[Komet]

It's a great app, and development progress is pretty rapid.

My current suggestions:

1) It would be nice to know the images sizes before they are chosen and downloaded.
2) When I attempt to scrape a TV show episode, I'm asked to choose the TV Show - perhaps there's something incorrect in my nfo files, but it would nice if the scraper knew which show I was working with, and scraped the episode without needing me to select the show.
3) If I have existing artwork for a media item, and I search/scrape for information on that item, my existing files are overwritten. The problem here is that I might already have a thumb for a tvshow, but don't have the nfo. If I scrape for the nfo, my existing thumb will be overwritten. - I'm not a huge fan of countless options, but I think an 'overwrite existing nfo/thumb/fanart etc' option is pretty important
4) There's no subtitle file support right now (showing if one exists)

Very pleased with the app in general. It's not (yet) as sophisticated as (say Ember), but it offers music video capability, and if progress continues at the current rate, it will soon be surpassing Ember.

Really impressed - keep up the great work!

1) This is not possible. The APIs from The Movie DB and The TV DB don't deliver the image sizes before you actually download the image.
2) Nothing wrong with your nfo files. I'll improve it and skip the search widget when the show was already scraped.

3) Keep in mind that MediaElch will not overwrite any of your files unless you hit the save button. So it's safe to rescrape the show (or movie/concert) check for new artwork and if you don't like it hit the "Revert" button (left to the name of the show) or simply don't save.
Back to your problem Something already on the roadmap: Scraping of tv shows similar to movies. Notice the little checkboxes when scraping movies, these are coming to tv shows as well. So you will be able to choose which items you want to load and which ones to exclude (in your case thumbs).

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Oh, also, I've been wondering about the -really- slow Reload for TV Shows. I've seen suggestions about disabling the cache, but I can't actually find the option to do that in the GUI. I have a rather massive amount of TV shows on a home server (7.5T), and it can take up to an hour just to reload.

This was removed with the 1.3 release. It's a little bit strange and seems to only affect some people (another guy said loading tv shows is really fast but movies can take a long time). Within the next days I'll prepare a little timing feature to get a hint what's the problem with MediaElch and your setup, stay tuned . (Reloading my tv shows with 2.5TB takes around a minute).