(2013-05-02, 04:39)scott967 Wrote: Not sure what the requirement is, but prior to 3.5.6.2.c I had art as moviename-fanart and and moviename-poster. If I check the movie preference to save art as fanart and poster instead, the existing art using the other name convention no longer is displayed in the browser. Seems like it should still be displayed?

scott s.
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(2013-05-02, 14:52)greybeard Wrote: Now that MC is not renaming my movie files, I am finding trouble with posters and fanart in tv-shows. I am running a new install of Win 7 Ultimate 64-bit. Each series has its own folder within a folder named tv-shows. There are no season folders. Episodes are named series-nxnn-hb-di.mp4. (handbrake-deinterlaced). It seems that when I first ran 3.562b that all the art that was there showed up, but even though all of the series have folder.jpg, fanart.jpg, season-all.tbn, season01.tbn, etc., only fanart.jpg is being displayed by 3.562c, but only for some series. I have "Both" selected in the General Preferences. If I select the Poster button it displays the current season*.tbn on the right, even though the Main Browser is not showing it. If I try to D/L a new poster from TVDb All by clicking that button then selecting the poster by clicking the radio button under it, then I get a box telling me something about cannot access folder.jpg because it is open by another process (almost certainly the process that is displaying it on the right). Then if I go to another window (like this one) to check something and I go back to MC, it is frozen waiting for me to type OK in the box, but the box is buried and does not show up on the Task Bar so I have to kill it using Task Manager. I tried to OCR the screenshot of the error message but HP Solution Center is hosed right now.

Any clues?

(2013-05-02, 04:44)vbat99 Wrote:

(2013-05-02, 04:39)scott967 Wrote: Not sure what the requirement is, but prior to 3.5.6.2.c I had art as moviename-fanart and and moviename-poster. If I check the movie preference to save art as fanart and poster instead, the existing art using the other name convention no longer is displayed in the browser. Seems like it should still be displayed?

scott s.
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A bit muddled there, but your saying existing moviename-fanart and -poster are not displaying if New Movies? scraped in format fanart.jpg and poster.jpg?

Your wanting any variation in fanart or poster to be displayed, no matter what the saving convention is set to? How will you know if you have artwork missing??

I'll have to check how the code is working out what artwork is available, but the idea is to have consistent artwork for a user's movies, ie: all as poster.jpg/fanart.jpg or all as -poster.jpg/-fanart.jpg.

(2013-05-03, 02:19)scott967 Wrote:

(2013-05-02, 04:44)vbat99 Wrote:

(2013-05-02, 04:39)scott967 Wrote: Not sure what the requirement is, but prior to 3.5.6.2.c I had art as moviename-fanart and and moviename-poster. If I check the movie preference to save art as fanart and poster instead, the existing art using the other name convention no longer is displayed in the browser. Seems like it should still be displayed?

scott s.
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A bit muddled there, but your saying existing moviename-fanart and -poster are not displaying if New Movies? scraped in format fanart.jpg and poster.jpg?

Your wanting any variation in fanart or poster to be displayed, no matter what the saving convention is set to? How will you know if you have artwork missing??

I'll have to check how the code is working out what artwork is available, but the idea is to have consistent artwork for a user's movies, ie: all as poster.jpg/fanart.jpg or all as -poster.jpg/-fanart.jpg.

All I know is I installed the new 62c build, saw now the option to either use moviename-fanart or fanart for file names when I set up the build, so I thought I would try changing the default movie-fanart to fanart (and also posters) to see what difference it would make/test. So I added my movie folder and rescanned. None of my existing movies showed any fanart or posters which I found surprising. After changing the option back, then the art was displayed. I don't know what the right answer is. It seems like the user would like to know if either moviename-fanart or fanart was available, but I can see how it could get more and more complicated. I guess if it was up to me I would propose a requirement that if any valid art is available it gets displayed in the main browser view, and the naming conventions only apply to scraping new art.

scott s.
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(2013-05-03, 02:19)scott967 Wrote: All I know is I installed the new 62c build, saw now the option to either use moviename-fanart or fanart for file names when I set up the build, so I thought I would try changing the default movie-fanart to fanart (and also posters) to see what difference it would make/test. So I added my movie folder and rescanned. None of my existing movies showed any fanart or posters which I found surprising. After changing the option back, then the art was displayed. I don't know what the right answer is. It seems like the user would like to know if either moviename-fanart or fanart was available, but I can see how it could get more and more complicated. I guess if it was up to me I would propose a requirement that if any valid art is available it gets displayed in the main browser view, and the naming conventions only apply to scraping new art.

scott s.
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(2013-05-04, 17:40)greybeard Wrote: Please continue to support compatibility between Eden and later releases as long as possible. I have an AppleTV2 that I am not sure I can update because I never got it backed up.

I wish the way the art is tiled in "Main Browser" was user configurable because my TV folder.jpg's are almost all banners and I would like to see them in the banner location while using artwork = pre-frodo, but I also have some season*.jpg files that are banners. If I could specify where folder.jpg, fanart.jpg and season.tbn are displayed on the right screen in "Main Browser" if artwork=pre-frodo, then I could rationalize my filenaming in a pre-frodo setup. If artwork=frodo then the now hardcoded arrangement works with fanart and folder on top and banner beneath.

I agree that it is better to have uniquely named banners, posters, fanart, etc., but for those of us who have years old collections of thousands of movies and tv episodes, flexibility is a good thing. ARPANet/Internet got where it was in the '90s by following a philosophy of flexibility in accepting documents into programs.

As far as doing large scale renaming and deleting go, I have UNIX tools for Windows 7 installed and that gives very powerful scripting using ksh or csh.

(2013-05-04, 08:37)Livin Wrote: I think people should stick with one artwork method. Ideally, MC would have a 'cleanup' function that would allow the user to choose to delete the unused files - e.g. the files from the method not chosen. I'm moving everything to Frodo and really don't want to manually delete all the pre-Frodo files by hand.

(2013-05-04, 08:37)Livin Wrote: I think people should stick with one artwork method. Ideally, MC would have a 'cleanup' function that would allow the user to choose to delete the unused files - e.g. the files from the method not chosen. I'm moving everything to Frodo and really don't want to manually delete all the pre-Frodo files by hand.

(2013-05-05, 11:34)swehawk Wrote: Wouldn't you rather want to reuse your existing artwork by renaming your files? Ideally MC would have an option to do that for you, although there are several other ways to do that manually or semi-automatically.