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Using the latest stable branch I've noticed that every so often my artwork, both posters and fanart becomes heavily pixelated. If I look in the folders where the artwork is stored (alongside the video files) the artwork stored there is pixelated so Kodi is actually overwriting my artwork. It's getting to be rather tedious going through my entire library every few months or so to re-add the artwork. Is there any reason this is happening and how can I avoid it in the future?
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The only reason that Kodi would be overwriting your Artwork is that you have run the Export option and said yes to Export Artwork, then said yes to Overwrite Existing.
Have you done that?
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2018-08-04, 22:53
(This post was last modified: 2018-08-04, 23:13 by dkplayaclub.)
No. I have on occasion added new movies or shows but I don't specifically overwrite the existing artwork. The only time I export the library and artwork is after I have fixed them all manually in Kodi. This is why I am confused as to why it's happening. I've had to go through my entire library 5 or 6 times now and am getting rather peeved.
EDIT - For the sake of argument, let's say after I fix the artwork manually in Kodi that some of the artwork is messed up during the overwrite and I just don't notice it for a while, though this is unlikely because when I do notice it it's typically almost every single piece of artowrk. Why would this happen in any event?
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2018-08-04, 23:34
(This post was last modified: 2018-08-04, 23:58 by dkplayaclub.)
I'm not contradictimg myself as you are insinuating. Maybe I was not clear. I only export the library AFTER I have finished correcting the pixelation errors by manually restoring all of my artowrk. I have NEVER run the export in between then and when the artwork again becomes pixelated, so I am not overwriting my local artowrk with lower res images from the cache as you suggest. This issue has only been happening since I updated to 17.6. Before that, I have never had an issue like this in all the years I've been using Kodi, going all the way back to the old XBMC on XBox days.
Also, it's not like the art is being replaced with lower resolution images. It's more like they have been run through a scrambling filter. The pixelation is EXTREMELY bad, to the point where I can't even read the text on posters in some cases.
