(2013-04-02, 15:45)cw-kid Wrote: How do you use CDArt Manager to download more than one fanart.jpg for a music artist ?
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Now I just need to work out how to get CDArt Manager to create these Extrafanart folders for artists ?

(2013-04-02, 18:07)cw-kid Wrote: OK I manually for one artist created a sub folder called Extrafanart I then added two fanart images called fanart1.jpg and fanart2.jpg then in the Aeon MQ4 Art menu I enabled Extrafanart and specified the path to my main root music directory. Now when I play an album by this artist I can see the two fanart images rotating so it works!

However what I can't seem to figure out is how to get CDArt Manager to create these Extrafanart sub-folders for me?

Many thanks.

EDIT:

OK I think I see what is going on now, I was using Artist Fanarts -> Select Artist -> Album Artists and just choosing one artist to test with. This doesnt seem to create the extrafanart sub-folder.

However if I use Automatic Download -> Album Artists then it does create the extrafanart sub-folders and in each extrafanart folder it creates fanart files which are named liked this:

Artistname-4e54cbbe31806.jpg
Artistname-4e54cbc6a2647.jpg

(2013-04-02, 20:09)cw-kid Wrote: I have a slight problem with some artists folder names.

In CDArt Manager the Artist ACDC is shown as AC/DC. It creates a folder called AC and then a sub-folder under that called DC and ignores my existing folder called ACDC. Obviously I cannot create a folder called AC/DC to match the name of the artist in CDArt Manager.


REM is another problem artist. In CDArt Manager they are shown as R.E.M.

After running a scan with CDArt Manager I always seem to end up with two folders for this artist.

R.E.M. and R.E.M

I have just deleted the R.E.M one in the hope that it will not return.

Thanks

EDIT: Later I could not access the R.E.M. folder, a message in Windows Explorer said it did not exist or something, I could still see the folder however. I could not delete it, I had to move it in to a new folder in order to then delete it. I then tried creating my own new folder called R.E.M. however Windows server just renames it all the time to R.E.M - no dot after the M

However when CDArt Manager scans it will create another R.E.M. folder and then I end up with two folders etc.

(2013-04-02, 21:01)cw-kid Wrote: Here is another one Spandau Ballet, however CDArt Manager creates a folder called Spandau Ballett which is spelt wrong. So I end up with two folders etc.

Checking the album in Mp3TAG it seems under the Album Artist tag, is where it is spelt incorrectly. So presumably this is where CDArt Manager picked it up from. I have corrected the spelling.

Had a similar issue with A-ha. In CDArt Manager I had two listings for the same artist, one spelt A-ha and the other A-Ha. I also corrected this on all their albums in MP3Tag and made sure all tags were set to be A-ha.

(2013-04-02, 23:40)cw-kid Wrote: Where do the extra fanarts get cached locally ?

Looking at the DJ Claude Challe & Ravin in the extrafanart folder is a picture of the classical composer Johann Sebastian Bach, which is obviously incorrect.
I deleted the fanart image from the extrafanart folder, but the image of Bach is still being shown in XBMC, so again it is caching them somewhere locally ?

(2013-04-03, 01:01)cw-kid Wrote: With the few problem artists I mentioned I have renamed their folders and tags

Claude Challe & Ravin -> Claude Challe
Count Ossie & Mystic Revelation of Rastafari -> Count Ossie
Eric Clapton & B.B. King -> B.B. King
Kenny Rogers & The First Edition -> Kenny Rogers and The First Edition
Paul McCartney and Wings -> Paul McCartney & Wings
The Ska & Reggae All-Stars (Not renamed)
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers -> Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

Not sure why it was picking up Bach but I am guessing the artist names are not quite correct and that is why CDArt Manager is not handling them correctly.

I've updated the XBMC Music Library and I am now updating the add-on database could take a while.

I also renamed A-ha to a-ha all lower case as you suggested thanks.

(2013-04-03, 01:45)john.doe Wrote: have encountered the same "script failed" error on android when trying to run cdART as some other people in this thread. here is the log http://xbmclogs.com/show.php?id=9307

(2013-04-03, 02:34)giftie Wrote: The log does not show why the script failed, no errors at all(in regards of the script) Something seems wrong with the logging system(XBMC Android). With out the proper output, I don't know where to start.

There might be a problem with importing the PIL module, but I can't be 100% as the log lacks the info.

(2013-04-04, 06:27)slandells Wrote: Further to the above, is there any way to remove an MBID from an artist? The ones that are matched to Bach simply don't have a match, as it is mostly a combination of artists that appear once on an Album or such (ie. Van Morrison & Cliff Richard). I can't really go through and correct them, as there is nothing to correct them to (and if you simply cut the search down to Van Morrison, I've always had trouble matching when entering names in manually, seems to only take the last word when you type more than one) and manually typing the MBID for each of them simply sucks

(2013-04-04, 04:03)slandells Wrote: A bit more info on the Bach issue (and some other bugbears)...

I ran an update today, which I haven't done for quote some time due to adding a new album to my collection. A few things things happened.

1. All artists with .feat <artistname> were given the MBID of the featuring artist (if it could be matched, otherwise the actual artist was used) and downloaded the artwork to match (previously, these couldn't be matched and were skipped). Not really a problem, just an observation. Also means a large amount of images were downloaded from fanart.tv to populate them all...
2. My "Weezer" albums (blue, green and red) were returned to having no MBID. I have had to match these manually in the past, which I did again, but was hoping they may have stuck. This is due to them being listed on Fanart.tv as simply "Weezer" as this is technically the correct Album name for them... I think this has always been the case, which is why I avoid "update database".
3. Every artist that had an ampersand (&) in it has been matched to Johann Sebastian Bach and downloaded a fanart.jpg and 'extrafanart' image and added it.

EDIT: It looks like it has actually matched Johann Sebastian Bach when it couldn't find any other matches. Looks to be a co-incidence that most of the artists it couldn't match had the & symbol. While cleaning up folders, I noticed there were a few others it had matched to Bach also. I'm not game to run any more downloads as it'll go through adding thumb and clearlogo for the same artists. At a guess, I'm going to have to blow away the entire database to get rid of the matches to Bach after it's been fixed...

Cheers,
Stuart.