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| {{editor box|Here's the idea for the future of this page:
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| * The page itself will be a landing page for all topics about artwork:
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| ** Move most of this to a "how to make your own artwork" page.
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| ** A guide for using [[Add-on:Artwork Downloader]], which can be its own page or on the existing add-on page for Artwork downloader.
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| ** A better how to guide on using advancedsettings.xml to change artwork size.
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| * consolidate and reorganize the following pages along with this page:
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| ** [[Extra fanart]]
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| ** [[FanArt]]
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| ** [[Wide banner icons]]
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| An impressive feature of XBMC is its ability to display custom '''thumbnails''' (also known as an "icon") on most items displayed. You can assign thumbnails to folders, programs, music, videos, bookmarks, and of course pictures. You can choose to let XBMC automatically download thumbnails for music-albums and video/movies from the internet or you can create your very own custom thumbnails. You can also download custom thumbnails that others have created.
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| When talking about movies the terms "Cover Art", "Posters" (term used on [http://thetvdb.com/ TheTVDB]) and "Folder Image" are all used to refer to the '''same''' thing we are talking about here. In the XBMC world Thumbnail is the generic term that encompasses all of those things, so don't get confused.
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| | <section begin="intro" />The use of artwork will transform your mundane media player into a showpiece to be proud of, especially when teamed up with your favourite skin. Kodi will allow you to display Posters, Fanart, Album Covers, Actor and Artist images to name a few. Install the '''''[[Add-on:Picture_Slideshow_Screensaver| Picture Slideshow add-on]]''''', and you will have a constant display of video or music fanart to brighten your entertainment room.<section end="intro" /> |
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| {{Note|Despite what the term Thumbnail implies, thumbnails in XBMC are NOT necessarily small images in terms of resolution or size on disk. A Thumbnail in XBMC can be a 800 x 1200 pixel image with a file size of over 300 Kilobytes for example, but typically thumbnails are restricted to smaller sizes than that due to performance concerns.}}<br />
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| | If you prefer not to manually source and save artwork to your local media folders, then scraped artwork can be automatically downloaded and saved into your local folders by installing one of the following add-ons: |
| | * '''[https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=360078 Artwork Dump]'''- for v19 and later |
| | * '''[https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=258886 Artwork Beef]'''- for v18 and earlier |
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| == Custom Thumbnails ==
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| You can easily create your very own user-defined thumbnails on your computer with image tools like Adobe Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, Paint.NET or even Paint in Windows. <br /> You can alternatively download thumbnails that others have created on the internet.
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| Then you simply have to rename those thumbnails and transfer/copy them to the right location and XBMC will display them. Use JPG or PNG (with transparency) image-format, and size of the picture to anything from 128x128 to 256x256 in pixel size, (the larger the image is the better it will look on a good display but at the same time large thumbnails loads slower). On a non-HDTV displays a image that is approx 100x140 is recommended for video/movies thumbnails (which is the size that is most common on [http://www.imdb.com/ IMDb]), and approx 75x75 for music-albums (which is the default size on [http://www.allmusic.com allmusic.com]). For 720p/1080i HDTV displays a size of approx 182x256 for video/movies thumbnails, and approx 200x200 for music-albums (such music-albums can be found on [http://www.allmusic.com allmusic.com]).
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| ==== Thumbnail Cache ====
| | '''v19 Matrix''' introduced new artwork settings. These new {{Kodi}} settings replace the artwork settings in the new python range of scrapers. They also remove the need for the advancedsettings.xml artwork tags which were introduced in v18.<br> |
| :''see also:'' '''[[ThumbnailCache]]''' for a thorough description of the '''thumbnail cache'''<br />
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| XBMC will cache all thumbnails to [[userdata]]\Thumbnails\ using the '''CRC''' of the path of the file or folder as a filename. That is the first location XBMC will generally look for a thumbnail for a given item.<br />
| | * Music artwork settings are located in {{highlight|[[Settings/Media/Music#Artwork|Settings > Media > Music > Artwork]]}} |
| | * Video artwork settings are located in {{highlight|[[Settings/Media/Videos#Artwork|Settings > Media > Videos > Artwork]]}} |
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| In order for your custom thumbnail to show, you may have to delete the cached thumbnail.
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| When thumbnails are cached they may be scaled down from the source image. How much they are scaled down depends on a setting that you can control using the [[Advancedsettings.xml#.3Cthumbsize.3E|<imageres>]] tag in [[advancedsettings.xml]].
| | '''{{red|The {{kodi}} scrapers automatically download artwork with little input required by the user. These pages are for those users that want greater control over their artwork by saving artwork locally or creating their own.}}''' |
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| If you are running XBMC on a very high resolution display and you have Movie cover art, for example, that is displayed as a very large image onscreen with the skin and layout that you are using, then you may want to adjust the <imageres> tag to increase the display quality of your thumbnails.
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| Be aware, however, that increasing the size of cached thumbnails obviously carries an implied disk space usage, and possible XBMC performance penalty, with it.
