Fan art not working V10

[rumackay]

Cheers Mark

Newly generated files

Manually set options in program

Copied fan art files into folder...actually, now that I think about it...when I first did the install I went to copy the fan art images into the fan art folder but there wasn't a fan art folder. So I just copy/pasted the whole folder into the directory, named "Fanart" just the same as v8's folder. Could that have something to do with it?

The genres thing is from media monkey. I never use genres in etouch but tried checking the options like you had in your config to see if it made any difference

[Mark Norville]

Yeah a folder called Fanart should have been generated.

I would delete all your fanart and then generate with getting from audio db ticked. I am shooting a barrel of fish here, but I always try the unexpected and it works in the end

[rumackay]

Giving that a go. Looks like the audiodb download might take a while though

[Mark Norville]

If need be I would suggest making a temp folder, copy about 10 artists maybe, and point to that directory if you want to test something quick. I will check around my settings and see if there is anything else

[Mark Norville]

I have gone through my config, and nothing in the settings on the program that would affect the fanart, so I think it has something to do with config 9.

[Mark Norville]

Also take a look at this for tagging http://www.freeboxjukebox.com/Forum/index.php?topic=6010.0 I was messing around with mp3 tag, until I found this, I went through my back catalogue that I was retagging within days and with MP3 tag it was taking weeks, months until I was fed up of it, but thanks to this I now have a second wind for tagging.

[rumackay]

I dunno if it makes any difference but mine is called config10

[Mark Norville]

It will work same way or should be

[rumackay]

It's about halfway through the generating db and it looks like the fanart images are being created in the arists/images folder instead of the fanart folder in v8...

[ecbrad]

From memory Fant Art is a manual process as in you need to gran it yourself. It's always created a folder for me though.

AudioDB will grab Artist Info and Bios. I could be wrong though.

Brad

[rumackay]

Audiodb did get the banners, info and bios as well as filling the artist/image folder with pics of the artists but those don't show anywhere that I can see.

I can see the banners but still no fan art. Where exactly are the fanart files supposed to go?

[Mark Norville]

My fanart is in

c:\jukebox software\Fanart

2 Unlimited

jpeg x 2

In the text file it says this Place fanart images here named artist.jpg

Regards

Mark

[rumackay]

Yep, got that too. It was the same for my v8 folder which I copied across

Sounds like you're using v9 Mark which seems to be working the same with the same settings as my old v8. Has something changed from v8/v9 to v10 because I see the artist folder now has a few sub folders (images, audio, related, video) and obviously fanart isn't working for me using the same settings that I was using in v8?

[Barcrest]

Do you have a folder for each artist under the fanart folder? So you have say;

\fanart\beck\image1.jpg

This is so you can have multiple images for each artist.

[rumackay]

And there it is...see...I told you it would be something simple

V10 now requires a subfolder for each artist in the fanart folder. Works great now, cheers everyone for the help. That's why I love this software and this forum 

Now I'm going to spend the next few weeks creating folders for each artist   

Couple of questions on the subject:

- The two sliders under the fanart choices, why have two for each transparency?
- What are the images in the artist/images folder used for?