[Jayson Wonder]

click here -> HOW-TO:Share libraries using MySQL (wiki)

This helped me a lot but I must be missing something as I have a few problems with my setup.

I have shared my media with all devices via SMB network share and I have the MYSQL database up an running successful. I built a fresh library on one of the devices and copied over my advancedsettings.xml. No problems aside from a handful of movies that would not get scrapped (like 10 out of 200 is not bad).

For those "problem files", I scanned individually and found the correct metadata with a manual search / editing the title and re-scrapping in Kodi. None of those re-scrapped files had art so I found the images and downloaded them to a shared folder and added the art manually in Kodi. So now the library looks perfect, all files are with their proper title and info data and all files have a poster art displayed. Just what I want......

Now when I go to the new device and start Kodi and check the library and all of my movies show up but the 10 "problem files" seem to loose the artwork I manually added. I thought it would share the location of that art with all devices...

I checked the MYSQL database and I see that the "problem files" do not have an entry under column c8 which appears to be the art location. All the other files have this entry in that column:

xml:
<thumb aspect="poster" preview="http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/10LsPVwIkoG3Wrljo3Bfrggz0nw.jpg">http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/10LsPVwIkoG3Wrljo3Bfrggz0nw.jpg</thumb><thumb aspect="poster" preview="http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/AdR5YjlApjnXqxKn2kehQbPoqqN.jpg">http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/AdR5YjlApjnXqxKn2kehQbPoqqN.jpg</thumb><thumb aspect="poster" preview="http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/10LsPVwIkoG3Wrljo3Bfrggz0nw.jpg">http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/10LsPVwIkoG3Wrljo3Bfrggz0nw.jpg</thumb><thumb aspect="poster" preview="http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/AdR5YjlApjnXqxKn2kehQbPoqqN.jpg">http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/AdR5YjlApjnXqxKn2kehQbPoqqN.jpg</thumb>

I feel like there should be a local network share address in that column perhaps like

url:
SMB://NAS/movieart/poster.jpg

Any thoughts on this issue and how to make the art data share regardless of where is originates?

Thanks