It seems with Kodi Leia v18 and the encouragement of rmrector and some other leading Kodi skinners, that we are migrating away from seperate folders for extrafanart. This is something I welcome after discovering the massive hit to scanning time in PLEX of libraries due to the added directories. Difference in scan time on a library of 3000+ files went from like 5 minutes to an hour?
This is entirely a PLEX issue that could be fixed by ignoring certain items during scan but they don't seem to care to make this editable via xml or otherwise.
.plexignore only ignores the items AFTER the scan.. gee thanks - for nothing!
initial fix was to hide the extrafanart extrathumbs folders by renaming them with a period prefix and editing Kodi skins. Yada Yada ...
anyhow, request is to offer the ability to save extrafanart/extrathumbs to the local directory WITHOUT forcing into a subfolder.
in other words, a checkbox to say - 'save in extraxxx subfolder' or save direct to 'local directory'. Or make it configurable via xml. Default for Kodi going forward appears to not be using the subfolder while Emby at this point does use the extra subfolder for fanart.
Currently, I use MC as is but then manually move artwork out of the subfolders to be compatible with the latest gen Kodi skins. Surely there's a tool for that, right? :o
Last edit: ez009 2020-08-31
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This is to do with eg:
<moviename>-fanart1.jpg
<moviename>-fanart2.jpg
<moviename>-fanart3.jpg
<moviename>-fanart4.jpg
etc??</moviename></moviename></moviename></moviename>
and
<moviename>-poster1.jpg
<moviename>-poster2.jpg
<moviename>-poster3.jpg
<moviename>-poster4.jpg
etc</moviename></moviename></moviename></moviename>
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i'm not sure what you mean there..
what i'm referring to is, MC stores extra fanart in separate subfolders.
This has been the standard in the past.
ie: [moviename]/extrafanart/fanart0.jpg (- fanart9.jpg etc) [moviename]/extrathumbs/thumb0.jpg (-thumb9.jpg etc)
The standard going forward is to NOT put them in a subfolder.
ie: [moviename]/fanart0.jpg (- fanart9.jpg etc) [moviename]/thumb0.jpg (- thumb9.jpg etc)
The default going forward should be to NOT use a subfolder but provide an option in preferences for backward compatability. Even better would to be able to specify a subfolder name should the option be enabled. (even if this were located in an xml config somewhere)
for example I would like the scraper to put extrafanart in the movie folder
however I might want to put extra thumbs in a specially named directory [.extra_thumbs]
being able to configure this in preferences of MC would be a major help as opposed to having to use filebot or some other bulk renaming tool to redo this after the fact.
Last edit: ez009 2020-09-05
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Naming and format of multiple fanart or thumb images is something I will be working on very soon, and will also include multiple posters either in the format of
<moviename>-fanart0.jpg
<moviename>-fanart1.jpg etc
or
fanart0.jpg
fanart1.jpg etc</moviename></moviename>
Specifying a specific folder would break the current functionality of extra artwork addons as it is not the normal /extrafanart folder or naming like above. This feature will not be introduced to MC. It has to be in
/extrafanart
/extrathumbs folders
or naming as ArtworkBeef author would prefer.
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Thx .. the idea of extrafanart being stored in the main folder as opposed to a subfolder is something that, as far as I can tell, is endorsed by rmrector - the artworkbeef author
note under the movies section Fanart- Extra - under the the a/beef column fanart# is preferred.
the alternate column lists \extrafanart\fanart(1-9)
with the accepted method being fanart# (2)
with the asterik in the footnotes being:
(2) Extra Fanart is located in the main folder, not the "extrafanart" subfolder
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The option of specifying a folder name would obviously be for advanced users and would be a nice tool but the most basic request in keeping with leia18 and 19 going fwd would be to have an option to choose whether extrafanart goes into the main folder or the extrafanart subfolder. if there could be checkbox to toggle one or the other would be ideal.
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It seems with Kodi Leia v18 and the encouragement of rmrector and some other leading Kodi skinners, that we are migrating away from seperate folders for extrafanart. This is something I welcome after discovering the massive hit to scanning time in PLEX of libraries due to the added directories. Difference in scan time on a library of 3000+ files went from like 5 minutes to an hour?
