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Trialing Plex for a few months, there was a pretty neat feature within their Server software that would be handy if added to Media Browser.... Sometimes when the server picks up a movie cover that is incorrect or can't pick the movie cover up at all, there was an option called 'Fix Incorrect Match' which basically allowed a manual keyword search and also allowed the user to select a source scraper. This would then return a list of results (movie name and year) and the user could select the appropriate movie they were looking for and then allowed the user to override the built in search and (for me) returned a 100% success rate of retrieving all invalid and missing covers. I understand that Media Browser should probably automatically retrieve, however, I have come across this issue multiple times now where I have named the movie incorrectly (only slighty - e.g. Space missing, character wrong, etc) and Media Browser will not retrieve the correct title, even after manually correcting the name of the movie/folder and hitting 'Refresh Metadata', it still doesn't work. I have to manually go in and delete the Movie.xml file plus all files relating to that movie (excluding the actual movie file) and try again. If that doesn't work I have to try manually editing the metadata, save it and try again. Last resort I have been manually deleting the 'TheMovieDB ID', plug in the IMDB ID, save and refresh again - that seems to work. If we had a 'Fix Incorrect Match' option (or similar) it could override all the manual labour involved and link the returned result directly to the movie. Even if the movie was named incorrectly, it would still apply all the correct metadata, coverart, etc. to the right place.

I have been using MB2 for a long time and just now found the time to convert over to MB3. With just over 1500 movies, it was not a task I was looking for too...but I must say the conversion was painless. Along with this, I have decided to take the time to update all the artwork, covers, etc. for all my media (was still using stark covers). I have reverted all my covers back to original .jpg's and now use CoverArt for everything. In particular, for Collections (and boxsets) I use the "fan" treatment. One question I have is: What is the difference between a collection and boxset? The issue I am having is with "nested collections". What I mean by this is have a few collections that I have nested inside collections. For example, I have a Batman Collection (with a collection.xml and accompanying folder.jpg and backdrop.jpg). Inside that I have Batman Anthology Collection and The Dark Knight Collection (each with corresponding xml's, jpg's, etc.). Then inside those I have the actual movie folders. The issue is that CoverArt dresses the Batman Anthology and Dark Knight Collections correctly (as a fan)...but the parent Collection (Batman Collection) gets a clearcase treatment (with the blu-ray spine). I do not have that treatment selected anywhere in the CoverArt settings. My guess is that it does not recognize the nested folders correctly...but maybe there is a setting somewhere that I am missing? Here's what the folder structure looks like. The "Batman Collection" level does not get the "fan" treatment...the ones below that do. Thanks.

This was a labour of love finding these and editing them. A few of the covers never existed so I had to recreate the cover from scratch. Banner is my original design http://www.mediafire.com/download/ih4xna8vi44qku5/Tales_Of_The_Unexpected.rar

Hi ebr, I was wondering if i can use in MB3 a custom template for my movies (for example bluray.png) in order to have my personal bluray treatment like the one we were able to use in MB2. FYI i have use UNC path with the image i want and i choose through indicator overlays tab "select custom image location" but what ever i have made, it never change current treatment ...and if yes what is the necessary steps in order to make it visible. Thanks in advance, Jimmy

Playing with a new CoverArt style to work with the more modern clients better. Thoughts...?

When I change things in Coverart I noticed it will not always be updated even after multiple library refreshes. For testing I changed my thumb and episode overlay but it will not be changed. For episodes that is the case in ROC and NEO and for thumbs only Roc doesn't update like it seems. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/901529/Media%20Browser/MB3/Coverart%20not%20updating%201.log https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/901529/Media%20Browser/MB3/Coverart%20not%20updating%202.log

I just put up version 4.0.3.5 as a beta. It just has a couple of things in it: I adjusted the scaling logic for drawing indicator overlays. This definitely helped out the situation where you were putting these overlays on a landscape image and it might also help when you have your DPI set to over 100%. I added a MetroCaseCDs treatment style for things like box sets when you are using the MetroCase for everything else. It will cause all your treatments to re-build on first access to be sure everything is updated properly. Please try it out and post any issues here. Thanks.

Hey hey, I was just wondering if there were more indicator overlays we could add. I've noticed some of the new clients don't show watched status for example. They will most likely be added, but I thought maybe CoverArt could tackle it instead. I like the way Trakt displays watched status and rating, with the 'Watched' in the top right corner, and the rating above it. Would it be possible to add something like this? It may not work for some of the styles, but it would look great on the new flat one, or just a blank style. Thanks, -Scott

Hey guys, Just a quick feature request. If possible, I would like to add an overlay to my 3D videos without adding a cover treatment. Let me know if you would like any more detail. Thank you!

Made an english subtitle overlay for CoverArt in the style of the Diamond Mediainfo Icons by neil18/chip. Also included a PNG of the empty icon for others to make their own language. PNG

Having trouble with CoverArt not applying the selected treatment to my box set collection. Most of the covers are fine but newly added boxsets appear very strange. I have tried refreshing the collection through the web interface but nothing changes. The first 2 screenshots are what the new boxsets look like and the 3rd is what they should look like I am using CoverArt 4.0.2.1 Thanks server-63517023229.log

Hey, I love using Cover Art on MBC, but it looks really out of place on MBT. It would be great to have the option to disable CA treatments. Cheers.

Hey, I love using Cover Art on MBC, but it looks really out of place on Windows Phone. It would be great to have the option to disable CA treatments. Cheers.