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Old 03-30-2009, 09:59 AM
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FanArt Folder Location For Series.

Hi,

I've looked and looked, but can't find a definitive answer to this.

I have a load of TV series converted to Xvid/mkv and stored on my NAS. This obviously puts them under Videos/Movies as far as SageTV is concerned (i.e. they are no longer under Recorded TV).

The fan art was working fine until I upgraded to the new version of SageMC today. I've sorted all the standard movies and recorded TV by added the relevant folders, but I just can't get series to work!

FanArt Store Structure:

//server/Movies/24/Backgrounds/24.jpg

Data Store Structure:

//server/TV/24/S07/24 S07 E01.mkv

No fan art is displayed. Please, please let me know what I need to do to get this working!

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Old 03-30-2009, 10:25 AM
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I second this. How do we do fan art for TV series that don't have EPG data and are stored in the media library?
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Old 03-30-2009, 10:57 AM
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Your missing another folder level.

\\Server\Fanart\Movies\24\Backgrounds\24.jpg

You can then have multiple backgrounds under the \backgrounds folder and SageMC will cycle between them all, which is a cool feature.

The same goes for banners (except they don't cycle):

\\Server\Fanart\Movies\24\Banners\24.jpg

And posters soon as well (currently not implemented in SageMC):

\\Server\Fanart\Movies\24\Posters\24.jpg

Both my imports fully support posters and backgrounds stored in this manner.

And ultimately you will also hopefully get:

\\Server\Fanart\TV\24\Season 4\Posters\24.jpg
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Old 03-30-2009, 11:00 AM
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Your missing another folder level.

\\Server\Fanart\24\Backgrounds\24.jpg

You can then have multiple backgrounds under the \backgrounds and SageMC will cycle between them all.
Typo, sorry, I've corrected it.
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Old 03-30-2009, 11:01 AM
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Your missing another folder level.

\\Server\Fanart\24\Backgrounds\24.jpg

You can then have multiple backgrounds under the \backgrounds and SageMC will cycle between them all.

The same goes for banners (except they don't cycle):

\\Server\Fanart\24\Banners\24.jpg

And poster soon as well (currently not implemented in SageMC):

\\Server\Fanart\24\Posters\24.jpg

Both my imports fully support posters and backgrounds stored in this manner.
Well, it doesn't work
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Old 03-30-2009, 11:07 AM
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Well, it doesn't work
Sorry, I mis-typed it as well

\\Server\Fanart\Movies\24\Backgrounds\24.jpg
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Old 03-30-2009, 11:09 AM
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Sorry, I mis-typed it as well

\\Server\Fanart\Movies\24\Backgrounds\24.jpg
That's what I have in the first post?
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Old 03-30-2009, 11:10 AM
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And you've specified the correct file path within SageMC options? And also enabled fanart options?
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Old 03-30-2009, 11:11 AM
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And you've specified the correct file path within SageMC options?
Yes, it works fine for movies and recorded tv, it's just series (which are technically movies in this instance).
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Old 03-30-2009, 11:14 AM
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Data Store Structure:

//server/TV/24/S07/24 S07 E01.mkv
I think this maybe your issue, have you tried changing one show to just 24.mkv. As a test.
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Old 03-30-2009, 11:14 AM
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Yes, it works fine for movies and recorded tv, it's just series.
Just to clarify. Say I have the following:

Dead Like Me-S01E01-Pilot.mkv
Dead Like Me-S01E02-Dead Girl Walking.mkv

Under the current system, AFAIK, I need different fanart for each episode stored in my media library. This is ludicrous and a waste of space.
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Old 03-30-2009, 11:16 AM
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That worked for just that one file!

//server/TV/24/S07/24.mkv

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Old 03-30-2009, 11:20 AM
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I need different fanart for each episode stored in my media library. This is ludicrous and a waste of space.
I hope you are wrong. If you are correct then that is ridiculous!
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Old 03-30-2009, 11:21 AM
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Actually, under the current system (as of the release last night) you would use the following folder structure:

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[CentralFanartFolder]\TV\[SeriesTitle]\Backgrounds
[CentralFanartFolder]\TV\[SeriesTitle]\Banners
[CentralFanartFolder]\TV\[SeriesTitle]\Posters
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Old 03-30-2009, 11:22 AM
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Actually, under the current system (as of the release last night) you would use the following folder structure:

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[CentralFanartFolder]\TV\[SeriesTitle]\Backgrounds
[CentralFanartFolder]\TV\[SeriesTitle]\Banners
[CentralFanartFolder]\TV\[SeriesTitle]\Posters
Aloha,
Mike
Yes, I read that in the release notes, but that doesn't work for series that are not recorded tv, i.e. converted to mkv and under movies.
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Old 03-30-2009, 11:24 AM
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But without EPG data how is SageMC supposed to be able to connect an imported episode from DVD to a TV series?
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I hope you are wrong. If you are correct then that is ridiculous!
At least it worked

What you need to do is use one of the scrapers to re-import your show into TV recordings. I prefer EP's scraper only because I've not spent much time with Stuckless's. However doing this will proberly cause the poster (coverart) not to work so you maybe better off using Stuckless's BMT which will place poster in the new fanart folder as well as the old way of doing posters.
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Old 03-30-2009, 11:26 AM
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Actually, under the current system (as of the release last night) you would use the following folder structure:

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[CentralFanartFolder]\TV\[SeriesTitle]\Backgrounds
[CentralFanartFolder]\TV\[SeriesTitle]\Banners
[CentralFanartFolder]\TV\[SeriesTitle]\Posters
Aloha,
Mike
Not for imported media which hasn't been scraped and added back into the DB. It would appear to Sage as an imported movie.
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Old 03-30-2009, 11:29 AM
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At least it worked

What you need to do is use one of the scrapers to re-import your show into TV recordings. I prefer EP's scraper only because I've not spent much time with Stuckless's.
I don't want to do that. So are you saying I have to have a jpg with the same file name as EVERYONE of my shows? If that is the case then I'll just stop using fanart for imported series.
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Yes, I read that in the release notes, but that doesn't work for series that are not recorded tv, i.e. converted to mkv and under movies.
Generate a log file and post it here. That should help us see what is going on.

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