Feature request --artwork atom in Atomic Parsley
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#1 Feature request --artwork atom in Atomic Parsley
Kevin,
I haven't spoken to you in a while. I hope you are well.
I recently switched to watching KMTTG video on an iPad, and noticed a huge problem. iPads don't display TV Shows by their name, it only displays them by their icons. (I can send you a screenshot if you aren't aware) The default icon is the 1st frame of the video.
So, I've been manually adding shows to iTunes, then applying the icon (from imdb or wherever) by hand, then sending them to my iPad. Today I discovered that Atomic Parsley can do this for us. So... What if...
- Add "--artwork "<path to="" jpg="" icon="">"" to the Atomic Parsley argument.</path>
- Allow the use of an "icons" directory inside the KMTTG directory where jpgs are stored.
- In the parsley step, have the --artwork argument look for a jpg with the same "title name"+.jpg or .png.
I was thinking this would be a nice addition for iPad users.
There already are hooks to do some of what you want. If you add the following field to the pyTivo metadata file (the .txt file), then when you run AtomicParsley it will pick it up.
artwork : path/to/jpg/here
Note that you can run AtomicParsley manually from the FILES tab.
Hmmm,
I'll take a look, but I'm not using this with pyTivo, I'm just making the mp4 file and dragging it to my ipad. I can almost achieve this with a custom command, but I don't see a [title] in the available args.
I see what you mean now. It does work, but it's not as automated as I would hope. I wonder how difficult it would be to add a default item the metadata file that included "artwork : "path to kmttg folder\Artwork\<title>.jpg""</p> <p>If you wanted to be fancy, you could replace "path to kmttg folder\Artwork\" with a preference path like you do with all of the apps.</p></title>
Last edit: AudioNutz 2013-08-08
I'm not going to have time for this anytime soon. The d release will probably go out this weekend and then I have vacation for a couple of weeks so I'll look into it after that. Any way you look at it though there has to be some manual work to at least generate a .jpg with matching name, so inserting a manual entry in metadata may be just as easy and won't require matching name.
Last edit: Kevin Moye 2013-08-09
Right,
Have a good vacation. I'll look at writing an external script as a temporary fix. I've already got jpgs with all the show titles in an Artwork folder, I just need the script to watch for each txt file to show up, and add that string of text.
Never did look into this, but did look into this a little yesterday and it doesn't seem to be worth the effort to me given there are hooks in place now from metadata file, or as you mentioned above, running a custom script to do it.