Fanart Handler Plugin v2.1.1 (and music fanart scraper) (1 Viewer)

[cul8er]

Introduction
Fanart Handler is a plugin for MediaPortal (MP). The plugin has two main purposes;

• Search and download music fanart (scrape) from the htbackdrops site (link).
  
  
  [*]for all artists stored in your MP music database.
  [*]for any artist currently being played (on the fly).
  ​
• Push fanart that you store on your local harddrive to the current used MP skin.
  
  
  [*]push fanart for now played music
  [*]push fanart for selected music or movie
  [*]push random images from selected folders
  ​

Scope
The scope of this plugin is to;

1. scrape htbackdrops site for music fanart for all artists stored in your MP music database.
2. scrape htbackdrops site for music fanart for currently played artist.
3. push music fanart for now played music track (artist images)
4. push music fanart for browsed music artist in myMusic plugin
5. push music fanart for browsed/played music artist in myMusicPlaylist plugin
6. push music fanart for browsed music artist in GlobalSearch? plugin
7. push music fanart for browsed music artist in Music Videos plugin
8. push music fanart for browsed music artist in mVidsplugin
9. push music fanart for browsed music artist in YouTube?.FM plugin
10. push movie fanart for browsed video title in myVideo plugin
11. push scorecenter fanart for browsed category in myScoreCenter plugin
12. push cycling fanart from the following folders for use anywhere in a skin for
    
    
    [*]thumbs\MovingPictures?\Backdrops\FullSize?
    [*]thumbs\Fan Art\fanart\original
    [*]thumbs\Skin Fanart\games
    [*]thumbs\Skin Fanart\movies
    [*]thumbs\Skin Fanart\music
    [*]thumbs\Skin Fanart\pictures
    [*]thumbs\Skin Fanart\plugins
    [*]thumbs\Skin Fanart\tv
    ​

Guides

• Installation Guide
• User Guide
• Skinners Guide
• kiwijunglist's guide on setting up music in MediaPortal.

Requirements

• MediaPortal 1.1
• The Fanart Handler Plugin
• A skin that supports the Fanart Handler.

NOTE! This plugin only supports JPG images.


Supported Skins

• aMPed (link)
• Black Glass (link)
• Black Glass Nova (link)
• BleazleWide (link)
• PureVisionHD (link)
• StreamedMP (link)
• X-Factor (link)

Please let me know if your skin supports the Fanart Handler and I will add it to the list


Installation
Please read the installation guide (link).

Download
Use the new installer included in MP and the extension is available online in that tool (no need to download anything manual) or download it from the MP homepage under plugins.

Report Issues
Please use this issue list to report any issues related to this plugin (link).


Project Page

• Project Page

Thank you to everyone that has helped me testing the Beta versions and the Release Candidates. Without your help this plugin would never had reached version 1. Also a big thank you to the team behind Moving Picture for one of the greatest plugins for MediaPortal ever from wich I have reused a couple of util methods (yes, I got approval from fforde). And to team MP for the best Media Center ever

Best Regards
cul8er

 

[ysmp]

Re: Fanart Handler (and music fanart scraper)

HI Cu8ler !

Thank You for this Great plugin ...IT IS A MUST PLUGIN FOR MP....


so have some days off to relax after all this hard work you did ....


AND FOR ALL ,TO GET THE BEST OF THIS PLUGIN ,WE NEED ALL OF US TO UPLOAD OUR CASTOM ARTIST FANART TO:

HTBACKDROPS SITE : Home Theatre Backdrops  / Home

SO WE ALL CAN GET THE BEST OF THIS PLUGIN...

 

[emphatic]

Re: Fanart Handler Plugin v1.0 (and music fanart scraper)

I'm very glad about this, as cul8er now can work on XFactor again. Or enjoy some rest.

Emph

 

[rekenaar]

Re: Fanart Handler Plugin v1.0 (and music fanart scraper)

Great work, just the way we know him by now.
Thanks a lot cul8er

 

[2BitSculptor]

Re: Fanart Handler Plugin v1.0 (and music fanart scraper)

Absolutely wonderfull!!!

I would recommend it as an integral part of Media Portal!

A must have!

I would love to see it expanded to replace/become the fanart handler/scraper/manager in Moving Pictures [using: moviename (imdbID + #)] to display multiple backdrops.




Chuck

 

[Spragleknas]

Re: Fanart Handler Plugin v1.0 (and music fanart scraper)

Great work, cul8er! (Haven't tried the stand alone version yet, though)

Absolutely wonderfull!!!

Agreed.

I would recommend it as an integral part of Media Portal!

Feature freeze = not gonna happen I think that it is even better if it is NOT a part of MP, as it allows for more frequent updates to the plug-in.

