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Artwork missing and not reloading after switching to MySQL database - Phane - 2019-04-12

I have multiple Kodi devices with a number of different OS's that are all having this issue.  I had everything working on a Kodi 18.1 install on a fire stick and then exported the library, set it up to use a MySQL database on the same NAS that's hosting the movies, and then imported the old library.  Everything seems to work except for one issue, artwork.  Even on the original Kodi install, artwork for several movies is missing (sometimes poster, sometimes fanart, most often both).  Setting up other Kodi installs to use the MySQL database results in a lot more movies missing artwork than the original.  There seems to be a pattern to which movies are missing artwork since some movies are missing artwork on all nodes, but some nodes have artwork that others don't.  It seems like the nodes I set up later are missing a lot more movie artwork than the first ones I set up.  The ones I set up last and are missing artwork on almost all of the movies.

If I go and manually change the artwork within the movie's info on one Kodi installation, the artwork loads fine on ALL Kodi installs immediately afterward.  That's a hell of a lot of effort to go to in order to refresh the missing artwork, though.  I see references to the "Artwork Downloader" add-on, but it's listed as broken now and I can't find an alternative.  I'm not sure about deleting the cache since a lot of these are FRESH INSTALLS and shouldn't have corrupt caches to begin with, so I don't see how that'd solve anything.

Any other solutions?

RE: Artwork missing and not reloading after switching to MySQL database - Karellen - 2019-04-12

(2019-04-12, 01:10)Phane Wrote: I see references to the "Artwork Downloader" add-on, but it's listed as broken now and I can't find an alternative
Artwork Beef... https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=258886

(2019-04-12, 01:10)Phane Wrote: Everything seems to work except for one issue, artwork.  Even on the original Kodi install, artwork for several movies is missing
How do you scrape your movies? Are you using the Kodi scrapers or are you using a Media Manager to create NFO Files?

Do you have local artwork?

RE: Artwork missing and not reloading after switching to MySQL database - Phane - 2019-04-12

(2019-04-12, 01:18)Karellen Wrote:  
(2019-04-12, 01:10)Phane Wrote: Everything seems to work except for one issue, artwork.  Even on the original Kodi install, artwork for several movies is missing
How do you scrape your movies? Are you using the Kodi scrapers or are you using a Media Manager to create NFO Files?

Do you have local artwork? 
Just using the Kodi scrapers.  I didn't do anything fancy to my library beyond editing some titles, sort titles, and picking alternative posters for the DC versions of movies.  All of that was done within the Kodi interface without installing any add-ons.

RE: Artwork missing and not reloading after switching to MySQL database - Karellen - 2019-04-12

Ok.

Try artwork beef. It will run through and add missing art. Hopefully it will solve all problems.

RE: Artwork missing and not reloading after switching to MySQL database - Phane - 2019-04-12

(2019-04-12, 01:25)Karellen Wrote: Ok.

Try artwork beef. It will run through and add missing art. Hopefully it will solve all problems.
Artwork Beef worked great.  I only had to run it on one node and the fixes populated through the MySQL database to all of the other nodes, so I only had to run it once.  It did end up replacing a lot of existing artwork with alternative artwork, which was a bit unexpected, but I can replace whatever I don't like, that's fine.

Thanks a lot for your help!

Artwork missing and not reloading after switching to MySQL database - Karellen - 2019-04-12

Thread marked solved.