[giftie]

Settings:
Files & Folders

Path to music library

This path represents the path skins use to access the ClearLOGOs(logo.png), fanart, extrafanart, Artist Thumbnails and Music banners on an artist level. This path does not need to point directly to your music library if you don't want to clutter up your music with ClearLOGOs or extrafanart. You can set up an 'Artwork' path which both your skins and the script will point to.

cdART Backup Folder

This is the path where you would like your cdARTs to be copied to if you use the backup feature from the Advanced menu in the script.

Enable saving of missing.txt file

If enabled, the script will save a missing.txt file at the closing of the script.

Path for missing.txt file - active only if above is turned on.

This is the path where you would like the missing.txt file to be stored. In this file shows the albums/artists that are missing artwork. An 'X' means the art work is there and empty box means there is no artwork on your system

Backup Saving Format

There are two choices here. Artist/Album.png or Artist - Album.png. This is used by the script to name the cdARTs when using one of the backup options from the Advanced menu. Since normally all the cdARTs are named cdart.png the script needs to rename them when storing them in the backup folder.


Custom Colours

This is where you get to select the colouring of the text labels you want displayed within the script.


Extra Settings

Overwrite Low-Res Existing cdARTs

If enabled, the script will look at the resolution of the local cdART and compare it to the one found on fanart.tv. If the local is smaller than 1000x1000 and the one on fanart.tv is 1000x1000 it will download from fanart.tv. This only is used for automatic download, as you can always overwrite when using the manual method. Also Cover Arts(folder.jpg) will always be overwritten as fanart.tv only has the resolution of 1000x1000 available.

Notify During Background Database Build

If enabled, the script will use the XBMC notification popup to show Artist & Album info while the background db is being built. This can be pretty noisy if you have skin sounds turned on.

Notify At End of Background Database Build

If enabled, the script will use the XBMC notification popup to show that the DB is finished being built(it is also displayed for 2 seconds)

Build Database in Background

Clicking on this will start the script building the Database in the Background. This allows you to continue on enjoying XBMC while the script does it's thing. To exit the settings, just click on the 'OK' button.

Update XBMC Thumbnails and Fanarts - Only works with Eden at this moment

This will trigger the script to find all your artwork files(except cdARTs) and overwrite the ones stored in the userdata/Thumbnails/Music folder

Add all artist to Database during Database build or update

If enabled, the script will add/update all the local artist(including those found on compilations) to/in the Database

Enable MusicBrainz ID update during Addon Database update(for missing IDs)

If enabled, the script will update any missing MusicBrainz IDs that may have been missed in the past during a Database Update(useful for those database created with version 2.5.1).

Check Database MBIDs to be current during an Update

If enabled, the script will check the MBIDs for the albums/artists contained in the scripts database against MusicBrainz then if necessary update them to the latest. This will add a lot of time to the update as it takes time to check MusicBrainz

Skins That Feature cdART: - See here for the most uptodate info

Transperency!
Night - all variations(Purity, Neon)
The Carmichael
Shade
Aeon MQ 2 & 3
Aeon65
Alaska Revisited MOD
Cirrus - all variations - though it spins too fast and not proportioned nicely to album cover
Aeon Nox


There may be other skins that can display cdART with mods. If you see one, please post the thread link and I'll have it posted here for all to see...

Important Threads
Best Folder Arrangement -> http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...pid1111997
MusicBrainz Picard Setup -> http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...pid1102795

Useful tools
Bliss - > http://www.blisshq.com/ - for reorganizing the structure of your music folder

Steps for reporting problems/bugs

http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Log_file/Easy

I'm not trying to be rude, or negative, but when reporting a bug or a problem you are having please follow the following....

Step 1: Put XBMC into Debug Mode - link
Step 2: Restart XBMC
Step 3: If you have addons that run automatically at start of XBMC(Sharethe.TV, Weather.com Plus, etc.) wait a few minutes for these scripts to run
Step 4: Run cdART Manager
Step 5: Upload your FULL xbmc.log file to pastebin.com

Method 1:

Use the XBMC Log Script

Method 2:

Manually locate your xbmc.log file - see Here for location
Copy and paste xbmc.log to pastebin.com

If you feel you have private information that you don't want the public be able to see, setup an account on pastebin.com and store it as a private paste.

Step 6: Create a new forum message on this thread, which contains steps to reproduce, your pastebin url


Using these steps will allow me to find the problem and repair it for the next release.