[vbat99]

Don't remember seeing it before (in the v3.5.2.1b release). But there are a lot of little things that have caused errors in Media Companion for me.

I'm not saying the program is riddled with bugs, because i'm quite certain 50% off the issues i'm getting are due to my setup. But like I say, not experienced this issue before.

As per your last post, that might be the reason. Posters are downloading fine, it just fanarts that are experiencing issues.

While i'm here, i also noticed (with the option set) fanart is downloaded to the folder "extrathumbs", whereas Artwork downloader uses a folder called "extrafanart". Am I right in assuming these two variations are the same thing done differently? Most of the skins i've used use the "extrafanart" folder for extra images, so not sure if using Media Companion will work with this setup or conflict with Artwork Downloader. I'm only really concerned about using Media Companion for ensuring the main movie/tv poster and backdrop are downloaded. For everything else, I can use Artwork Downloader (Disk, Clearlogo, extrafanart, etc).

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...and Media Companion for filling in the gaps in metadata left by built-in scrapers, obviously.

Currently fma965 is working on the TV shows side of MC for Frodo support.

The issue you are experiencing is in the Movie side. I'll checkout the "extrathumbs" or "extrafanart" folder, see which is relevant, but this was an area HueyHQ worked on a while ago.

Also, yes, The Movie DB site is having problems, and crashes are occuring in Media Companion, all versions.

Dev, AnotherPhil is working on Frodo compatability, but he is currently enjoying some vacation time, so please be patience.

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I am reposting this from http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...pid1308586 as instructed by fma965. In so doing, I am also trying to clarify several points which apparently were obscure in the original post.

Re-posted:
In recent versions, MC seems to have gone into regress:

• TV shows scrape but episodes do not. (The program says good bye.)
  
  
• The laudable Home Movies new feature has dropped the option to edit (put text into) the plot tag. As this is the only tag where content related info can be placed, this omission renders the feature 1/3 useless.
  
  
• Window frames have become so small as to render them useless (among the affected: TV folders browser window frame, Home Movies browser window frame).
  
  In response to fma965's exclamation "i don't even understand what you mean... please explain...folders browser windows are always like that its part of visual studio", I clarify that I am refering to the text-filling frames in VB/VS forms. Surely it is an ergonomically unacceptable design to reduce the x-axis of such a frame to less than one should reasonably expect to be the path length, and the y-axis to no more than three lines, thus making it unable to accommodate more than three single titles (for the rest, good scrolling). Yet this is exactly what MC did in later editions, and given that it used to have a better design it is not unreasonable to ask for this to be corrected.
  
  

What is wrong, what is wrong?

Has the effort to bring MC into line with Frodo derailed the program?

I am using 3.5.2.1b, and have set it up to Frodo only compatibility mode.

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Gidday DiMag

I see fma965 has replied to a couple of your issues, but, first, could you test with the latest Frodo Alpha from this link http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...pid1306764. This is the lastest Frodo Alpha. Version 3.5.2.1b while had Frodo option, didn't have the code in place. Till these alpha's.

Secondly, Homemovies function was introduced by the original developer, Billy, but since this was added, Billy hasn't been available to support the functionality. Once the Latest Frodo code is smoothed out, I suspect bug fixes will be next to sort.

Thirdly, It's been mentioned that editing on different computers, different software, can alter the windows GUI, causing to issue as found in MC of Late, (biggest is the individual list of TV Shows being quite narrow). These glitches will be sorted, but as said above, Frodo functionality is higher on the cards right now.

Please be patient.