2011-06-29, 14:35
Quote:The thumbnails directory is where XBMC looks for covers/thumbs for all the media it displays. When you scan content in to your library, XBMC either scrapes the artwork from the net or reads it from a file in your movie folder and then puts a copy in the thumbnails folder. From there on out it will retrieve the image from the thumbnails directory, not the file in your movie folder.
In other words, I'm right in my last post?
Even though media manager has downloaded all the information on my server, XBMC will ONLY get this information while doing the initial scraping, and store it locally, meaning the other clients which doesn't scrape (because it's already in the library) will not get their correct covers + thumbs.
So - Lifehacker is a bit wrong when they write their article like the Media Manager being an alternative to creating a share for Thumbnails?
So the only thing I now have to do, is to copy out the thumbnails from the "perfectly working" client to the server, and then setup a share + shortcuts, and everyone's happy?