2015-04-14, 01:51
[quote='mihawk90' pid='1982071' dateline='1428964100']
First off, is there any way to move the Cache Directory? I'd like to store all those Pictures on my media Server rather then the playback machine. I'm using path-substitution in the advancedsettings.xml right now but that's somewhat of a brute-force method and I don't feel like this is how it's supposed to be done.
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There isn't a way to move the Cache directory. There is (sort of) a way to move stuff out of the cache directories though. I wrote a companion addon called Artist Slideshow Helper that will move all the stuff from your cache to a directory of your choosing. It will put them in a directory of your choosing in [artist]/extrafanart/. You could run that manually periodically or set it up to run every night using something like CronXBMC. Then you can set AS to use both local and remote images. Once there is a single image for a given artist in your outside directory, the cache directory won't ever get used again for that artist.
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As a second thought, why couldn't AS just use the Directory where the Music/Artist is stored (this of course would only work for organized collections, but this is the same with movies and tvshows so...), maybe in a configurable subfolder (something like D:\MyMusic\Artists\Artist\__extrafanarts__ or similar).
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There is an option to set a local directory in one of the settings panes for AS. It's called "Local Artist Folder" and is in the SLIDESHOW pane of the settings. Using that in combination with AS Helper (above) should do basically what you want. Or at least what I think you want. If you haven't yet, you might check out the AS wiki page (in signature). It describes all the settings.
First off, is there any way to move the Cache Directory? I'd like to store all those Pictures on my media Server rather then the playback machine. I'm using path-substitution in the advancedsettings.xml right now but that's somewhat of a brute-force method and I don't feel like this is how it's supposed to be done.
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There isn't a way to move the Cache directory. There is (sort of) a way to move stuff out of the cache directories though. I wrote a companion addon called Artist Slideshow Helper that will move all the stuff from your cache to a directory of your choosing. It will put them in a directory of your choosing in [artist]/extrafanart/. You could run that manually periodically or set it up to run every night using something like CronXBMC. Then you can set AS to use both local and remote images. Once there is a single image for a given artist in your outside directory, the cache directory won't ever get used again for that artist.
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As a second thought, why couldn't AS just use the Directory where the Music/Artist is stored (this of course would only work for organized collections, but this is the same with movies and tvshows so...), maybe in a configurable subfolder (something like D:\MyMusic\Artists\Artist\__extrafanarts__ or similar).
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There is an option to set a local directory in one of the settings panes for AS. It's called "Local Artist Folder" and is in the SLIDESHOW pane of the settings. Using that in combination with AS Helper (above) should do basically what you want. Or at least what I think you want. If you haven't yet, you might check out the AS wiki page (in signature). It describes all the settings.
