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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dadeo" data-source="post: 1012701" data-attributes="member: 27204">While I totally agree with Lehmden's original post/point about accessing local fanart, I think it is equally important to establish a standard for all plugins to use.One of the things that drives me crazy in MP1 is every plugin downloading the same fanart images over and over <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />think about OnlineVideos Trailers, Showtimes, Trakt, MovPics vs Videos vs MyFilms (god help you if you want to switch - it ends up easier to redownload 6GB than to restructure the fanart folders and names!), TVSeries, mvCentral aso. The same applies to all images/artwork like covers/posters, artist images, album covers, even channel logos (especially for radio which every plugin downloads over and over again). Basically all images should be stored consistently and in a way that every plugin can use, which I would assume makes it easier for plugin devs to add support.  And then easier to also add the artwork for media aspects to TV <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> which looks like a below the poverty line country cousin in MP1 without movie covers, TV Series posters/covers fanart, etc. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick Out Tongue    :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" /> I just wanted to mention it so you can keep that in mind morpheus_xx while extending/changing fanart retrieval to use more detailed parameters then the plain "Name" only and implementing fanart in NFO. This could also help users convert all their MP1 fanart/images - as chefkoch states, it is beyond the scope of MP2 to provide that as part of the core. However there are many good file renamer packages around that I could use to copy/move all my images to MP2 IF I new the standards for filepaths/names. So if we come up with something, and test it, we can simply add a tutorial to Wiki (not everything has to be done in code <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />)</blockquote>

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