[mythtv-users] banners/coverart/fanart/etc. cleanup

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Bill,

Monday, November 16, 2015, 6:24:02 PM, you wrote:

> On 11/10/2015 11:46 AM, Kevin Calvert wrote:
>> Is there any known way to go about cleaning up this sort of artwork for
>> since deleted movies/tv shows?

> Mine's building up too, but I've chosen to ignore it :(, because I
> think the answer is: no.

> It's easy enough to develop a list of current recording/video artwork
> with the Services API (and perhaps with Perl|Python bindings/SQL) but
> I don't see a safe way to clear out the recordedartwork table entries.

> What I don't know is what happens if a new recording is made of a
> program that already has an entry in recordedartwork. You'd need
> to test what happens if the inetref/season exists in the table
> and there're no files. