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horstepipe
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Hey

I think it would be sensible to add an option not to save episode thumbs.

I think in most libraries they are responsible for an excessive size of the thumbnails folder which can become a problem on systems with limited storage like the Raspberry Pi.

 

Best regards

horstepipe
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Kodi does this, caching of images in Kodi at that level is not configurable.

But can't you just block Kodi from getting these images or rather don't tell Kodi where to find them?

horstepipe
Posted

you you dont want episode images at all, not show them in Kodi at all.

Sorry I don't really understand what you mean.

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He is saying we could block them completely, but not caching them is a Kodi thing. That is not to say we will, just could block them completely.

horstepipe
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He is saying we could block them completely, but not caching them is a Kodi thing. That is not to say we will, just could block them completely.

Blocking them completely (but only in Kodi) is what I actually wanted to ask for. Sorry that wasn't clear.

horstepipe
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I absolutely understand that they are not being shown in Kodi at all anymore if this happens.

But in my opinion these are the less important but the most storage expensive pictures, so for systems with only 32gb storage it would be really helpful.

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You can turn them off on the server. 

 

If you don't want to do that, we can add it to the Trello board and see how many votes the feature gets, but it is a bit hacky to add it to the addon.  

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horstepipe
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You can turn them off on the server. 

 

If you don't want to do that, we can add it to the Trello board and see how many votes the feature gets, but it is a bit hacky to add it to the addon.  

 

I could live with turning them off on the server, but how do I get rid of the ones I already have? I don't store them with the media files...

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Actually looking into the server more, I don't think you can turn them off just for episodes.  @@Luke?

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Nevermind - you can.

 

Go to Settings->Metadata->Services

 

Change the 'Customize for this media type' to Episodes

 

Open the 'Image Settings' section

 

Deselect 'Primary'.

 

I don't know how to get rid of ones you already have without resetting all your artwork.

horstepipe
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I don't know how to get rid of ones you already have without resetting all your artwork.

Yeah that's the problem, most of my artworks are hand picked so resetting it is a no-go for me :/

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Okay so now @@Luke - any way to purge images deselected from metadata?

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Unfortunately not really. I thought he said he didn't want that though? I may have mis-interpreted.

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Yeah, that is what he wants, but it is a pretty niche scenario.  At least if he turns it off now his image db won't continue to grow.

 

@@horstepipe - you could soft link to a USB drive for your images or something..

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Dear friend,

 

I have KODI Jarvis 17.0 on booth my Windows machine. At home, connected directly to NAS, i have Tv Show episode thumbs on my screen, but on laptop with media cloud configuration, everything is same but no episode thumbs. Can i change this in KODI so i can have episode thumbs on my laptop to?

 

Best regards

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