[giftie]

Hello, Newbee here. I hope this is a quick and simple answer; Im wondering where cdart manager pulls Clear art logos from. I ask because I have some obscure artists that didnt have any artwork whatsoever. I added the fanart, artist image and logo to TheAudiodb.com site and all but the logo come through on XBMC.
Thanks, in advance.
Beercade

[EDIT]
I figured out that cdart manager actually pulls clear logos from fanart.tv, so adding them too theaudiodb was a huge waste of time. HOWEVER I have discovered that fanart.tv no longer supports uploading of clearart logos as before! Here was the reply after asking on the forum
"We’ve closed all the SD (standard definition) image sections. Use the HD (high definition) section instead. For music logos it’s called HD Music Logos and is at the top of most lists."

SO my bigger question is will this be addressed in the next update to the script? so it pulls art first from the HD clear art, then if none is found, check the SD art, because the SD logos from before are still there.
Thanks for all your hard work on this script.
Bercade

The method the script actually uses is that it requests both the SD and the HD logos from fanart.tv. The script then shows first the SD and then the HD. The dimensions of the images are displayed so the user can distinguish between SD and HD. fanart.tv still provides the existing SD images until the HD images are available.

Hello,
Could someone briefly explain the options in the Advanced menu and what these do in the background when you run them; Such as "refresh addon database" and "Update database"
Thanks,
in advance.

Refresh Addon Database - try to delete the database(works on all OSes but Windows) if it can't be deleted, it dumps everything out of it. - Useful if you wipe out XBMC's Music Library.

Update Addon Database - check for matches, then remove/change the differences between XBMC's Library and the addon's database.. Use this when new music is added to XBMC

/ " and other invalid characters cause odd issues. AC/DC is one where when I run CDManager it created a folder called AC and folder in that called DC then in that is the fanart and logo. A bigger issue though is with an artist "Brother" Jack McDuff https://musicbrainz.org/artist/e0cd33e5-...b07dd2c1d0
I dont get any artwork for this artist even though there is fanart.tv logos. Im guessing it can not create the folder because of the invalid character. Any work around ideas?
Thanks

The AC/DC instance is well documented in this forum and the reason why this is. The other one is caused by the use of the "(double quote). There is a file safe version, not sure what it is but all my "Weird Al" Yankovich show up properly. You may have to check to see that the script pulled the same MBID during it's search. To do so, use the Modify Database functions(Change Artist MBID).

If XBMC would make the handling of Music artwork the same as Video artwork there wouldn't be any problems. I was hoping that this would have happened for the next release(Gotham) but it doesn't seem like it..