Why am I not getting Fanart working ? (1 Viewer)

[Rijnton]

Probably I am doing something completely wrong or overlooked one or more settings or even don't understand the whole thing, but I am not getting fanart working.
I followed the advice given by kiwijunglist in another thread started by me:
https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/...ould-i-need-download-i-am-bit-confused-77471/
and downloaded amd installed all files, except for 5) (I don't use music videos).
From the "Fanart Handler plugin skin files for music section of StreamedMP (v1.7)" I took the Fullscreen version
However, although I have a lot of images in C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\thumbs\Skin Fanart\music,
I don't see any fanart when browsing music, nor when playing music.
What am I doing wrong ?

 

[Zinu]

Were those images scraped by Fanart Handler?

 

[Rijnton]

Were those images scraped by Fanart Handler?

Yes, I assume so, because I didn't download them myself.
Btw, I noticed meanwhile that when I start playing an album (with an image for the artist in the Skin Fanart\music folder) from the list in Music and then switch to Now Playing I see the fanart image for a split-second. But thereafter I see the default backdrop again.

 

[himochi]

weird, fanarthandler integrated like a charm on my install, i do have a different problem. maybe someone cant point me out as i dont want to create a new thread for it,

when i go to mymusicvideos plugin, the fanart will not download directly; It will ONLY show if i listen to an mp3 of that artist first. for ex. i have a video from evanescence and it will show nothing, however if i get some mp3 from the band and listen to them the fanart downloads, and then when i go to the video screen it will show... weird

if you have a fix for that let me know

 

[kiwijunglist]

weird, fanarthandler integrated like a charm on my install, i do have a different problem. maybe someone cant point me out as i dont want to create a new thread for it,

when i go to mymusicvideos plugin, the fanart will not download directly; It will ONLY show if i listen to an mp3 of that artist first. for ex. i have a video from evanescence and it will show nothing, however if i get some mp3 from the band and listen to them the fanart downloads, and then when i go to the video screen it will show... weird

if you have a fix for that let me know

Hi there is no fix for that at this stage. It is because fanart plugin doesn't check the music videos database for artists to download fanart for. I've been meaning to ask cul8er to add this.

Rijnton - It's hard to know maybe 1.7 is missing some files again because my skin directory has had 1.1 -> 1.7 installed, and I know that trevor missed out some files in the last release and some of us didn't notice because we were installing over previous releases.

 

[Rijnton]

Maybe it was because I had Fanart Handler 1.0 instead of 1.3RC1 ? Anyway I tried it again with 1.3RC1 and now it is working but only in Now Playing and not while browsing.
A few more questins though:
1) What is the meaning of "Total Artists Initialised in Fanart Handler Database" ( and Total Artists Uninitialised...) under Manage Fanart in Fanart Handler ? I ask because I see a total of 330 Artists now of which 220 are uninitialised. Should I do something more to have them initialised ? Or has it do with whether the artists have been played or not ?

2) When installing StreamedMP does it matter if I choose "Default" or "Fanart Orientated" ?

And 2 issues:
1) When starting Moving Pictures I get an error message saying "Skin does not support categories"

2) When going to Lyrics, MP crashes. It closes but stays in Windows processes.
Do I miss some files ? In PureVision MyLyrics works correctly.

 

[kiwijunglist]

1) What is the meaning of "Total Artists Initialised in Fanart Handler Database" ( and Total Artists Uninitialised...) under Manage Fanart in Fanart Handler ? I ask because I see a total of 330 Artists now of which 220 are uninitialised. Should I do something more to have them initialised ? Or has it do with whether the artists have been played or not ?

Fanart found for 110 artists, not found fanart for 330 artists

2) When installing StreamedMP does it matter if I choose "Default" or "Fanart Orientated" ?

Doesn't make any difference as you are wiping the files with the fanart skin files later on

When starting Moving Pictures I get an error message saying "Skin does not support categories"

You need to use streamedmp skin file for MP1.0 Beta

You already asked similar question and I answered it here
-> https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/575412-post5.html

Just install the files in the order of that post, however install V1.8 instead of V1.3 and install 1.3RC2 instead of 1.3RC1

 

[Rijnton]

Thanks kiwijunglist.
1) and 2) now clear to me.
I thought I had the skin files for Moving Pictures 1.0beta as well, but I will try it again.
But what about the crashing when I go to Lyrics ?
Btw, should release v1.8 be complete and if not is there a way to get the previous releases to get the missing files as yet ?

 

[kiwijunglist]

1.8 should be complete it should be backwards compatible with older version of fanart plugin too.

 

[ltfearme]

But what about the crashing when I go to Lyrics ?

Install the latest MyLyrics which I believe fixes this.