[solved] When playing music Fanart does not appear immediately after downloading (2 Viewers)
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Ukraine
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- #262
Although the duplicate detection works really fine and is very useful, there are Fanarts which I want to hide e. g.
So I check each downloaded Fanart and delete unwanted Fanarts.
- similar pictures (cut out)
- mirrored pictures
- not nice
- bad quality
So I check each downloaded Fanart and delete unwanted Fanarts.
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- #266
If you put a note not to show Fanart, then it makes no sense to add them to the blacklist, they should not be reloaded, and so, because the source is registered with them.
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- #267
Yes, this approach works for sure.
But the access to a 90MB database on a remote media PC is very slow. And the files to be disabled need to be looked up in the file share first, searched in the DB and then be disabled. And, in the File Explorer there's no overview which Fanarts are disabled.
I was looking for a more convenient, user-friendly solution to delete and block unwanted Fanarts on a remote media PC.
But the access to a 90MB database on a remote media PC is very slow. And the files to be disabled need to be looked up in the file share first, searched in the DB and then be disabled. And, in the File Explorer there's no overview which Fanarts are disabled.
I was looking for a more convenient, user-friendly solution to delete and block unwanted Fanarts on a remote media PC.
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- #268
Slow? According to my testing, all requests are instant, except for creating static statistics by providers, they are just very fast.
In the configurator there is a preview of the pictures ... And in my opinion their performance characteristics.
When you delete a file, the blacklist associated with it is cleared. Deleting files means that this file is not needed, but this does not mean that it will not be needed the next time you play music for this artist.
It does not lend itself to automation, it is monotonous manual labor. If you reduce the number of necessary pictures, you can get the desired result in an automatic mode and minimize manual intervention. All the same, all sites do not contain as many pictures as you need. You can disable providers and leave only Fanart TV, then the quality of the pictures will be better.
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- #269
Don't get me wrong, FH works really fine! 
The recent changes have improved the user experience and operation very much.
Assumedly I'm your biggest fan.
The requirements depend on the use case and the user's preference (claim).
Apparently yours are different than mine.
In my use case FH runs on a media PC which is connected to my sound system and TV. Usually I only use the remote control to operate, and no keyboard and mouse. I remotely access the FH file share and database to maintain about 9,000 Fanarts.
The way to open the Fanart maintenance user interface is long winded and MediaPortal needs to be stopped every time.
Even at the time when the maximum number of Fanarts per artist was set to ten I had Fanarts which I wanted to disable (see reasons mentioned above). And I love to see many Fanarts, now that the maximum Fanart number has been increased to 100. Most of the downloaded files are nice, only some not. And for those I was looking for a simple, convenient way to delete and block them remotely.
If you think that my suggestion means no benefit for the FH users I will respect that and live with the circumstance.
The recent changes have improved the user experience and operation very much.
Assumedly I'm your biggest fan.
The requirements depend on the use case and the user's preference (claim).
Apparently yours are different than mine.
In my use case FH runs on a media PC which is connected to my sound system and TV. Usually I only use the remote control to operate, and no keyboard and mouse. I remotely access the FH file share and database to maintain about 9,000 Fanarts.
The way to open the Fanart maintenance user interface is long winded and MediaPortal needs to be stopped every time.
Even at the time when the maximum number of Fanarts per artist was set to ten I had Fanarts which I wanted to disable (see reasons mentioned above). And I love to see many Fanarts, now that the maximum Fanart number has been increased to 100. Most of the downloaded files are nice, only some not. And for those I was looking for a simple, convenient way to delete and block them remotely.
If you think that my suggestion means no benefit for the FH users I will respect that and live with the circumstance.
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- #270
I have the same way of using it, only the remote control, only the TV, and that’s it. All image files are on the server, the database is local. If suddenly I need to remove any picture, then I just put a sign in the database from another computer (at the moment when there is no database update). In 95% of cases, this works fine. I have not visited the configurator for a very long time, since about 2018. All fanarts are scanned when starting Media Portal, fanarts at the time of playing are scanned only for Radio, because for artists from the music database they already are.