[Ghostdivision]

Forgive me if this has been asked, but is there any chance you could include an option to run on startup like Artwork downloader addon that way we can completely automate the process?

Hate to bring this up again, but would an option to run cdart on startup not work?

I often find myself forgetting to manually go in and use it, if it could run and automatic download art based on settings you specify like album art downloader does it would be fantastic.

Is this simply not an option or not one you would want to add?

I wouldn't advice this because that cause some serious load on the server.
I'm actually starting to think about removing it from Artwork Downloader to.
Only difference is that one has a 7 day cache so it doesn't hit the server.

Is it that difficult to remember that you need to run the script? It's not like every day there are 100's of new cover an cdarts that you would actually need? It will be just a waste of valuable resources

Please do not remove it. Yes some of us are not hardcore xbmc users, we have families and are very busy and dont think about running scripts when we sit down to use xbmc or watch a video or listen to music, automation is a key component of xbmc especially when it comes to artwork. Manually remembering to run a script to grab artwork is not what everyone has in mind with xbmc, grabbing artwork automatically imo is a huge part of what xbmc is about, i know many other users appreciate it as well.

XBMC the entire program itself is very automated, especially when it comings to scrapping music, album art, movie art, tv show art,synopsis, ratings ect....... The issue itself of clicking to run a script is not hard but its not the issue, its a very limited viewpoint, when i use xbmc i sit down to watch a movie, or listen to music, i dont think "well I better run cdart, and soon i better also run artwork downloader" The act itself of clicking is not hard by any means, but remembering to do it, and having to run it manually each day or each time i add a movie or tv show or if my family adds one would be tedious. I know most users participating on here are very into xbmc and its not hard for us to remember to run scripts, but their are also many general users elsewhere, avsforum.com has a large xbmc user group i interact with, many of them also have families who use xbmc (wives and children) with little knowledge of its working, and appreciate its hands free approach to scrapping metadata.

Trying to get my wife or small child (12) each who have their own xbmc profiles to remember to manually select and run various scripts just wont happen either. Its actually one of the reasons I chose xbmc, because as it stands now whenever they or myself add a show or music xbmc scrapes it automatically when it launches requiring no effort from the end user. I have xbmc set to restart every morning at 2am while we are sleeping so whenever we use it later that day, all the fanart is scrapped nicely for us thanks to your script and ready to go. Not to mention running these scrips takes a couple minutes, when you want to just watch a movie or tv show at the end of the day manually waiting a few minutes for each script to finish as well seems undesirable every day..


If it helps I would gladly try to help donate money if it would help improve the server. Likewise with this script as well.