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Important About Version 2.2.2 (and later)
The plugin has undergone alot of changes to make it MP 1.2 compatible. MP 1.2 contains for example a new great feature for the myVideo plugin. The new feature allows MP to scrape movie fanart for movies handled by the myVideos plugin. This and a few other things has forced me to change the folder structure for the FanartHandler fanarts. More on this in the Fanart Handler Wikis. This requires skin changes. Skinners has been notified but you should not upgrade to version 2.2.2 if you are not sure that the skin you are using supports this version. If installing and your skin is not yet prepared for 2.2.2 no fanart will be displayed. Since the folder structure is updated it also means that you cannot revert back to your old 2.2.1 version. Please take a backup of your Thumbs/Skin Fanart and the Database/FanartHandler.db3 files before upgrading.Please note that this installer is NOT MP1.2 compatible (this version is MP1.1.2 compatible). A MP1.2 Alpha compatible version of Fanart Handler can be found in the bottom of this page.
Introduction
Fanart Handler is a plugin for MediaPortal (MP). The plugin basically supports;
Scope
The scope of this plugin is to;
Guides
Requirements
Supported Skins
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
Fanart Handler For MP1.2 SVN Version
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
The plugin has undergone alot of changes to make it MP 1.2 compatible. MP 1.2 contains for example a new great feature for the myVideo plugin. The new feature allows MP to scrape movie fanart for movies handled by the myVideos plugin. This and a few other things has forced me to change the folder structure for the FanartHandler fanarts. More on this in the Fanart Handler Wikis. This requires skin changes. Skinners has been notified but you should not upgrade to version 2.2.2 if you are not sure that the skin you are using supports this version. If installing and your skin is not yet prepared for 2.2.2 no fanart will be displayed. Since the folder structure is updated it also means that you cannot revert back to your old 2.2.1 version. Please take a backup of your Thumbs/Skin Fanart and the Database/FanartHandler.db3 files before upgrading.Please note that this installer is NOT MP1.2 compatible (this version is MP1.1.2 compatible). A MP1.2 Alpha compatible version of Fanart Handler can be found in the bottom of this page.
Introduction
Fanart Handler is a plugin for MediaPortal (MP). The plugin basically supports;
- Search and download music artist fanart or artist thumbnails (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
- Push latest added media to your skin.
[*]latest added pictures
[*]latest added movies (moving pictures)
[*]latest added series (tvseries)
[*]latest added music
[*]latest added tv recordings
Scope
The scope of this plugin is to;
- scrape htbackdrops site for music fanart for all artists stored in your MP music database.
- scrape htbackdrops site for music fanart for currently played artist.
- push music fanart for now played music track (artist images)
- push music fanart for browsed music artist in myMusic plugin
- push music fanart for browsed/played music artist in myMusicPlaylist plugin
- push music fanart for browsed music artist in GlobalSearch? plugin
- push music fanart for browsed music artist in Music Videos plugin
- push music fanart for browsed music artist in mVidsplugin
- push music fanart for browsed music artist in YouTube?.FM plugin
- push movie fanart for browsed video title in myVideo plugin
- push scorecenter fanart for browsed category in myScoreCenter plugin
- 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 1.1.0, 1.1.1 or 1.1.2
- The Fanart Handler Plugin
- A skin that supports the Fanart Handler 2.2.2.
- If you want to use the Latest Media Features for Moving Picture version 1.0.7 is required.
- If you want to use the Latest Media Features for TVSeries version 2.6.3 is required.
Supported Skins
- aMPed (link)
- Black Glass (link)
- Black Glass Nova (link)
- BleazleWide (link)
- CLR (link)
- Essence 1080p (link)
- PureVisionHD (link)
- StreamedMP (link)
- X-Factor (link)
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
Fanart Handler For MP1.2 SVN Version
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