Fanart Handler (1 Viewer)

[cul8er]

Hi Dadeo,

Thanks for your report. I will look at it in a day or so.

best regards
cul8er

 

[SixSox]

There is a small thing.
When playing a song with an artist, stop it manually, then starts a new number with the same artists,
there are no fanart image before the remaning transition is run out.
I do not know if I'm the only one with this problem.

Thanks for this lovely plugin

SixSox

 

[cul8er]

Hi,

Just to let you know that I'm still working on this and a new version will be released in a few days. Hopefully this version will be one that can soon be released as version 1 of this plugin and at that time I will also create a separate thread for it in the plugins section and open a separate google code site for issue handling and source code.

some news to expect in the new version;
* browse your scraped music fanart in the plugin (in MP config) and delete images if you like to.
* scraper now both do initial scrape and also scrapes new images from the htbackdrop site on MP startup
* ability to reset initial scrape to allow for a new complete scrape
* bug fixes...

cheers
cul8er

 

[joz]

As everyone else I also tried it on my very large collection (285 artists)
What I noticed so far that it seems to download some images twice. My guess is that there is just one image but I have set it to download 2 of them so it will download the one image the x amount of times defined?

This feature seems really promessing. I have my own personal collection of some music fanart which I'll up to htbackdrops pretty soon.
for all the hard work!

---EDIT---

Nope it's 2 resolutions, 1920x1080 and 1280x720. A setting for controlling that would be nice but I guess you already figured as much

Quoting myself here a bit, is this one of the bugfixes? Or am I doing something wrong?
again cul8er

 

[cul8er]

Hi joz,

Have I missunderstood something? I thought you found the issue at the bottom of your post where you write that it is the same image but in different resolution. This is not something I can fix. Or have I missunderstood your post, if so please let me know so that I can look at the problem.

Thank you in advance.

best regards
cul8er

 

[micha02]

AW: Fanart Handler

Hi cul8er

the downloadlink is broken.

Bye Micha

 

[joz]

Hi joz,

Have I missunderstood something? I thought you found the issue at the bottom of your post where you write that it is the same image but in different resolution. This is not something I can fix. Or have I missunderstood your post, if so please let me know so that I can look at the problem.

Thank you in advance.

best regards
cul8er

Hi Cul8er,

I was referring to the multiple image resolutions being downloaded.
Isn't there something in the filename that you could check for?
Otherwise I know it should be possible to download them and then check for the resolution, discard them if they do not meet the specified setting. Less ideal but maybe something you want to implement.
On second thought if I think about it that last suggestion might discard images that are only available as say 1920x1080 (while you had specified only 720p for example).
You could also go for automatically resizing images but then you might endup with same 2 images (one originally downloaded as 720p and one resized to 720p)
So the filename thing, if at all possible, would be the most ideal I think.

@micha02
here you go

 

[usualsuspect]

AW: Fanart Handler

the filenames at htbackdrops are not standardized, so I do not see any easy way to distinguish between two pictures which show the same image but have different resolution.
so i fear the only thing possible is to compare the images, which is not too easy.

 

[chefkoch]

AW: Fanart Handler

Could you please change the plugin to create the thumbs sub dirs if those are not create already?
So users could clear their thumbs dir without creating each dir again and skin installers which distribute the plugin doesn't need to create those dirs, especially if there will new dirs or some changed.

Directory.Create(string path) could be called everytime the dirs are accessed, since it does nothing if the dir already exists.

I would provide a patch, but did not find the source code anywhere.

thx
regards
chefkoch

 

[cul8er]

Hi,

Beta 6 is now available. Alot has changed and now I think we are close to version 1.o of this plugin. So the good thing is that we are close to a stable version. The bad thing is that I have changed alot in the code so expect some bugs AND your fanartdatabase and the images that the scraper has downloaded for you so far will probably cause problems with this new version.

So if you want to try this new version you should do this;
* copy your fanart in the /thumbs/skin fanart/music to a backup location
* delete all fanart in the /thumbs/skin fanart/music folder
* copy your /database/fanarthandler.db3 file to a backup location
* delete your /database/fanarthandler.db3 file
* install Beta 6

Some of the new in this version;
* a new skinning control with id 91919294 (see wiki). this control is visible if fanart is available for playing artist (we had the control 91919293 before that was visible if selected artist had fanart)
* alot of bug fixes
* creates skin fanart folders if missing
* new layout and options in plugin configuration
* initial scraper redone
* added scraper for new images on htbackdrops (initial scrape is done once and then only new images are scraped)
* and probably alot more that I have allready forgot

Please report any issues with this version and I will try to solve them as soon as possible.

I will now move focus to creating a new thread in the plugin section for this plugin. Create good documentation for end users and skinners. Describe the logic of the plugin. Setup a google code site for issue reporting and also upload the source to that site. More on this soon. In the meantime, please help me with testing and issue reports if you have some spare time and a MP installation that is NOT YOUR LIVINGROOM HTPC

best regards
cul8er