Mntz Wrote:So people can make their own fanart (images/colors) for movies/music and upload it to the projectwebsite. (thetvdb.com?)
Hello guys, and I am so glad to see this thread here because Fan Art (or the lack of it) is my pet peeve about xbmc.
XBMC is fantastic, but the use of "FAN ART" to display images of an artist while you are listening to their music, is a great idea, but does not work at all because it relies on people like you and me to upload fan art... and now, years after the idea began, still xbmc shows 95% of music with no fan art.
My suggestion is not to encourage people to create fan art, that seems a total waste of time. Have a look at how the excellent J River Media Center deals with it... they use live google image search to find and display a slide show of results as you listen to the music... now that is really fantastic.
Google Images is a WAY better way to do it, you just need search the Artist Name, and then Album Name, and display the results. Easy and a lot more entertaining... even if the images are not quite what you would expect, its better than seeing a blank screen, which is the case 95% of the time with "Fan Art".
Please see my short youtube video demonstrating the current problem:
watch here
I really hope XBMC sort this one out, it would make a huge difference to how enjoyable the software is to use.
Thanks,
Mark, UK.
PS. I will post this as a separate post also, so it gets noted as a feature request.