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| == Folder Thumbnails ==
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| If you store each of your media files in separate subfolders to keep things organized, you can also make the folder have a custom thumbnail image. To do this you either need to save your JPG/PNG thumbnail as folder.jpg and place it inside your movie/album folder, or you can save it as <foldername>deprecated and place it at the same level as the folder in the directory tree.
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| * Remember, XBMC first checks for <foldername>.jpg before checking for folder.jpg.
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| * Some documentation suggests that folder.jpg can be used. In general folder.jpg is superior as it is detected during a scan, i.e. XBMC will correctly use folder.jpg but not folder.jpg.
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| * Note that folder.jpg '''must''' be named .jpg, even if it is a .png format image.
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| '''Examples:'''
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| Movies\path\'''foldername'''\
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| Movies\path\'''foldername.jpg'''
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| Movies\path\moviename\'''folder.jpg'''
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| Music\path\album\'''folder.jpg'''
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| Now your media folder will have a lovely custom thumbnail-image.
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| You can via [[advancedsettings.xml]] change the default filename of the image that XBMC uses for music folders. See the [[advancedsettings.xml#<musicthumbs>|<musicthumbs>]] tag. for more information.
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| [[File:Files.myvideos.jpg|right|500px]]
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| == Music Thumbnails ==
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| Music Thumbnails are assigned as part of a multi-tier process. First, the Tag Reader runs and caches any embedded art using the album name and album artist (or song artist, if that is all that is available). If the album name or artist is unavailable, it is cached using the path name of the song. This assumes, of course, that you have tag reading enabled.<br />
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| You can also use "Get Thumb" to download the album thumbnail from [http://www.allmusic.com allmusic.com (AMG)] for a specific album/folder or do a scan of all your music files in all shares.<br />
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| Thumbnails also get downloaded when you rip AudioCD's to your XBMC device (which is described in the [[Ripping CDs]] section).<br />
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| Recommended is that you store each of your music-albums or artists in a separate subfolder to keep things organized. You can also of course make the folder have a custom thumbnail image.<br />
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| :{{Note|Running a scan automatically enables 'tag reading' so everything can be cached. Once a scan is run, all your files and their associated thumbnails are stored in the database.}}
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| :The Album Information dialog (available from the context menu) will allow you to choose between the cover art available for download from [http://www.allmusic.com allmusic.com] and any user-defined thumbnail you may have. | |
| :Press the "Get Thumb" button to bring up a choice of the local thumbnails you have, the currently assigned thumbnail and the [http://www.allmusic.com allmusic.com] thumbnail.<br />
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| '''The code which assigns thumbnails to files runs and assigns thumbnails in the following order:'''
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| ;1) Cached Album Thumbnail
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| :This is all the embedded album art read by the tag reader and cached using the album name and album artist.
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| ;2) Cached filename.jpg
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| :This includes an embedded thumbnail cached with the fully qualified name.
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| ;3) Remote filename.jpg
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| :This is a filename.jpg on a remote share/folder which is then cached.
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| ;4) Cached folder.jpg
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| :This is a folder.jpg which is cached based off the folder path.
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| ;5) Remote folder.jpg
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| :This is a folder.jpg on a remote share/folder which is then cached.
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| ;6) Remote foldername.jpg
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| :This is a foldername.jpg on a remote share/folder which is then cached.<br /><br />
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| '''Examples:'''
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| In this example audiofilename.mp3 will use audiofilename.jpg as thumbnail:
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| Music\path\'''audiofilename.mp3'''
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| Music\path\'''audiofilename.jpg'''
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| The same goes for playlists, cue-sheets, SHOUTcast, and [[HOW-TO: Play Internet Streams|internet-stream files]], example:
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| Music\path\'''audioplaylistname.m3u'''
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| Music\path\'''audioplaylistname.jpg'''
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| Music\path\'''cuelistname.cue'''
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| Music\path\'''cuelistname.mp3'''
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| Music\path\'''cuelistname.jpg'''
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| Music\path\'''shoutcastlinkname.pls'''
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| Music\path\'''shoutcastlinkname.jpg'''
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| Music\path\'''audiostreamname.strm'''
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| Music\path\'''audiostreamname.jpg'''
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| ::Music fanart
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| {{see also|FanArt#Music_FanArt_in_XBMC}}
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| == Video Thumbnails ==
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| [[File:Files.videos.thumbnails.WSCR.jpg|right|500px]]
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| You can either use your own custom thumbnails or XBMC can retrieve video thumbnails from the internet via [[How To use Scrapers|scrapers]] and cache them locally.
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| '''XBMC applies thumbnails to video files in the following order:'''
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| ;1) Cached Thumbnail
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| Thumbnails are cached to UserData\Thumbnails\Video using the CRC of the path of the file or folder.
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| ;2) User-Defined Thumbnail<br />
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| '''For files:'''
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| XBMC looks for '''<filename>-poster.(jpg/png)''' in the folder containing the media files and uses that as the thumbnail.
