Fanart + Individual Episodes Question...

[moothekow]

I read in the FAQ that the locations for fanart for TV shows are as follows:

TV/SeriesName/Backgrounds
TV/SeriesName/Posters
TV/SeriesName/Banners
TV/SeriesName/Season #/Backgrounds
TV/SeriesName/Season #/Posters
TV/SeriesName/Seaons #/Banners

Does this mean that there is no way to provide episode-specific fan art options? (i.e. all episodes in a given season have to share all the data)?

Thanks in advance for anyone who wants to assist me :-). I'm actually in the process of writing a windows service that does some file system monitoring to actually detect whenever new media files are added and automatically download/update all the fanart (and create .properties files) based on a fairly heavily modified version of the code released for the 'Media Browser' plug-in for Windows Media Center.

Also - another random tangent -- do the .properties files always have to be in the same folder as the actual media files (with the name of the media file + ".properties".

[aflat]

No need to write a service, they have already been written. I prefer Sage Job Queue, or SJQ for short. I have it set up to do exactly what you are asking. I tried DirMOn2, which supposedly can do the same thing, but I liked SJQ better myself.

As for the fanart, I'm not sure sorry, I'm still converting to a central location, so all my files are still next to the media itself.

[moothekow]

Originally Posted by aflat

No need to write a service, they have already been written. I prefer Sage Job Queue, or SJQ for short. I have it set up to do exactly what you are asking. I tried DirMOn2, which supposedly can do the same thing, but I liked SJQ better myself.

As for the fanart, I'm not sure sorry, I'm still converting to a central location, so all my files are still next to the media itself.

Not writing it exclusively for use with SageTV. It's a collaborative effort with my brother who uses WMC exclusively. I'm also writing in a way that it will do updates in a way that I can use all the metadata in the Media Browser plugin for WMC. I actually like the visuals of Media Browser a bit more than SageTV -- so I use WMC/Media Browser on my actual HTPC -- but have an HD200 that I use when watching TV in other rooms. Plus I've found that the code my service is using to fetch/update metadata tends to a better job of figuring out what files are than things like BMT and the other metadata scrapper tools I've tried.

Also - by 'when new media files are added' - I meant in certain folders that were monitored.. not necessarily at the time they're imported in SageTV (again - because I needs to work independently :-). Also - not like it's a massive undertaking.. actually creating a windows service in .NET is pretty simple/straight forward... And I had all the code for collecting/saving metadata already written from when I changed Media Browser to use an SQL database rather than it's file-system based system for saving information.