[chrissix666]

@vbat99 
@the_bo 

Every artwork wich is not an artwork type will be every time accessed to filesystem via ListItem.Path in skin.xml's, this belongs to extrafanart and extrathumbs, no matter if already cached or not, always accesses.
I currently run my system locally with a gaming machine and my hard drives are starting to sweat and skin performance is falling. If I would switch to a NAS/SERVER system that would be inconceivable. The creator of ArtworkBeef pursues the same idea for some time, and his solution is also to treat extrafanarts as own Artworktype so that you can read them directly into kodi. 

In addition, I am also currently experimenting a lot in skinning with multiimage control. More specifically, with the folders extracharacterart (characterart0-9.jpg), extraposter (poster0-9.jpg) extrakeyart (keyart0-9.jpg) Currently I'm using the same system as extrafanart folder -> ListItem.Path. I'm getting quite good results, but Listitem.Path is not a permanent solution because of during disk access and slower skin performance. Alternative -> Artworkbeef: Handle all extra stuff as an own artwork type.

Here is some test footage:

Is there a program to move the images from the extrafanrt folder to the main folder. I don't fancy manually moving and renaming all the images to fanart1, fanart2 etc.

Maybe a script or something could be used.

Not yet (a know about). I know too little about scripting although I'm already trying to work with something. Maybe we can work on some kinda solution together?
Specifically, we would need two steps:
1st) We need to copy all files from extrafanart folder into the main folder, but only fanart1-9.jpg (in my case my fanart0.jpg is a copy of main fanart)
(It is already assumed that the files are already named according to convention fanart0-9.jpg. I used the Media Companion rename fix. However, there was once a time where you can get up to twenty extrafanarts via Media Companion. Of course, the rest left were not renamed. I searched for them with the windows explorer search function extrafanart type:=picture, then sorted by name, marked and then deleted. So that only fanart0-9.jpg was remaining.
2st) Then we need to bulk rename fanart0-9.jpg to Moviefilename-fanart0-9.jpg. Since my film folder always has the same name as the filename, I could solve it very easily with the Bulk Rename Utility. There is a fancy function to rename a file with foldername as prefix.

Also does MC scrape for character art. Is there any sites that have character art?

Sure MC scrapes the official artworktype characterart.png for TvShows.
But no scraping for extracharacterart (multiimage) for TvShows (you have to download it manually from fanart.tv)
And also no for extracharacterart (multiimage) for Movies (also manually and no official source for that kind of art)

@latts9923  have included extracharactert for TvShows and Movies in his Aeon MQ 7 Multi-Mod (Krypon & Leia) as an experimental feature or some kind of easter egg - and only in RightListView.
Look here for more information and a extracharactart for movies starter pack on my cloud. (All non-official artwork types - just artwork fun):
https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid...pid2816605

At present, having the extrafanart in the movies folder (not in a sub-folder) is not the preferred method as per Kodi Wiki
Movie ExtraFanart

Of course you're right, but I do not know if you've noticed, Kodi 18 Leia final has been released for two weeks and a week ago the Kodi Artwork Wiki was also updated.
See point 5.2: https://kodi.wiki/view/Movie_artwork#Multiple_fanart

Many skinners have added or even replaced the extrafanart "ArtworkBeef method" while updating the skins on Kodi 18 final. One week ago (after a long time) TeamKodi was persuaded to add it to the wiki.
For example, with Aeon MQ7 MultiMod (for Krypton or Leia) both systems for extrafanart parralel are available for selection. In addition, there is also an experimental extrakeyart function.

And it depends on where the Skin is looking for this artwork.
Usually, the extrafanart/extrathumbs should be found in corresponding folders.

But, this is up to the Skin developer to state where this artwork should be place. And preferably, the skin should fall-back to the Kodi recommended layout.

Of course you are right. As I said, the skins that are currently being updated already offer the alternative method.

Though I might look into this in the future to have the option of in the Movie's Folder....

That would be the best thing ever!
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Until then I will use manual paste/copy/rename to migrate my database to the parallel system to work with ArtworkBeef and Skinning myself. A few questions that I ask myself while naming are still open ... currently it probably looks like this:

Official Artwork Types:

extrafanart folder to main folder:
fanart0.jpg ->Moviebasfilename-fanart0.jpg -> Is omitted because the main fanart already exists and a "0" in ArtworkBeef System is not provided.
fanart1.jpg ->Moviebasfilename-fanart1.jpg
fanart2.jpg ->Moviebasfilename-fanart2.jpg
fanart3.jpg ->Moviebasfilename-fanart3.jpg
fanart4.jpg ->Moviebasfilename-fanart4.jpg
fanart5.jpg ->Moviebasfilename-fanart5.jpg
fanart6.jpg ->Moviebasfilename-fanart6.jpg
fanart7.jpg ->Moviebasfilename-fanart7.jpg
fanart8.jpg ->Moviebasfilename-fanart8.jpg
fanart9.jpg ->Moviebasfilename-fanart9.jpg

thumbs folder to main folder:
thumb0.jpg ->Moviebasfilename-thumb.jpg
thumb1.jpg ->Moviebasfilename-thumb1.jpg
thumb2.jpg ->Moviebasfilename-thumb2.jpg
thumb3.jpg ->Moviebasfilename-thumb3.jpg

Non-Official Artwork Types (only experimental, just to complete my thoughts):

extracharacterart folder to main folder:
characterart0 ->Moviebasfilename-characterart.png
characterart1 ->Moviebasfilename-characterart1.png
characterart2 ->Moviebasfilename-characterart2.png
characterart3 ->Moviebasfilename-characterart3.png
characterart4 ->Moviebasfilename-characterart4.png
characterart5 ->Moviebasfilename-characterart5.png
characterart6 ->Moviebasfilename-characterart6.png
characterart7 ->Moviebasfilename-characterart7.png
characterart8 ->Moviebasfilename-characterart8.png
characterart9 ->Moviebasfilename-characterart9.png

extraposter folder to main folder:
(Very impractical because I would have to make a number jump caus main poster already exist)
poster0.jpg ->Moviebasfilename-poster1.jpg
poster1.jpg ->Moviebasfilename-poster2.jpg
poster2.jpg ->Moviebasfilename-poster3.jpg
poster3.jpg ->Moviebasfilename-poster4.jpg
poster4.jpg ->Moviebasfilename-poster5.jpg
poster5.jpg ->Moviebasfilename-poster6.jpg
poster6.jpg ->Moviebasfilename-poster7.jpg
poster7.jpg ->Moviebasfilename-poster8.jpg
poster8.jpg ->Moviebasfilename-poster9.jpg
poster9.jpg ->

extrakeyart folder to main folder:
(Very impractical because I would have to make a number jump caus main keyart already exist)
keyart0.jpg ->Moviebasfilename-keyart1.jpg
keyart1.jpg ->Moviebasfilename-keyart2.jpg
keyart2.jpg ->Moviebasfilename-keyart3.jpg
keyart3.jpg ->Moviebasfilename-keyart4.jpg
keyart4.jpg ->Moviebasfilename-keyart5.jpg
keyart5.jpg ->Moviebasfilename-keyart6.jpg
keyart6.jpg ->Moviebasfilename-keyart7.jpg
keyart7.jpg ->Moviebasfilename-keyart8.jpg
keyart8.jpg ->Moviebasfilename-keyart9.jpg
keyart9.jpg