2009-06-12, 19:16
Thanks for that! Yeah maybe some optimizations like only reloading information that has changed. Like only reloading studio tags images if thats all that changed. But I know this can be very tricky to do, an all encompasing refresh is much easier / less prone to bugs, but not as nice for the user in the end, not a big one but something to look into I guess.
Lots Of Duplicates
I just found something that might be considered a bug. I think to be really successful the software should be able to check for duplicates before saving any type of image but this problem I found might go a little further than that.
I am manually going through movies to download extrathumbs (from fan art section). Taking a while but I don't mind until emm can do this. Probably doesn't make sense in a way downloading fanart to extrathumbs but hey.
I just went into a movie and scraped all fan art, checked all high quality images (nice feature), and selected an image I would ilke as fanart. Clicked OK, all is fine. I noticed the image I selected wasn't 1920 x 1080 so I went back in to and rescraped again (only took half a second because images were in cache). I did the same again, selected all high quality images I want as image thumbs, and selected a new fanart.
I was slightly surprised to see double the number of extra thumbs I was expecting.... There is no mechanism at all yet to stop duplicates? I am just thinking in the future, and if hopefully a feature to download all fanart available to say extrathumbs like I am doing... then I won't just get an update of images (some extras), I will get hundreds / thousands of duplicates because there is no checking....
Basically pleading that this be added soon as for alot of users I am sure its crucial to have crc checks that will show (Already downloaded) so a user can't check it, and the auto updater will never duplicate. Adding to feature request page now
Lots Of Duplicates
I just found something that might be considered a bug. I think to be really successful the software should be able to check for duplicates before saving any type of image but this problem I found might go a little further than that.
I am manually going through movies to download extrathumbs (from fan art section). Taking a while but I don't mind until emm can do this. Probably doesn't make sense in a way downloading fanart to extrathumbs but hey.
I just went into a movie and scraped all fan art, checked all high quality images (nice feature), and selected an image I would ilke as fanart. Clicked OK, all is fine. I noticed the image I selected wasn't 1920 x 1080 so I went back in to and rescraped again (only took half a second because images were in cache). I did the same again, selected all high quality images I want as image thumbs, and selected a new fanart.
I was slightly surprised to see double the number of extra thumbs I was expecting.... There is no mechanism at all yet to stop duplicates? I am just thinking in the future, and if hopefully a feature to download all fanart available to say extrathumbs like I am doing... then I won't just get an update of images (some extras), I will get hundreds / thousands of duplicates because there is no checking....
Basically pleading that this be added soon as for alot of users I am sure its crucial to have crc checks that will show (Already downloaded) so a user can't check it, and the auto updater will never duplicate. Adding to feature request page now