[RELEASE] reFocus 0.9.5

(2013-06-05 01:12)nessus Wrote:  Thanks robweber. Will test it and get back to you.
As for the Music fanart, i think will be very good option for the MusicVisualization screen.

Cheers
Nessus

Done. I've added music fanart to the addon and pushed the changes to the git repo. You can now set two paths in the settings, one for video and one for music. Do not make them the same, the image cleaning process will remove images of different types (ie, video grabber removes music and vice versa). The service portion of the addon will also pass along music and video database update events and start the correct grabber.

I did not create a setting to toggle the video/music grabbers on/off. This was done on purpose as the goal for this addon is to be hands off and easy for users and skinners. If people want something more complicated or with more settings they are welcome to use the artwork organizer addon mentioned previously. As it stands now all you should need to do is download this addon and let it run (pointing skins towards the right directories of course).

(2013-06-05 01:17)fogcity Wrote:  A thought for robweber: It would be nice to have the fanart captioned with the title of the movie / show it comes from, and triple nice to be able to select that caption and play the item in question.

What's the chance of any of that?

That sounds like more of a skinner responsibility as my addon is not creating any views. I'm simply taking the existing fanart images and putting them in a directory for slideshows. A skinner could overlay the information you are asking for and create the clickable actions. This is IF they can determine what image artwork is being shown - probably not an easy task given the CRC hash all the image names are converted to. I'll let a skinner comment on the plausibility of this.

Thanks a lot robweber.
The video part is working fine however the music is not working. I've manual updated the music library (without or with any new content) and the default folder is not generated. Also after you added the Music fanart an ok dialog appears with a "Creating Fanart Path" message and it appears only when you update video library regardless if the "Run Silent" addon settings is enabled or not. Let me know if you need a full debug log.

I have some more things that IMO will make this addon better but don't you think is time for a dedicated thread in the addons forum development so we can stop hijacking Jeroen's thread ?

Cheers
Nessus

robweber,

I wouldn't bring this up since you've done such a great job, but since your addon now supports music:

it would be nice to see fanart for TV shows when TV SHOWS is the current home menu item, and movie fanart when MOVIES is the current home menu item.

i expected it to work this way from the beginning but realized it would require splitting tv show and movie fanart to two separate directories.

but now, since you just did that for music.... seems like it would be possible... ?

I've created a separate thread for the fanart grabber. As Nessus stated we've gone way off track with this here. Sorry Jeroen - you can have your thread back!

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=166572

I love the slideshow that appears in the home menu, but would like to suspend it after some period of inactivity. My thought here is that doing so will allow all disks to spin down and take a rest for most of the day. Accessing these hundreds of tiny images would seemingly prevent that (unless I'm wrong?)

I tried to turn on the Dim screensaver with a setting of 100% brightness; I thought that when a screensaver is active that the slideshow would pause. No such luck.

Suggestions?