Movie sets artwork

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As movie sets comprise a number of movies, dedicated artwork is available that (should) differ from the artwork of the individual movies in the set. This unique movie set artwork can be scraped and displayed while browsing your Kodi library.

v17 and prior, Kodi has limited functionality for movie set artwork. Users were required to either use the Choose Art method or use an add-on to source and cache movie set artwork- such as Artwork Beef.

v18 enables scraping of online movie set artwork [1], but add-ons are still required to scan local movie set artwork.

v19 has full support for movie set artwork, as described below.


Scanning & Scraping

Scraping

v18 introduces the ability to scrape extended artwork from the online information providers without the use of additional add-ons. It is considered an advanced feature.

To use this feature requires completing the following three steps...


1. Add the below code (aka artwork whitelist) to the advancedsettings.xml file, ensuring you do not duplicate any tags if they already exist.
<advancedsettings>
	<videolibrary>
		<moviesetextraart>
			<arttype>banner</arttype>
			<arttype>clearart</arttype>
			<arttype>clearlogo</arttype>
			<arttype>discart</arttype>
         <arttype>fanart1</arttype> <!-- Multiple fanart -->
         <arttype>fanart2</arttype> <!-- Add as many as required. -->
         <arttype>fanart3</arttype> 
			<arttype>keyart</arttype>
			<arttype>landscape</arttype>
		</moviesetextraart>
	</videolibrary>
</advancedsettings>
2. Install the Universal Movie Scraper and adjust the settings to enable scraping of Extended artwork as they are disabled by default. (see image)
3. Restart Kodi and scrape movies as per usual. Collection artwork will be scraped and cached for use in Kodi


Note: The code box above adds common extended artwork that most skins will utilise. It is your choice which extended artwork you add. If you add additional to that shown, ensure the skin has support to display it.


Scanning Local Artwork

Local movie set artwork is saved in the Movie Set Information Folder starting with Kodi v19. The artwork whitelist above must be configured. Artwork Beef can be used for Kodi version 16-18.

To set up the local artwork, use the following method...

  1. Create the Central Movie Set folder
  2. Create sub-folders for each movie set
  3. Name the movie set sub-folder exactly as the collection is named in Kodi. This is important or else the movie set folder will be ignored.
  4. Save artwork to the sub-folder using short filenames. (See image)



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