[giftie]

Hi giftie, thanks for making this script! I've been waiting for something like this for ages!

I have a couple of questions that I hope you can help me with.

(I'm running XBMC live Dharma 10.1 from USB, streaming music from a Windows 7 machine using SMB)

1. Do I have to set a music path? If I leave the default setting (nothing) will it save art at the location the music files are stored?

Also: is the extrafanart path handled the same way?

2. How do I set the music path if my music files are stored in two separate shares?

Also: is the extrafanart path handled the same way?

3. Do I have to manually create an extrafanart folder within the artist folder, or will cdART Manager create one automatically?

The Music Path is needed for a couple of reasons, Skins that are using ClearLogos need to be able to source the path to the Artist level of the file storage. Most if not all use a method of adding the artist name to the supplied Music Path.

This also creates some problems. If your artist name is slightly different than your path things can get interesting...

For example the artist P!nk, your music path may be /music/Pink/Funhouse but you id3tagger has the artist as P!nk. The skin looks for /music/P!nk/logo.png, so it would not find the logo.png if it was stored in music/Pink. I have the script trying to make a directory that matchs your music path and artist(as stored by XBMC), the reason I say 'try' is because with the changes in Eden, cause some issues with network drives(smb://)

So the script does(tries) make the proper folders for logos and extrafanart(if it is a locally mapped drive, it works really well) I also do believe that Extra fanart works the same way(well I know it does on Transparency!)

So short answers:

1. yes you need to enter a Music Path(make it the same one you use for your Skin)
   
2. You can set your main path(the one that stores the most of your music) and the script will fill in the missing blanks if it can
   
3. The script is able to make the final paths for the artwork