2015-07-08, 02:51
(2015-07-08, 02:33)Milhouse Wrote: To be honest, as long as you're able to run a Python script from the command line, you'd be better of with mklocal.py as you wouldn't then need to maintain all of these duplicate artwork files. mklocal.py is also a helluva lot quicker than Artwork Downloader, which you would no longer need to use ever again.
If you're interested in mklocal.py, give it a go and if you get stuck post in the thread in my sig. If not, then Artwork Downloader is your only other option and you'll have to continue working around it's shortcomings.
For myself, I can do many things. In general, unless I am adding a ton of new movies at once I update all the artwork manually myself. I still need the redundant files in case of failures though.
However I maintain Kodi systems for my parents and friends and they aren't all that computer smart. Currently they can understand updating their library, which then runs Artwork Downloader immediately after automatically. It works, but it's slow because it's scanning everything. They get almost everything from me via emails or fttp portable hard drive. I ship a drive through inter-company mail back and fourth with a real good friend of mine but he's barely able to copy the files to his hard drive and then run the Kodi update. So just spending some time in the cool basement to see if it's possible to make things even simpler.
I don't know much about Python but I found in the art-list.py file instances for the artwork names, specifically disc.png, logo.png and clearart.png. If I change these to -discart.png and such will Artwork Downloader now add the filename-discart.png files? I'm sure there has to be a way to have it ignore the filename portion but I'm not sure the syntax. I'll play around and see what I can get to work.