 

[thattexaskid19]

Re: Fanart Handler Plugin v1.0 (and music fanart scraper)

okay, ive got it all working but the

#fanarthandler.music.backdrop1.selected

tag is not working for me. simply does nothing to change background. is this tag not allowed in mymusicsongs.xml? i replaced it with the same code except the .play version for the now playing artist and it worked fine.... what am i missing?

also, when there is no fan art, the default images from my multiimage folder dont show up right. i see them for a second and then they fade to black, about 30 seconds later (as i saw in the xml) my images come back... strange. if anybody can help with that please let me know too. ill go ahead and post the intro to my mymusicsongs.xml here at the bottom.


thanks, and im a long time lurker to the forums and this was definitely something that MP was lacking. major props

Spoiler

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?>
<window>
<id>501</id>
<defaultcontrol>2</defaultcontrol>
<allowoverlay>no</allowoverlay>
<define>#header.label:134</define>
<define>#header.image:-</define>
<define>#header.hover:hover_my music.png</define>
<controls>


<control>
<description>DUMMY CONTROLL FOR SELECTED FANART 1 VISIBILITY CONDITION</description>
<type>label</type>
<id>91919291</id>
<posX>0</posX>
<posY>0</posY>
<width>1</width>
</control>

<control>
<description>DUMMY CONTROLL FOR SELECTED FANART 2 VISIBILITY CONDITION</description>
<type>label</type>
<id>91919292</id>
<posX>0</posX>
<posY>0</posY>
<width>1</width>
</control>

<control>
<description>DUMMY CONTROLL FOR PLAYING FANART 1 VISIBILITY CONDITION</description>
<type>label</type>
<id>91919295</id>
<posX>0</posX>
<posY>0</posY>
<width>1</width>
</control>

<control>
<description>DUMMY CONTROLL FOR PLAYING FANART 2 VISIBILITY CONDITION</description>
<type>label</type>
<id>91919296</id>
<posX>0</posX>
<posY>0</posY>
<width>1</width>
</control>


<control>
<description>DUMMY CONTROLL FOR PLAYING FANART 1 VISIBILITY CONDITION</description>
<type>label</type>
<id>91919295</id>
<posX>0</posX>
<posY>0</posY>
<width>1</width>
</control>

<control>
<description>DUMMY CONTROLL FOR PLAYING FANART 2 VISIBILITY CONDITION</description>
<type>label</type>
<id>91919296</id>
<posX>0</posX>
<posY>0</posY>
<width>1</width>
</control>

<control>
<description>DUMMY CONTROLL FOR PLAYING FANART AVAILABILITY CONDITION</description>
<type>label</type>
<id>91919294</id>
<posX>0</posX>
<posY>0</posY>
<width>1</width>
</control>

<control>
<description>DEFAULT BACKGROUND WHEN FANART NOT AVAILABLE</description>
<id>0</id>
<type>multiimage</type>
<posX>0</posX>
<posY>0</posY>
<width>1280</width>
<height>720</height>>
<imagepath>music</imagepath>
<timeperimage>30000</timeperimage>
<fadetime>800</fadetime>
<loop>yes</loop>
<randomize>True</randomize>
<visible>!control.isvisible(91919294)</visible>
<animation effect="fade" start="10" end="100" time="1000" delay="80" reversible="false">Visible</animation>
<animation effect="fade" start="100" end="0" time="900" reversible="false">Hidden</animation>
</control>

<control>
<description>FANART IMAGE 1</description>
<id>897688</id>
<type>image</type>
<posX>0</posX>
<posY>0</posY>
<width>1280</width>
<height>720</height>
<texture>#fanarthandler.music.backdrop1.selected</texture>
<visible>control.isvisible(91919295)</visible>
<animation effect="fade" start="10" end="100" time="1000" delay="80" reversible="false">Visible</animation>
<animation effect="fade" start="100" end="0" time="900" reversible="false">Hidden</animation>
</control>

<control>
<description>FANART IMAGE 2</description>
<id>897689</id>
<type>image</type>
<posX></posX>
<posY>0</posY>
<width>1280</width>
<height>720</height>
<texture>#fanarthandler.music.backdrop2.selected</texture>
<visible>control.isvisible(91919296)</visible>
<animation effect="fade" start="10" end="100" time="1000" delay="80" reversible="false">Visible</animation>
<animation effect="fade" start="100" end="0" time="900" reversible="false">Hidden</animation>
</control>
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[Pretoriano]

Re: Fanart Handler Plugin v1.0 (and music fanart scraper)

Hi Markus,

thx again for this plugin....great job.Btw please use the MediaPortal repository for your plugin so you can have your own subforum ---> https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/mediaportal-plugins-47/how-get-into-popular-plugins-section-69306/#post499101

 

[2BitSculptor]

Re: Fanart Handler Plugin v1.0 (and music fanart scraper)

tag is not working for me. simply does nothing to change background. is this tag not allowed in mymusicsongs.xml? i replaced it with the same code except the .play version for the now playing artist and it worked fine.... what am i missing?

It's my understanding that MyMusicSongs (shares) doesn't pull the artist name from the music db, so it wouldn't be exposed to the fanart handler plugin, ... selected titles would have no effect.

Chuck

 

[thattexaskid19]

Re: Fanart Handler Plugin v1.0 (and music fanart scraper)

It's my understanding that MyMusicSongs (shares) doesn't pull the artist name from the music db, so it wouldn't be exposed to the fanart handler plugin, so selected titles would have no effect.

Chuck

got it. did not notice i was still in shares mode. thanks. A+ work guys