[scott967]

1) Each of the channels seems to have a folder labelled "extra fanart", which is empty. Is that supposed to be there, and if so is there any way to suppress it?

You can probably blame me for suggesting this. The intent is for skins that emphasize showing fanart as backgrounds (for example, see ronie's "Transparency!" and various Aeon-derived skins.) These skins have options for using "extrafanart" (not extra fanart BTW) and extrathumbs. This works by having the fanart in a known folder location. Also, for media supported in scraping data sites, the skins typically use an add-on (artwork downloader) by Martijn that auto-downloads art including the extrafanart. For these skins/downloader to work it is expected that media folders by organized so that movies are in individual folders, and the "extrafanart" folder is placed there, likewise for tvshows and musicvideos. In the case of tvshows, there is also the option of displaying "seasons" and "episodes". Kodi itself has no requirement for how these are orgainized (it's all based on filename or nfo) but for artwork downloader it expects that all episodes are contained in "season" folders. Thus for the skin, when in episode view the skin always looks in the episode's parent folder for the extrafanart folder.

Now artwork downloader is never going to find art for youtube channels managed as tvshows, so if a user wants extrafanart, he will have to generate it himself. The solution of youtube library, is to create the extrafanart folder and copy fanart.jpg to it. That's a good solution as a skin that is set to only show fanart will ignore the extrafanart folder, and a skin set to show extrafanart will show the single fanart.jpg without user needing to do anything. Only if the user wants a fanart slideshow (multi-image) does he have to examine the actual folder structure. (what I do personally so far with yt-library is to point the Kodi screenshot function to the extrafanart folder and take a couple shots of playing yt videos so over time it populates the folder. You have to manually change the screenshot path in the settings every time you switch channels (tvshows) which isn't as easy as it could be but it works and like I said, no impact that I see on users who don't need/care about extrafanart.

scott s.
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