2010-12-09, 00:31
As many of you know I have never liked using the library mode. It just not consistent enough for me and my file organization OCD. So with that said no the answer to my question is not, nor ever will be "use the library mode"
Ok the question. While in File mode, in a skin like media stream with fanart enabled the display of fanart is inconstant *IF* you have your files in separate folders. Here is what I mean:
IF my folder "Movies" has folders in it with movies (named of course for the movie) and their related files inside it XBMC will look inside for a fanart.jpg file to display, if it doesn't find one it shows nothing. Once I enter the folder (a diff complaint as it should default to playing the file anyway and not make me press play if there is only a single playable file inside but i digress) it will not show fanart.jpg it instead looks for and displays "filename-fanart.jpg" if that is not foudn then nothing is displayed for fanart.
So is this an issue of skin coding or default behavior in XBMC? Shouldn't it look for fanart.jpg and failing that then look for filename-fanart.jpg in both cases? Or just settle on one file to look for?
Ok the question. While in File mode, in a skin like media stream with fanart enabled the display of fanart is inconstant *IF* you have your files in separate folders. Here is what I mean:
IF my folder "Movies" has folders in it with movies (named of course for the movie) and their related files inside it XBMC will look inside for a fanart.jpg file to display, if it doesn't find one it shows nothing. Once I enter the folder (a diff complaint as it should default to playing the file anyway and not make me press play if there is only a single playable file inside but i digress) it will not show fanart.jpg it instead looks for and displays "filename-fanart.jpg" if that is not foudn then nothing is displayed for fanart.
So is this an issue of skin coding or default behavior in XBMC? Shouldn't it look for fanart.jpg and failing that then look for filename-fanart.jpg in both cases? Or just settle on one file to look for?