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What is the / your problem?
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Are you saying that Fanart needs to be renamed to Thumbs?
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Could you tell whats wrong?
This makes a bit of a puzzle still
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2017-08-16, 08:56
(This post was last modified: 2017-08-16, 08:56 by myron.)
Kodi somewhen changed it's NFO format to support more than one image per type in NFO.
Nevertheless, when having a local image file, this has always precedence over thos in NFO (at least, this is my last information)
Furthermore, Kodi should be pretty backward compatible, so it should read quite fine...
We have already changed the format for TMM v3...
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I have never experienced that. I have one computer that is not connected to the internet, and it does scrape both the nfo file and local artwork.
Maybe post a screenshot of Windows Explorer (or equivelant) showing what is in your movie directory.
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(This post was last modified: 2017-08-24, 07:26 by mchp92.)
I think this is much related to an issue i have been having for a long time. I have addressed this in a few threads i started here too.
When i add stuff to my library, i always make sure it has nfo file plus all artwork downloaded into my media lib before i let kodi scrape it. I use TMM for this purpose.
I find that if tmm doesnt download fanart and banner etc, but needs to go through manual selection, it does create all the files but kodi isnt gona scrape them.
By manual selection i mean either of the following
(1) opening the movie details dialogue, and then clicking the box for eg fanart, and then choosing one of the (many) images showing up (apparently tmm doesnt choose one by itsef)
(2) opening same dialogue, and pasting an imag url and then downloading and selecting that fanart (or thumb)
I these cases i virtually always have to go into kodis movie information, and manually select the fanart.
I guess above posting saying that once a nfo is found, kodi then no longer loading the fanart.jpg, only partly explains it. When i select fanart manually in tmm, i believe (havent exhaustively verified tho) that tmm DOES put an image url in the nfo. Leaves me puzzled why kodi still doesnt scrape
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just tried it - works for me.
Scraped a movie, and exchanged the saved images (so different from those written into NFO)
Let Kodi scan with local information only.
My updated & local saved images are displayed, the ones written in NFO are ignored.
I have Kodi v17 plain, no addons or such installed.
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It seems like that - i cant be the only one. Maybe i am overlooking something. I will upload a few sets of files to somewhere for maybe you to give it a go on your kodi?
- what is the best place to upload them?
- is there any movie clip available (which i can rename to the appropriate actual name) that i can use and not violate any copy rights?