(2015-05-14, 14:19)T-bird_se Wrote: (2015-05-14, 13:28)madmax2 Wrote: There is no need to add <moviename> to any of those image files.
<moviename>-fanart.jpg
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Also I think you should make it by default to generate a folder.jpg instead of getting people to fill in the expert settings, which many people won't know about.
folder.jpg should be generated by default, because when we browse the movies in explorer we like to see it as a thumbnail
and it looks more nicer.
Please update program to make
-folder.jpg should be generated by default (no need for expert settings)
You are talking out of your personal preference
There are users that have all movies stored in only one folder and for those it's mandatory to have <filename>-poster.jpg
Kodi is backward compatible with all old naming schemes including those whit .tbn extension
And clearart, logos etc are not stored in kodi DB by default when scraping new movies
So if you think you need it, use expert settings
What do you mean people store all movies under one folder?
do you mean?
movies/matrix1.mkv
movies/matrix2.mkv
movies/matrix3.mkv
Maybe there are some users who do that, but I think that would be more a minority than majority.
I think more people are likely to keep movies in each folder name.
So I don't think what I am saying is just my own preference, but it is common way to store movies by many people.
There is only two possible way to store movies..
-All movies in one folder (complete mess)
-Each movies in their own folder. (so how can it be my own preference? I am sure many people would do this than do the first option)
Many sites I read, recommend you should store each movie under their own folder.
http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=36935
e.g.
movies/forrest gump/forrestgump.mkv
Also if you say people keep movies all in one folder, then what is the point of scraping all those image files?
Won't they just get over written if they are all in the same folder
e.g. fanart.jpg would keep getting overwritten everytime it scrapes a new movie.
Also that one movie folder would be a complete mess.
Also we are talking about Kodi users here, since they are mainly the ones interested in scraping movies to make it look nice in their movie library.
Therefore there is higher chance they would be organising their movies in each separate folder structure.
Else they can just open all their movies in any media player.
No need to waste time, bandwidth to scrape movies at all.
Also how would they see all their movies images if all movies are in one folder then you can only have one filename in that one folder.
e.g. fanart.jpg, clearart.jpg etc..
Therefore logically
-If people are willing to scrape their movies to make it look nice in Kodi
then odds are they would likely be organising each movie filename in separate movie folders.
Else if they didn't care then they wouldn't need to bother with scraping at all.
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I understand you are trying to keep some old time users happy..
but I believe most people nowadays are storing each movies in separate folders..
It keeps everything related to that movie in the same folder.
If they are the type that like you said keeps all movies in one folder
then they would not even bother to use this program to waste their time scraping.
They would just watch in a media player.
I have seen such users.
Therefore you are trying to make this program compatible with some people
that are not even using this program.
There are only two types of users
-Users who wantt their movie collection to look beautiful with images,info for Kodi, therefore people who are scraping movies and using Ember
-Users who don't care about scraping movies (not using ember), they just want to watch it in a media player.
Therefore more likely to just keep all movies in one folder like you said.