(2015-07-08, 05:06)Dave the Minion Wrote: Does your script have the ability to scan my folders and apply the extra art based on the way Kodi names the files either when I initially scrape the new movies or when I click a button within Kodi?

(2015-07-08, 05:06)Dave the Minion Wrote: If not, then I am sorry but your script isn't the solution I am looking for. Apologies if that hurts your feelings for some odd reason.

(2015-07-08, 07:17)Milhouse Wrote:

(2015-07-08, 05:06)Dave the Minion Wrote: Does your script have the ability to scan my folders and apply the extra art based on the way Kodi names the files either when I initially scrape the new movies or when I click a button within Kodi?

It can scan folders, it can load new movies, it can correct the artwork issues that AD causes due to not supporting movie-name prefix, it can load artwork (standard and non-standard) using the names Kodi uses (or also the"simple" variety), it can find problematic metadata and refresh it, it can basically do all that you require, but there's no need for you (or family/friends) to click buttons, or even think about how Kodi works, instead you just automate your requirements. I mean, if you really want to click a button, you could kick it all off that way...

All I've been trying to impress on you is a better, more efficient way of solving your problem than the overly manual approach you seem intent on following because you only see things in terms of duplicate artwork files and having you and your family click buttons.

(2015-07-08, 05:06)Dave the Minion Wrote: If not, then I am sorry but your script isn't the solution I am looking for. Apologies if that hurts your feelings for some odd reason.

Lol, I can assure you my feelings are not hurt, I'm just gobsmacked at the crazy amount of effort you seem willing to put into keeping your sub-optimal, inefficient and excessively manual solution operational, yet you balk at one or two lines of "code".

Do you know how much effort my family put into maintaining their Kodi systems? None whatsoever. Zero. Zip. They've never done a library scan, or been bothered by problems with artwork or missing metadata, and it's not because I'm doing it all for them myself, it's because their systems are fully AUTOMATED - new content arrives, any time of the day or night, and Kodi is updated within minutes and without any user intervention.

Bah, I'm done. As they say, you can lead a horse to water...

(2015-07-08, 02:22)Dave the Minion Wrote: What would be great is if Artwork Downloader could use the same filename-artwork.png names like Kodi does.

(2015-07-08, 07:35)Milhouse Wrote: ...

(2015-07-08, 23:09)marhutchy Wrote: All my artworks are stored locally. Naming scheme is artwork.filetype; no movie-name prefix.
How can I get this automation?

(2015-07-08, 20:26)Dave the Minion Wrote: If you want Kodi to recognize the extra artwork automatically, what difference does it's file name make?

(2015-07-08, 23:34)Milhouse Wrote:

(2015-07-08, 23:09)marhutchy Wrote: All my artworks are stored locally. Naming scheme is artwork.filetype; no movie-name prefix.
How can I get this automation?

It requires you to think about your workflow and decide how and when to run the scripts.

In my case, I've got a scheduled job that pulls down new content, and once the content is finished downloading the scripts are run to update Kodi (scan new movies/tvshows, correct previously missing metadata (eg. plots, and particularly episode thumbs), run Artwork Downloader (I only use it for movie clearlogo/clearart), convert new remote artwork to local artwork, and finally cache all new artwork on all clients). Suspended Kodi clients can even be woken and put back to sleep once the update is finished.

Or you can run the scripts on a schedule (hourly, daily, weekely etc.).

Everyone's workflow is likely to be slightly different, so it's very much a bespoke solution in that sense - a matter of running the texturecache.py/mklocal.py steps as you see fit to get the job done.

I totally accept it's not the solution for everyone though, as developing this level of automation does require a degree of computer savvy that not everyone possesses. But if you can accomplish it, you can forget about spending time managing your library, and training family/friends to do things they're not really interested in doing, and concentrating on watching movies instead...

(2015-07-09, 01:27)marhutchy Wrote: Am I correct in thinking that you create the script in a .dat file and then create a task schedule for it?

(2015-07-09, 01:44)Milhouse Wrote:

(2015-07-09, 01:27)marhutchy Wrote: Am I correct in thinking that you create the script in a .dat file and then create a task schedule for it?

Not really sure about how you schedule stuff on Windows, but I think you would write a regular CMD then use the Windows equivalent of cron (is it "at"?) to run the script at particular times. It probably needs it's own thread to be honest, as it's rather OT for this thread...