artwork for videos and music

[dmakfan]

Hello,

I've noticed some strange things happening with artwork for both videos and music.

For videos: I have my television shows organized like this:
.\TV\Lost\Season 3
.\TV\Lost\Season 4
...

Using XBMC, I had set the artwork for "Lost". Season 3 happens to have it's own artwork in there.. I think it's a jpg stored locally in that directory if I remember correctly. If I go under Season 4, and try and change the artwork there in XBMC (I think it's under the "Get Information" context menu or something like that), the "Lost" artwork changes, and the Season 4 artwork ended up as the same artwork as Season 3. Weird.

For Music: When I use the context menu and tell it to update all of my music library to get all the album artwork etc., only the first song in the album gets coverart etc. To get it to get the coverart for each song in the album, I have to select that album's info in the context menu, and "refresh" it. My music is organized as:
.\<artist>\<albumname>\...

Thanks,
Dave

[jmarshall]

For TV shows, there's 3 types of artwork: Show artwork (a folder.jpg in the show directory), Season artwork (season##.jpg/png in the show directory) and episode artwork (<filename>.tbn). There is no season information page, so I suspect when you grabbed tv information it simply set the show thumb to the season level or something similar?

Make sure you set content on the Tv Shows folder, not a sublevel to that.

As for music, you'll need to be more specific as to exactly what you did. Thumbs are assigned to the album (i.e. matching album and artist) so all songs in an album should get a thumb if it's downloaded. Are you actually in library view?

Cheers
Jonathan

[dmakfan]

I think I figured out what was wrong with my TV shows.

To add all the artwork and all that, I would have brought up the context menu, and under the get information, I think I just selected GetThumb. However, yesterday, I tried "Refresh" instead, got prompted for the correct TV show name (because it would have default to Season 4, for example), and it updated its database. Now, when I chose GetThumb, it stores the right artwork in the right place.

What's weird though is that when I pull up the information for the TV episode, I don't see the artwork in there. I do see the reflection of it though :) Sounds like a bug. But at least when I'm navigating through my TV shows now, the right artwork is coming up.

I'll see if I can figure out what's up with my music library next....

[jmarshall]

I suspect you may be doing things incorrectly for the tv show stuff.

You set content to TV Shows on the folder that contains all your tvshows. Note the s there. With a filesystem such as this:

path_stuff_that_we_don't_care_about/tvshows/Star Trek/Season 1/foo.s01e02.avi

you'd set content on the tvshows folder.

You then just scan your files in to the database (run automatic scan) and make sure "this folder contains a single tv show" is off (as clearly you're scanning ALL your TV shows).

XBMC runs through, using the subfolders of the tvshows folder to grab the show names, recurses into each of them to enumerate all the episodes, downloads the info, and sets thumbs.

That's it.

Cheers,
Jonathan