htbackdrops down... forever? (3 Viewers)

[cul8er]

Hi,

Have also messaged him on all three email addresses I have.

Cheers
Cul8er[DOUBLEPOST=1371493960][/DOUBLEPOST]This has happened before... Was working again after a few weeks .. Fingers crossed

 

[dint10]

Has anyone come across http://fanart.tv/ before?

 

[kiwijunglist]

Yes, lots of MP plugins already use fanart.tv, it is probably the next best site for music fanart if htbackdrops.com never comes back online.

DVDArt Plugin
MePoTools
tvThumbnailer plugin for tv-server

 

[wouter1971]

It's a pitty this fanart handler has a SPOF (Single Point Of Failure). Would be nice if the plugin uses multiple sites, like how the subtitle downloader plugin works.

 

[kiwijunglist]

Disagree because multiple sites = multiple copies of same fanart, would need a photo comparison module. The way fanart handler works is to maintain a local db, so you should still have 3 backdrops for every music file that is older than 4 weeks.

 

[wouter1971]

Disagree because multiple sites = multiple copies of same fanart, would need a photo comparison module. The way fanart handler works is to maintain a local db, so you should still have 3 backdrops for every music file that is older than 4 weeks.

You could built a mechanism that would drop all the images of one artist if there are less than three and fanart site library is down and then loads the three new ones from other fanart library site.

 

[TLD]

I was wondering why i didn't get any Music backdrops after a fresh OS and MP install on a new HD. I guess i picked the wrong time to do it. Hope the site comes back or an alternative site is used soon.

 

[Henkie Flits]

Ahhh, nooooo! I just cleaned-up my MePo install for 1.4 in which I also deleted my fanart images. Now they are gone, I couldn't get them back using recurva.
I really miss this feature already, I really hope we can work out an alternative for MePo, that would be awesome.

 

[Requiem]

I am very happy that I was able to restore my deleted fanart, also wanted to do a full re-scrape... any responses from the site owners to the mails mentioned here some days ago?

 

[Pog]

Help Us @cul8er your our only hope! ​

Loads of new music need fanart badly...​

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My vote is to move to fanart.tv, nice looking site too.​