have 5 external and one local networked stations (mostly for my family scattered in different cities who get access to my NAS ) .
One directory for my movies (I cannot change this due to another system used in parallel for which one movie per folder do not work very well).
Like I said, all my movies are all in the same directory for the reasons mentioned above. I cannot change my storage system. Actually, to feed all other local and external networked positions, so that their media libraries reflects what I have in my master station, I export my database into separate files, with thumbnails, posters and actors. This way, they always have exactly the same thing as me because I set their positions for their media libraries to be updated automatically when opening XBMC. So far, so good, I never had any problems working that way.
This is until I started to play with cd art and Artwork Downloader, where everything became complicated for me . I suppose I don't understand enough what is database caching etc.This is what I'm trying to find a way to:
1 - Successfully automate a process so that all my current movies (well, those for which a CD or Disc art is provided) display that CD or Disc art in my library. Is that possible using my folder structure? ( I know I 'm not in an ideal situation and the requested structure asked by Artwork Downloader, with all my movies in the same directory). I'm just trying to understand how eveything works. If this cannot be achieved automatically, I resign myself to do it manually, at least to update my actual library for all my movies. Then, when I would add more movies, I would do them one by one. This is what I 'm confused with: The "disc.png" and movie_name-discart.png files. What is the difference between the two? Which one is used? Both? Which one is written in a database and what is written exactly?
2 - Once my movies will be well tagged with CD or Disc art, if I export my library using separate files, etc. (as mentionned above), will the other networked stations also import correctly my CD or Disc art so that can reflect what I have on my own master station?
This is what I'd like to get but the way to get there is difficult because I don't understand much of the process yet. I read the wiki but I still don't get it. I hope that I have explained my situation well enough.