2012-08-29, 04:28
(2012-08-27, 13:38)MrShique Wrote: Hi,
although some of my questions have been probably been covered in one or another way, I'd still like to ask them for the current cdart-Manager-version.
I am using several music folders on different hard drives. Therefore, I'm using a meta-folder in cdart-manager placed on my local HTPC-SSD. The problem with this solution: It only stores the artist-specific files, like fanarts or thumbs, but the album-specific files, like cdart or album covers, aren't stored. On the other hand, even if I enter the actual music folder as the folder in cdart-manager, it still creates folders for artists like AC/DC besides the ACDC-folder, which already exists (the folders where the MP3s in the album folders are stored). This is of course no problem when using a local folder for fanarts, but within the actual music collection, this is quite confusing.
Is there some way to avoid this, which I have overlooked? Or would it be possible to select different sources for fanarts, thumbs and so on on the one hand and actual music-collection-folders, where the cdarts and album covers shall be stored?
// Edit: cdart-Manager-version:2.6.5, XBMC-Version: Eden
The 'path to Music Library' setting path is only used for Fanarts(extrafanarts) and Artist Thumbs. This is because XBMC does not have a path for these items directly. For cdARTs and Covers, the path is easily calculated.
The reason the script creates an AC/DC folder(actually two, AC then DC inside) is because how the forward slash '/' is handled. When a skin looks for the artist AC/DC(and it looks by name, not ACDC) it supplies XBMC the path 'path to music library'/AC/DC/fanart.jpg. I made the script follow how skins worked. This won't be necessary in the next Release of XBMC(Frodo) as they will provide a method for 'Non-Official' Artwork for addons to store in the library.