gdallas Wrote:General question for everyone. New to XBMC and this script, although I have it working fine. I checked out xbmcstuff.com and signed up. However, I cannot figure out how to upload CD Art there. I'm scanning some of my CD's and would like to contribute back. The forums there seem to be overrun with automated spam.

I found one relevant post about logging in, going to the CDArt Artist page and I should be able to upload, but when I do so, I see nothing on the screen that indicates I can upload anything or create a new artist.

Does anyone have any insight? The script retrieved CD art for 150 of my 750 albums. I really want to contribute, but this is non-obvious.

Thanks for any assistance.

theironyuppie Wrote:i agree with this. i started using this app when the neon skin added support and signed up on xbmc stuff but cant figure out how to upload.
can it be done thru the program within xbmc? it would be good if you could get cdart manager to create a backup of you unique cdarts that it automatically renames and uploads to xbmcstuff.

Quote:this leads me onto my second problem i have been downloading cdarts from allcdcovers.com, creating them into .pngs and moving them into my music library.
the problem i have is once ive saved the cdart.png into the appropriate album folder they dont appear in the cdart manager library. ive tried to scan and update the library but it doesnt seem to work. how do i do this?

giftie Wrote:I agree that it is not too obvious - took me a while to upload.

step 4. To add a new artist, click on 'Click Here'

gdallas Wrote:Thanks for the detailed response. Something else is going on. I am logged in. I have an activated account, but when I go to an artist list (any letter) the box you show with the 'click here' link does not appear for me.

All I see is the top navigation bar (News/Home/TV Shows/CD Arts) with the Artist letter selection list below that, and then the list of artists for whatever I selected.

For some reason I guess it doesn't think I have the rights to upload so I get no opportunity to do so. Not sure how to fix that.

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Just figured it out. I needed to create a 'creator' account. Go to Profile. Click on 'Contributions' and it will give a dialog to create a 'creator' account. Once I did that, the dialogs appear on the CDArt Artist pages.

giftie Wrote:cdART Manager can create a back up of your unique cdarts, renamed following the pattern that is set in the settings. It actually also can upload as well, except there only via FTP. Imaginos(owner of xbmcstuff.com) does not want to open up to FTP(for security reasons) I was looking into starting up my own website for this but haven't yet.




Have you rescanned the Addon's database? Advanced -> Refresh Addon Database

theironyuppie Wrote:yeh ive tried to refresh addon database. then it gives me the option to delete local database, from this ive tried yes and no but my added arts still dont appear under the local cdart list. ive also tried cleaning the local databse but still no joy. its a bummer coz if i could get them to appear id be able to create a backup then i could upload them to xbmcstuff. be nice to be able to contribute
there must be some way to get it to recognise them without manually copying them to another directory and renaming them all?

giftie Wrote:What OS are you using?

You could always delete the l_cdart.db database file found in userdata/addon_data/script.cdartmanager. Then the script should search your library and hopefully find the new cdarts...

If it doesn't could you post your xbmc.log file to pastebin for me to see what is going on, also post a sample folder of one that is not retrieving the cdart.

Thanxs..

giftie Wrote:I'm really starting to dislike Windows 7 and it's permissions....

Working on a fix...

theironyuppie Wrote:using windows 7. just deleted the database file and rescanned library and it seems to have fixed it.
ill keep an eye on it to see if it updates properly next time i add cdart otherwise ill run a debug on it and post so we can get it fixed. cheers.