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I just have a question as well, recently I added an artist, it has cdart as per fanart.tv, the name of the artist is correct in xbmc as well as well as my folder, it is exactly the same on musicbrainz, and fanart.tv as well, but the artist is not showing up in cdart, i cannot locate this artist in cdart, it wont find any cdart or artist art either, doing a search in cdart manually shows the artist not listed either. Im not sure why, i know those details are grim but I am unsure what is wrong.


I refreshed the database as well as checked for missing mbid, refreshing the database as i watch the progress notices the artist, when I select check for missing mbids it skips right over it. And then the artist is also not accessible in cdart if i search artists.

If you go into Advanced -> Modify Database -> Edit Album -> Change MBID -> Select Artist, and artist list with MBIDs will show up. Then find your artist -> does the MBID match? If so, select the artist, now the album should show up -> does the Album MBID match? If so, verify that the MBID on fanart.tv matches the MBID on MusicBrainz. Sometimes MBID gets updated on MusicBrainz since the artist was added to fanart.tv, this causes the problem. For instance Beyoncé has been updated on MusicBrainz, but fanart.tv has the old MBID. The work around is to change the MBID in cdART Manager for the artist(done by Edit Artist -. Change MBID)

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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.

Even if Martijn removes the function from Artwork Downloader, that wouldn't leave you high and dry. It would open up a spot for a scheduling script that could be triggered by a specific time to run scripts like Artwork Downloader and cdART Manager. Both Artwork Downloader and cdART Manager have the ability to be triggered from outside means(ie a skin or another script) though cdART Manager does not have these functions yet open to the public(I was waiting until certain things were added to XBMC first )

Hmm that does give me an Idea.... I have to see if someone else has started such a project...