2014-08-06, 11:07
Hey all.
Getting fed up with how slow my win 7 xbmc PC was running, I decided to reinstall windows and the latest 13.1 from the homepage. My library was in a pretty messed up state, after a botched attempt using thumbnail cleaner to downsize my 26gb of thumbs. It left me with blank thumbs and all kinds of hiccups when rendering the new ones. A reinstall I thought, would do the trick.
I've never had 100% success with exporting then importing libraries when updating my xbmc. Often times, the same problem happened; gaps in artwork. I know now that this was due to the textures.Db file.
Adding 300+ movies and 60+ tvshows to the system again would be a pain but I thought for better or worse if get the result I want.
And happily enough, adding movies has been very quick (might be as I'm using the efficient confluent default skin) but even though I have folder.Jpg posters in ALL of my movie folders, xbmc has grabbed a poorer-quality one from a website. I had a look but I could not find the option to prefer the local folder.jpg. Now I have the lovely task of right clicking each movie and browsing for the folder.jpg
I recall an option at the movie info page which downloaded extrafanart images as well. iirc, it stores them in a sub folder if the folder is writable of course. mine were/are and so those backdrops ARE there but the skin (aeon Nox) is not cycling through them; it's just showing one. Is this a skin limitation or is something messed up?
As you mighty have guessed, im using nox5 now. It's said to be a lightweight skin however I'm seeing what I assume to be system performance issues. For example I'm browsing TV shows at the season episode level, and the thumbnails after not changing as I browse. Eg, I am browsing tvshow Africa and it is still displaying episode thumbnails from they last show I browsed ("24"). I'm hoping my library thumbnails aren't messed up already.
I did backup my old libraries anyway because I knew something like this would happen... If i want to use them (import). What's the BEST way of deleting the old libraries entirely including thumbnails etc beforehand? -it's never been clear to me what 'clean library' does in the xbmc settings. Why don't we have an option to delete library entirely and street from scratch? (An option selectable from within xbmc) to avoid all the problems of leftover thumbnails and texture files)
Regards.
Getting fed up with how slow my win 7 xbmc PC was running, I decided to reinstall windows and the latest 13.1 from the homepage. My library was in a pretty messed up state, after a botched attempt using thumbnail cleaner to downsize my 26gb of thumbs. It left me with blank thumbs and all kinds of hiccups when rendering the new ones. A reinstall I thought, would do the trick.
I've never had 100% success with exporting then importing libraries when updating my xbmc. Often times, the same problem happened; gaps in artwork. I know now that this was due to the textures.Db file.
Adding 300+ movies and 60+ tvshows to the system again would be a pain but I thought for better or worse if get the result I want.
And happily enough, adding movies has been very quick (might be as I'm using the efficient confluent default skin) but even though I have folder.Jpg posters in ALL of my movie folders, xbmc has grabbed a poorer-quality one from a website. I had a look but I could not find the option to prefer the local folder.jpg. Now I have the lovely task of right clicking each movie and browsing for the folder.jpg
I recall an option at the movie info page which downloaded extrafanart images as well. iirc, it stores them in a sub folder if the folder is writable of course. mine were/are and so those backdrops ARE there but the skin (aeon Nox) is not cycling through them; it's just showing one. Is this a skin limitation or is something messed up?
As you mighty have guessed, im using nox5 now. It's said to be a lightweight skin however I'm seeing what I assume to be system performance issues. For example I'm browsing TV shows at the season episode level, and the thumbnails after not changing as I browse. Eg, I am browsing tvshow Africa and it is still displaying episode thumbnails from they last show I browsed ("24"). I'm hoping my library thumbnails aren't messed up already.
I did backup my old libraries anyway because I knew something like this would happen... If i want to use them (import). What's the BEST way of deleting the old libraries entirely including thumbnails etc beforehand? -it's never been clear to me what 'clean library' does in the xbmc settings. Why don't we have an option to delete library entirely and street from scratch? (An option selectable from within xbmc) to avoid all the problems of leftover thumbnails and texture files)
Regards.