This is entirely a PLEX issue that could be fixed by ignoring certain items during scan but they don't seem to care to make this editable via xml or otherwise.
.plexignore only ignores the items AFTER the scan.. gee thanks - for nothing!
initial fix was to hide the extrafanart extrathumbs folders by renaming them with a period prefix and editing Kodi skins. Yada Yada ...
but there is a general performance benefit as described here https://rmrector.github.io/script.artwork.beef/skins/whyreplaceextra/
some discussion of the topic here https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=331822&pid=2734388#pid2734388
anyhow, request is to offer the ability to save extrafanart/extrathumbs to the local directory WITHOUT forcing into a subfolder.
in other words, a checkbox to say - 'save in extraxxx subfolder' or save direct to 'local directory'. Or make it configurable via xml. Default for Kodi going forward appears to not be using the subfolder while Emby at this point does use the extra subfolder for fanart.
Currently, I use MC as is but then manually move artwork out of the subfolders to be compatible with the latest gen Kodi skins. Surely there's a tool for that, right? :o
Last edit: ez009 2020-08-31
This is to do with eg:
<moviename>-fanart1.jpg
<moviename>-fanart2.jpg
<moviename>-fanart3.jpg
<moviename>-fanart4.jpg
etc??</moviename></moviename></moviename></moviename>
and
<moviename>-poster1.jpg
<moviename>-poster2.jpg
<moviename>-poster3.jpg
<moviename>-poster4.jpg
etc</moviename></moviename></moviename></moviename>
i'm not sure what you mean there..
what i'm referring to is, MC stores extra fanart in separate subfolders.
This has been the standard in the past.
ie: [moviename]/extrafanart/fanart0.jpg (- fanart9.jpg etc)
[moviename]/extrathumbs/thumb0.jpg (-thumb9.jpg etc)
The standard going forward is to NOT put them in a subfolder.
ie: [moviename]/fanart0.jpg (- fanart9.jpg etc)
[moviename]/thumb0.jpg (- thumb9.jpg etc)
The default going forward should be to NOT use a subfolder but provide an option in preferences for backward compatability. Even better would to be able to specify a subfolder name should the option be enabled. (even if this were located in an xml config somewhere)
for example I would like the scraper to put extrafanart in the movie folder
however I might want to put extra thumbs in a specially named directory [.extra_thumbs]
being able to configure this in preferences of MC would be a major help as opposed to having to use filebot or some other bulk renaming tool to redo this after the fact.
Last edit: ez009 2020-09-05
Naming and format of multiple fanart or thumb images is something I will be working on very soon, and will also include multiple posters either in the format of
<moviename>-fanart0.jpg
<moviename>-fanart1.jpg etc
or
fanart0.jpg
fanart1.jpg etc</moviename></moviename>
Specifying a specific folder would break the current functionality of extra artwork addons as it is not the normal /extrafanart folder or naming like above. This feature will not be introduced to MC. It has to be in
/extrafanart
/extrathumbs folders
or naming as ArtworkBeef author would prefer.
Thx .. the idea of extrafanart being stored in the main folder as opposed to a subfolder is something that, as far as I can tell, is endorsed by rmrector - the artworkbeef author
see https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=331822&pid=2734991#pid2734991
note under the movies section Fanart- Extra - under the the a/beef column fanart# is preferred.
the alternate column lists \extrafanart\fanart(1-9)
with the accepted method being fanart# (2)
with the asterik in the footnotes being:
(2) Extra Fanart is located in the main folder, not the "extrafanart" subfolder
Yes, this i something I need to work on and get MC to handle either method of storing Extra fanart or thumbs...or posters etc.
The option of specifying a folder name would obviously be for advanced users and would be a nice tool but the most basic request in keeping with leia18 and 19 going fwd would be to have an option to choose whether extrafanart goes into the main folder or the extrafanart subfolder. if there could be checkbox to toggle one or the other would be ideal.
Available in MC 3.752b onwards.