[meowmoo]

@ DaveBlake make sure you use the beta from Marcels repo https://github.com/marcelveldt/repositor...arcelveldt
also you need to bring up the context menu on some music Artist/album and choose Artwork options, and than Advanced settings and you are in the metadatautils settings

from my point of view SHS makes CdArtManger unnecessary, because it do the same thing, but do it on the fly in the background,

using CDartM you need to scan your music, because it uses his own DB, you can than set a path to a folder and all art will be saved in that folder with that layout

Code:

ArtistName
----------extrafanart(folder)
----------banner.jpg
----------fanart.jpg
----------folder.jpg (artist thumb)
----------logo.png

now you need to Download every Art seperat (banner, clearArt, Thumbs.....) when you add new music you need to rescan the CDart DB and do all this stuff again.

SHS do the same thing, but in the background, there are lots of options Angelinas posted them, one of them is set a Custom path, same as CdartM, if this is set, and the option to Download all to custom folder is on everything ends up in this folder, if its turned off, the art get saved in the Music Folder.

so, When I start playing Oasis or browse to Oasis in my Artist node, SHS looks at my custom folder for a Oasis folder, if there is a Oasis folder, it use the Art inside this Folder (logo, thumb, banner), when the Oasis Folder is missing, SHS looks at Fanart.tv (apikey) and theaudiodb for Art, and Download it to my custom Folder. the Cool thing about SHS is it also work for streams, so when i listen to Radio, and they play David Gilmour, which is not in my Collection, and I dont have any Art for him, SHS look it up and Download it to my MusicArt Folder, since the last update, SHS also saves CDart in the Custom folder

Code:

ArtistName
----------Albumname(folder)
--------------------------folder.jpg
--------------------------cdArt.png
----------extrafanart(folder)
----------banner.jpg
----------fanart.jpg
----------folder.jpg (artist thumb)
----------logo.png

this is not what im used to because i store Album Related Art inside the Album, and Artist Art in my custom folder, but its not a big deal, If marcel give us an Option to store album art inside the album its great, if not im fine with it also, the issue here will be Streams I guess, because how should SHS handel CDart for a Radio stream, I dont like it to create a Folder inside my music Folder, for an Artist/album I dont own, so everything streamed should end up in the custom folder, and every Album Art, where i own the Album should be saved in the Album Folder, in my dream setup. But thats just me thinking out loud, Marcel is the Dev and im sure he comes up with a great solution, even if it keeps working like now im totally fine with it!

I hope i did not write any Nonsens, if so someone correct me pls

at last some Numbers, I have 818 AlbumArtist but in my Custom Folder are 1863 Artist Folders, (my wife listen Radion alot) thats ~8GB of Music Art thanks to SHS

sorry for the bad englisch, drinking my 3 german beer right now