2017-01-29, 18:20
(2017-01-29, 15:58)meowmoo Wrote: Hi pkscout,
what is the reason that you are using "Hashlist" for all the Artist folder?
If AS would just use the Proper Artist name instead of 00dd4e04 as Folder Name it would make a few thing much easier.
use selfemade MBID.nfos, witch will reduse the load on all Sites AS depends on, sure just a few user will use this but hey...
and, thats Importen for me, we could just Copy/paste the ArtistSlideshow folder stuff to all the other "Music Art" stuff we have on the NAS.
I know there is AS-Helper witch should do this but it did not work for me 100% some Picture get moved some are not, here is my old post http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=...pid2394561
I did lots of testing but I cant figure out a pattern here....
Last time I checkt there where 1.1GB pictures in the AS Folder, but ASH is running once a Day via a cronjob. Its not that im Running out of space or so, but I have 6GB+ Music Art on my NAS, and I wannt them all in one place, and doing it by hand is a PITA
post #1930 above and yes that would be helpful. I guess programmers do have a reason to work with "hashed" artist names.
Quote:Yea, the streaming artists won't be in the Kodi db at all. For streaming artists, AS handles everything. AS uses the artist name (if it can figure it out based on the information the stream provides) to create the cache folders and then hopes that either theaudiodb or lastfm will return a musicbrainz ID so that you can use fanart.tv images. The actual names are hashes of the artist name (using Kodi's internal hash mechanism), and that was done early on (pre my time even) to avoid unicode name problems. At this point changing that would be really problematic.
I need however some clarification on the following:
I did run ASH doing a copy of the hashed files. Then I configured AS to use this new defined directory as "local artist folder". If this really works then we could really do an export on daily basis and maintain the files in this structure. Maybe I'm dreaming.....
