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Klyde · 2012-10-25, 20:58

I seem to be having issues getting multiple fanart for my music to work.
Its working fine for movies and tv shows, I enabled it under the music settings.
There are 2 things I'm unsure of if they are properly configured: There's an option for path below extra artist thumbnails. I have it pointed to my Music directory? Also is there a certain addon/script that will download multiple Artist fanart? the one I used for movies and tv didn't seem to have an option for music?

**ronie** · 2012-10-25, 21:06

yup, you have the set the path to the folder containing your music.
the folder structure should be like: .../Music/Artist/extrafanart/images.jpg

i think the cdartmanager addon can download multiple artist fanart images.

Klyde · (This post was last modified: 2012-10-26, 15:24 by Klyde.)

ah okay I notice now that my music directories don't have that extrafanart folder that the movies do. I'll give that cdartmanager addon a try Thanks for the quick reply & awesome skin!

Edit: Got it working, thanks again!
FYI for other people, I couldn't get Cdart Manager from the xbmc repository to work properly, had to update to the latest version manually Here

rcrh · 2012-12-16, 21:02

Does the fanart structure actually need to be where the mp3's are? I single fanart seems to go somewhere on my xbmc box. As do the album thumbs.

I ask because I have all of my media on a NAS that serves other PCs and media boxes and I'd rather not have all of this extra fan are (that is only used by xbmc) on the server.

**ronie** · 2012-12-16, 21:07

(2012-12-16, 21:02)rcrh Wrote: Does the fanart structure actually need to be where the mp3's are?

yes they have to.
xbmc has no built-in support for extra-fanart,
so the only way to make it work is to store them in the artist folder.

rcrh · 2012-12-16, 21:30

OK, that's unfortunate but understandable.

Here's a followup. My music is actually stored with a genre folder too. It looks like this:
music/songs/rock/artist/album
music/songs/country/artist/album
music/songs/jazz/artist/album
music/songs/classical/artist/album

Will the genre structure stop the extra fan art and CD artwork from working?

Thanks.

**ronie** · 2012-12-16, 21:33

(2012-12-16, 21:30)rcrh Wrote: OK, that's unfortunate but understandable.

Here's a followup. My music is actually stored with a genre folder too. It looks like this:
music/songs/rock/artist/album
music/songs/country/artist/album
music/songs/jazz/artist/album
music/songs/classical/artist/album

Will the genre structure stop the extra fan art and CD artwork from working?

Thanks.

yup, that's not going to work.

rcrh · 2012-12-17, 05:16

(2012-12-16, 21:33)ronie Wrote:
(2012-12-16, 21:30)rcrh Wrote: OK, that's unfortunate but understandable.

Here's a followup. My music is actually stored with a genre folder too. It looks like this:
music/songs/rock/artist/album
music/songs/country/artist/album
music/songs/jazz/artist/album
music/songs/classical/artist/album

Will the genre structure stop the extra fan art and CD artwork from working?

Thanks.

yup, that's not going to work.

OK, I'll rework the source as a compound source the points to the folders after the genres.

Thanks.

rcrh · 2012-12-24, 01:35

Well that didn't work either since the fanart addon doesn't use the source. It uses it's own path to the directory.

I've reorganized all of my music.