[huttdes]

Great to finally see a Kodi tutorial video not related to piracy!!
Going though and cleaning a decent sized library so I think I will definitely benefit from your videos at this time.

While I knew most of this I did learn some things from your video. I never had any API keys entered... how does this benefit me as opposed to just letting MC3 scrape like normal?

I've used different media managers over the years and want to get this all finalized at this time...

One thing I noticed after looking through my folders is for most of my movies I have duplicate disc art files.... one is disc.png and the other discart.png ... you only have discart.png. I know for sure the disc.png files I've been getting for many years... MC3 must have added the discart.png files. Has this been changed to the preferred naming structure? Should I delete all the disc.png files?
 Other thing I notice I have is in addition to poster and fanart png's... I also have <movie title>-fanart and poster files. I have both so that can't hurt but is there a preferred name?
Also even though my movies are all in individual folders my nfo's  are titled <movie title>.nfo instead of movie.nfo.... once again, any reason to choose one over the other?

Thanks, looking forward the upcoming videos.

Thank you for the feedback and the questions.

I am not sure where your other files are coming from, but the proper naming convention that works in Kodi is

Example:Folder 1: extrafanart
fanart0.jpg
fanart1.jpg
fanart2.jpg
And so on as many as you like

Folder 2: extrathumbs
thumb0.jpg
thumb1.jpg
thumb2.jpg
And so on as many as you like

And in the root folder called "The Dark Knight (2008)"
The Dark Knight (2008).mkv
poster.jpg
logo.png
fanart.jpg
disc.png
clearlogo.png
clearart.png
banner.jpg
movie.nfo

The files named movie-clearlogo.png and so on can be deleted.

As for the API key
You need them for getting lots of fanart and metadata quickly, as well as some content that you can only get with an API key like Rotten Tomatoes critics and audience scores, number of votes. When you enter the API keys you get loads more options for artwork in Media Companion. 

Well, I used MediaElch for some time before switching to MC3 so that is probably where all my different files came from. I can eliminate the clutter delete the <moviename>-poster/fanart.jpg easy enough along with the discart.png files.

However, replacing 900+ nfo files doesn't sound like fun. Any reason for me to be concerned about this? I mean everything works fine in Kodi but I'd like to make it as future proof as possible.

Any idea as to a timeline for your follow up videos?