Hi, I'm a new user having recently migrated from Ember (finally had enough of it crashing and freezing every time I tried to update a show) and so far I really love Media Companion more. Seems far more reliable. However there is one thing Ember could do that Media Companion doesn't seem to be able to do, and that is support different fanart for different seasons of a tv show. Is there any way this feature could be added? It was really nice to be able to see different backdrops for each season especially for longer running shows.
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Season Fanart support was added to MC only recently, and I can not seem to find when I introduced this.
But, the season fanart is obtained via FanartTv site, not by TheTvDb site which MC is shying away from. You may need to sign up for a personal API Key (free) and paste this into MC in the Preferences -> Common Settings tab.
Also, this is no longer called fanart, but Landscape in keeping with the Kodi Naming convention.
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Indeed, fanart.tv calling "background" what is for kodi "fanart", and "TV Thumbs" what is for kodi "landscape".
Glad to see fanart.tv supporting them now as an own artwork type and also you implemented it to MC. Much appreciated! Not so happy to hear you wanna shying away from fanart.tv. It's still the best source for artwork. The kind of "API key wall" was necessary, as there has often been server request bombing in the past, which increased server costs & website crashes. The website also still does not cover its costs (donation based) after all this years.
Edit: The scraping is functional fine, as it should! On clicking around the seasons in MC, on season poster & banner there is a preview shown instead of the main artwork. Is it maybe a good idea, if a tvshow landscape is there to show this instead of the main tvshow fanart?
I also use only for Doctor Who (2005) season fanart (background). Some skins support them (season01-fanart.jpg) but its nothing offical out there (because not scrapeable, only for manual copy paste). Also for this, this function seems not to be reserved when clicking around in Doctor Who (2005) seasons in MC. So maybe give a think to show a preview of tvshow season landscape (if avaiable) instead of main fanart in the image preview section in seasons.
Last edit: chrissix666 2022-03-22
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Hi, I'm a new user having recently migrated from Ember (finally had enough of it crashing and freezing every time I tried to update a show) and so far I really love Media Companion more. Seems far more reliable. However there is one thing Ember could do that Media Companion doesn't seem to be able to do, and that is support different fanart for different seasons of a tv show. Is there any way this feature could be added? It was really nice to be able to see different backdrops for each season especially for longer running shows.
Season Fanart support was added to MC only recently, and I can not seem to find when I introduced this.
But, the season fanart is obtained via FanartTv site, not by TheTvDb site which MC is shying away from. You may need to sign up for a personal API Key (free) and paste this into MC in the Preferences -> Common Settings tab.
Also, this is no longer called fanart, but Landscape in keeping with the Kodi Naming convention.
Indeed, fanart.tv calling "background" what is for kodi "fanart", and "TV Thumbs" what is for kodi "landscape".
Glad to see fanart.tv supporting them now as an own artwork type and also you implemented it to MC. Much appreciated! Not so happy to hear you wanna shying away from fanart.tv. It's still the best source for artwork. The kind of "API key wall" was necessary, as there has often been server request bombing in the past, which increased server costs & website crashes. The website also still does not cover its costs (donation based) after all this years.
Edit: The scraping is functional fine, as it should! On clicking around the seasons in MC, on season poster & banner there is a preview shown instead of the main artwork. Is it maybe a good idea, if a tvshow landscape is there to show this instead of the main tvshow fanart?
I also use only for Doctor Who (2005) season fanart (background). Some skins support them (season01-fanart.jpg) but its nothing offical out there (because not scrapeable, only for manual copy paste). Also for this, this function seems not to be reserved when clicking around in Doctor Who (2005) seasons in MC. So maybe give a think to show a preview of tvshow season landscape (if avaiable) instead of main fanart in the image preview section in seasons.
Last edit: chrissix666 2022-03-22
Apologies but not leaving fanarttv, but thetvdb.
since their change to pay to use, and API V4, MC is not using TheTVDb site as much.