Fanart Handler (1 Viewer)

[edterbak]

Cul8er,
Thank you for the work on this AWSOME fanart plugin. It fills in some of the blanks that mediaportal leaves THANKS!!!

I just have a small question. I noticed (with beta5) fanart is only visible in "my playlist". Not in the shares view. Is it possible to also use the fanarts in the shares view (/list)?
Again, many thanks for all the work you are putting into this software. Much appreciated.!

 

[cul8er]

Hi edterbak,

Thanks for your feedback. In the music shares view it is not possible for me to support fanart because every user has their own folder structure where they store music and this is what this view displays. So it is not possible to find a common way to find the artist in this view. If you use any of the other views like artist, album, artistalbum and so on fanart is supported.

best regards
cul8er

 

[Dadeo]

Hi Cul8er-

I will not move focus to creating a new thread

I hope you meant now

Beta6 Test Results:
First, it is working very well for me. In fact, performance seems much improved. If you didn't intend that, take credit anyway

1. Skin FanArt Folders created - yes - and done by plugin which is even better than installer in case users remove thumbs folder or reinstall mp Thanks!!! It also makes it much easier for me to install the plugin with aMPed.
2. Skin FanArt Folders retained - yes - even on uninstall, fanart is not removed (just checking ) I think experienced users know to backup thumbs folder anyway!
3. New layout and options in plugin configuration - the only change I see is the new tab for Managing Fanart. Is that correct? Also, on the Scraper tab, both options say the same thing, I think the second one is supposed to say "Enable Automatic Download of Music Fanart for Playing Artist" or something like that?
4. Scraper - I set the options to download 3 fanart when Music is Playing (general scraping is off), but fanarthandler.log says I already have the max images even though there is only one in Skin FanArt Music folder. I tried increasing the number but still get the same result with or without artist images enabled. I checked HTBackdrops and there are several more fanart images for Beth Orton (the artist I was playing). So I removed all music fanart and tried again, same results! See log file attached.
5. I still cannot get fanart for playing artist to work properly in Music Playlists. It is very odd because the exact same code works perfectly in Music Shares, Now Playing, etc. In Music Playlists the image that displays varies, but it only ever displays one, then fades to background (not default backdrop) then back to the same image. However, selected fanart now works in Music Playlists and I prefer that, but just wanted to let you know.

Thanks again for all your hard work cul8er. The plugin is definitely getting even better and better!

edterbak - what you can do in Music Shares is display the fanart for currently playing artist.

 

[cul8er]

Hi Dadeo,

About number four. Did you delete the fanart files in the folder or pressed the delete all button in the last tab in the plugin? If you press the button and try again is the result the same?

best regards
cul8er

 

[cul8er]

Hi,

Beta 7 is now available and hopefully this solves number four in Dadeo's post above.

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 7

best regards
cul8er

 

[cul8er]

Hi Dadeo,

I still cannot get fanart for playing artist to work properly in Music Playlists.

The plugin now only supports the "#fanarthandler.music.backdrop1.selected" and "#fanarthandler.music.backdrop2.selected" properties in myMusicPlaylist. The playlist automatically moves focus to now played item upon song change. And if you move selection in playlist it will change backdrop to reflect current selected item and if played track changes then that song will get focus again. Hope this is a working solution. If not, please let me know. You can see how I use it in the x-factor skin if you look at the SVN version on the google code site.

As allways, a BIG thank you for your help and reports.

best regards
cul8er

 

[Migue]

Hi cul8er,

in Beta 7, if trying to configure the plugin without an existing fanarthandler.xml I get this exception.

System.FormatException: Input string was not in a correct format.
   at System.Number.StringToNumber(String str, NumberStyles options, NumberBuffer& number, NumberFormatInfo info, Boolean parseDecimal)
   at System.Number.ParseInt32(String s, NumberStyles style, NumberFormatInfo info)
   at System.Convert.ToInt32(String value)
   at FanartHandler.FanartHandlerConfig.FanartHandlerConfig_Load(Object sender, EventArgs e)

Clicking on continue allows normal operation.

 

[cul8er]

Hi,

Beta 0.8 is now available.

New in this version are;
* tooltip help on every option in the plugin configuration
* new about tab with short info about the plugin and version number
* bug reported by Migue (thank you) is fixed.

best regards
cul8er

 

[cul8er]

Hi,

I think that Beta 0.8 contains all the features needed for a version 1.0 of this plugin but I would like to know your opinion on this. So please let me know as soon as possible if there are any outstanding issues that need to be fixed or if any features are missing that you would like for version 1 or later.

best regards
cul8er

 

[emphatic]

To test beta 0.8, does the same backup procedure as for beta 7 apply?

Emph