2015-07-08, 02:22
Thanks for your input, but I think you are a little confused. That may be due to not understanding my entire situation which I don't believe I explained in full detail.
Currently I procure all the extra art for all movies (and TV Shows) before I scrape them. All movies are in separate folders with the same movie name for the folder name. I have to include 2 versions of the extra art to get everything to work "right". I use the simple names like disc.png so that if/when I run Artwork Downloader it will find and install that art. I also use the Titanic-discart.png name for a duplicate of the same image file so if I only add 1 new movie I can manually manage it and add those extra art myself. Kodi recognizes the filename-art.png file, but as you explained it first required at minimum 1 movie scraped into Kodi and then "scanned" by Artwork Downloader to "activate" Kodi to look for and give access to this art. So I have redundant extra art for every movie because Artwork Downloader and Kodi don't work in harmony here.
That is why your insistence of turning off local files confused me so much. All my extra art which I require Artwork Downloader for IS local. I do not want the add-on searching the internet for the artwork.
If you only use the simple file names that Artwork Downloader requires then Kodi won't "see" those files by default if you want to manually mange the art yourself. You can browse for them in the item folder but by default there is no artwork listed by Kodi. Also, if you add the art through Artwork Downloader with the simple names and then do an export library of all art to individual files, Kodi will export some of the extra art using the filename-discart.png names. But it doesn't export all the art and what it does or does not export seems to be random. Everything for 1 movie, just the logo for the next, then logo and clearart, or just the disc and so on. It's oddly random.
What would be great is if Artwork Downloader could use the same filename-artwork.png names like Kodi does. Obviously all the filename parts are going to be different but if it's looking for the -discart.png and such as part of the file name and then added it automatically the need for duplicate files wouldn't exist. I was curious if there was some way in Artwork Downloader to change this, to have it look for say Supercalifragalisticexpialidoucious.png instead of disc.png to load the disc art. In theory making it -discart.png or *-discart.png would hopefully obtain the same result.
Apologies for the long post. Just trying to be more clear on my set-up and my query. The double files isn't the end of the world but would be awesome if all the files in the movie folder followed the same convention and both Artwork Downloader and Kodi worked in harmony.
Currently I procure all the extra art for all movies (and TV Shows) before I scrape them. All movies are in separate folders with the same movie name for the folder name. I have to include 2 versions of the extra art to get everything to work "right". I use the simple names like disc.png so that if/when I run Artwork Downloader it will find and install that art. I also use the Titanic-discart.png name for a duplicate of the same image file so if I only add 1 new movie I can manually manage it and add those extra art myself. Kodi recognizes the filename-art.png file, but as you explained it first required at minimum 1 movie scraped into Kodi and then "scanned" by Artwork Downloader to "activate" Kodi to look for and give access to this art. So I have redundant extra art for every movie because Artwork Downloader and Kodi don't work in harmony here.
That is why your insistence of turning off local files confused me so much. All my extra art which I require Artwork Downloader for IS local. I do not want the add-on searching the internet for the artwork.
If you only use the simple file names that Artwork Downloader requires then Kodi won't "see" those files by default if you want to manually mange the art yourself. You can browse for them in the item folder but by default there is no artwork listed by Kodi. Also, if you add the art through Artwork Downloader with the simple names and then do an export library of all art to individual files, Kodi will export some of the extra art using the filename-discart.png names. But it doesn't export all the art and what it does or does not export seems to be random. Everything for 1 movie, just the logo for the next, then logo and clearart, or just the disc and so on. It's oddly random.
What would be great is if Artwork Downloader could use the same filename-artwork.png names like Kodi does. Obviously all the filename parts are going to be different but if it's looking for the -discart.png and such as part of the file name and then added it automatically the need for duplicate files wouldn't exist. I was curious if there was some way in Artwork Downloader to change this, to have it look for say Supercalifragalisticexpialidoucious.png instead of disc.png to load the disc art. In theory making it -discart.png or *-discart.png would hopefully obtain the same result.
Apologies for the long post. Just trying to be more clear on my set-up and my query. The double files isn't the end of the world but would be awesome if all the files in the movie folder followed the same convention and both Artwork Downloader and Kodi worked in harmony.