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Also, if anyone has backdrops they want me to add in bulk, please PM me with a link to each set. That will allow me to keep track of what's going on. Additionally, they MUST be named so they have the IMDB ID in the filename. The MeediOS ones are perfect... <IMDBID>.jpg. I can do a bulk resize on my end, so it's fine if they're 1920x1080. PLEASE still send me a PM, though, since I don't want to upload duplicates if someone starts uploading a set already.
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Ahh, thanks for the reply. That clears up my questions. One more for you though. I did not see any mention of standards for fanart. I think it should be handled in a similar manner to thetvdb. ie no resized crap quality, no LOGOS, etc etc. What do you think? Also I was going to go through and add all the posters from CRNI but it looks like you have that covered so I will only do the ones I have personally made. Cheers.
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just added 80 in 30 mins!
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Yeah, no resized garbage and no logos if at all possible. I'll be tweaking the design this weekend in order to drop those annoying iframes and I'll put that text on the site at the same time.
I'll also be adding a donation button on the site. The server space is being provided by another XBMC user. He has cancer and as a result has expensive medicine costs. I figured I'd ask anyone using the site to try contributing a few bucks so we can try covering his monthly drug costs.
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Very cool! If we could get music fanart scraped as well I think your site would get more use. Games are cool too, except now with multiple platforms I can foresee it being harder to get a game scraper. Cheers.
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Has anyone here tried the previously mentioned patch for IMDB's scraper? If so what kind of results?
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To be honest I don't know if it does .. it's an open source photo gallery called coppermine .. I looked at allmusic but I couldn't see an artist ID to use to link the images to (like szsori uses the IMDB number) .
If there is one then you could use that as a tag (maybe with a prefix?) to single out the artist ...
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Hey, szsori...I didn't check the images yet, but I was wondering if you had my pack uploaded to the site already, or if I need to re-name all of the images in it to imdb numbers?
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I can also confirm that the patch does work. Now here is my question. Obviously there aren't a lot of backdrops yet since it was littlerly just put up. That means a lot of my movies don't have fanart for them. If I run the scraper again, it doesn't check for new fanart. I actually just uploaded a fanart picture and tried just to make sure. Is it even possible to incorporate a feature into the scraper that checks to see if new fanart is uploaded for those that don't have it yet?