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| Note: <filename>.jpg will supersede '''<filename>-poster.(jpg/png)''' (result of Eden backward compatibility)
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| The thumbnail is cached the first time it is read.<br />
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| {{redv|Deprecated:|If movie.jpg is in the same folder it will override any other thumbnail and will be used as the thumbnail for all movie files in that folder.}}
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| '''For folders:'''
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| XBMC checks inside the movie folder for the following files in this order:<br />
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| * '''<filename>-poster.(jpg/png)'''
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| * '''poster.(jpg/png)'''
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| * '''folder.jpg'''
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| {{redv|Deprecated:|XBMC first checks for <foldername>.jpg in the parent folder of the movie folder being processed.
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| If no <foldername>.jpg exists in the parent folder XBMC then checks inside the movie folder for folder.jpg (by default) or any other thumbnail source file names you've specified in the <dvdthumbs> tag in [[AdvancedSettings.xml]].}}
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| '''For TV series specifically:'''
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| {{redv|Deprecated:|The thumbnail image can be either a Poster type image OR a Banner type image. A Poster is longer than it is wide in aspect and a Banner is much wider than it is long in aspect.
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| The same rules apply regarding file naming conventions and by default XBMC will look for folder.jpg for BOTH Posters AND Banners despite the fact that the naming convention might seem
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| Note: Deprecated as of Frodo <dvdthumbs> is no longer part of advancedsettings.xml - Again, you can use the <dvdthumbs> element in advancedsettings.xml to override the default thumbnail file name that XBMC looks for to make things more meaningful for TV series. If, for example, you
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| prefer to use Banners you would probably want to set the <dvdthumbs> element in advancedsettings.xml to remove folder.jpg from the search filter and add banner.jpg to the search filter as follows:
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| <remove>folder.jpg|Folder.jpg|folder.JPG|Folder.JPG</remove>
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| <add>banner.jpg|Banner.jpg|banner.JPG|Banner.JPG|cover.jpg|Cover.jpg|cover.JPG|Cover.JPG</add>
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| </dvdthumbs>
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| The above example will make XBMC ignore all variants of folder.jpg when searching for thumbnails but recognise multiple variants of banner.jpg and cover.jpg and import those instead.
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| {{note|<code>TV series:</code>}}
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| There is a special case with TV Series where, if you choose to use Banners as your primary thumbnails, you also need Posters in some areas of the UI depending on which skin you are using.
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| The Aeon Nox skin, which is extremely popular, has a very nice View mode called BannerPlex for example. If you are using that View as your TV Series View, your primary thumbnails for your TV series will
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| be Banners BUT there are still places where you need to supply a Poster, like the "TV show information" screen that is accessible from the context menu for a Series. In that screen you need a Poster image for the big area on the left that takes up a third of the screen. By default the Banner thumbnail that XBMC imported will be stretched vertically to fill that area and it looks horrible.
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| As of Frodo, XBMC will import Banners and Posters.
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| {{redv|Deprecated:|Fortunately there is a special exception to this rule for TV Series where XBMC will also recognise and import a file called poster.jpg over and above the default thumbnail image.
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| For this reason you should NEVER name your primary thumbnail images poster.jpg and you should NEVER modify the <dvdthumbs> element in advancedsettings.xml to make it search for variants of poster.jpg.
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| Effectively, you should consider the file name poster.jpg to be a reserved file name in XBMC that is used specifically to solve the Banner / Poster combo issue as described further below.}}
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| Certain skins, like Aeon Nox, typically provide an option in the settings for the View itself that allows you to explicitly stipulate that a poster file should be used for those areas where a Poster type image is applicable.
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| In Aeon Nox, the setting is on the slide out menu on the left of the screen when you are viewing your series. If you have the BannerPlex view activated and you slide out that menu, then go to
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| "Viewtype settings", then look under "GENERAL OPTIONS", you will find an option labelled "Use 'poster.jpg' for poster style viewtypes". If you turn that on, then any poster.jpg that you have in your folders
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| {{note|However, that regardless of any settings, poster.jpg will NOT be used as the All Seasons image. For that you MUST provide a season-all.(jpg/png) file. A quick workaround to this problem is to copy an existing poster.jpg file and rename it to season-all.(jpg/png). That will actually work and import fine.}}
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| == Picture thumbnails ==
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| Kodi will generate thumbnails for pictures and folders in the '''[[pictures]]''' area using the following methods:
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| :EXIF thumbnail in JPEG images are then read. If no EXIF thumbnail is available, XBMC will load the image and generate a thumbnail from the image. These are then cached.
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| ;Folders
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| :<MyHolidayPictures>\folder.jpg is checked first. If that file doesn't exist, XBMC will generate a thumbnail from up to 4 random images inside that folder.
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| == Thumbnails for file sources ==
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| You can change the thumbnail displayed for a file source by bringing up the context menu ({{button|menu}} or {{keypress|C}}) and selecting '''"Choose thumbnail"'''.
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| [[Category:Thumbnails|*]]
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