Dan64 30 Posted November 30, 2020 Share Posted November 30, 2020 Starting from the October release 1.34, the extra fanarts pictures (fanart1, fanart2, ...) are not more saved in the folder "extrafanart" this is required for Kodi compatibility. Moreover is not more working the option to copy extrafanart into extrathumbs. I cannot estimate exactly the release that broken the compatibility since also the plugin downgrade to the previous release is not working. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy2Play 8246 Posted November 30, 2020 Share Posted November 30, 2020 (edited) 13 minutes ago, Dan64 said: this is required for Kodi compatibility But Kodi no longer supports them, but can't current find the other topics. Get Extrafanart Directory Back - Windows - Powershell - Tools and Utilities - Emby Community Why are "extrafanart" sub directories no longer created for New Content? - Emby Server - Emby Community No extrafanart folder when using Emby in Docker - Linux - Emby Community @Dan64 Edited November 30, 2020 by Happy2Play added other links Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan64 30 Posted November 30, 2020 Author Share Posted November 30, 2020 Unfortunately I seems that the skin that I'm using (Transparency!) is not aware of this issue. I tried to downgrade the plugin till the version 1.0.11, but the pictures are still saved in movie's folder and not in the subfolder "extrafanart". Probably this feature is implemented in the emby-server, so I will try to downgrade to the previous emby version. It would be useful to rework on the plugin settings in order to remove the very obsolete option "copy extrafanart into extrathumbs" and substitute it with a more useful option "copy in extrafanart". In this way will be kept the compatibility with the skins which are still using the extrafanart folder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37010 Posted November 30, 2020 Share Posted November 30, 2020 Correct, it's in the server core, not the plugin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan64 30 Posted December 1, 2020 Author Share Posted December 1, 2020 I downgraded to server version 4.4.3.0 and now the "extrafanart" folder is generated. I hope that in the coming new versions will added the compatibility option to still support the "extrafanart" folder. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37010 Posted December 1, 2020 Share Posted December 1, 2020 Why not just ask the skin developer to update? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan64 30 Posted December 1, 2020 Author Share Posted December 1, 2020 Hi Luke, in this case you are the developer. Moreover the functionality of managing the folders is built in the server, which is under your management. So is up to you to decide to update the plugin. I think that this update is necessary to smooth the transition to the new standard as already happen in the past. During this transition the user will have on their storage the pictures located both on the movie's folder and the extrafanart subfolder. Kodi or the skins supporting them should be able to support both the standards, probably this will happen with the rollout of stable version of Kodi 19. But currently the stable version is Kodi 18.9 and the skins are supporting only the extrafanart folder. It is necessary also to consider that not all the users are able or willing to move to the latest software version and this transition could takes more than expected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37010 Posted December 1, 2020 Share Posted December 1, 2020 Thanks for the info. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan64 30 Posted May 23, 2021 Author Share Posted May 23, 2021 Hi Luke, I'd like to know if with the new Emby Version 4.6.0.5 has been added the compatibility update for managing the "extrafanart". I recently tested Kodi 19, but the decision of remove the support to python 2.0 has broken the compatibility with a lot of plugins and themes. At the moment the support by the external developers to Kodi 19 is so low that I was forced to rollback to Kodi 18, and probably I will stay with this version for a lot of time. Given this situation the compatibility update for managing the "extrafanart" is even more necessary (actually since previously it was available it is just a rollback not a new development and should require less time). Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37010 Posted May 23, 2021 Share Posted May 23, 2021 3 hours ago, Dan64 said: Hi Luke, I'd like to know if with the new Emby Version 4.6.0.5 has been added the compatibility update for managing the "extrafanart". I recently tested Kodi 19, but the decision of remove the support to python 2.0 has broken the compatibility with a lot of plugins and themes. At the moment the support by the external developers to Kodi 19 is so low that I was forced to rollback to Kodi 18, and probably I will stay with this version for a lot of time. Given this situation the compatibility update for managing the "extrafanart" is even more necessary (actually since previously it was available it is just a rollback not a new development and should require less time). Thanks I don't have anything new to report at this time. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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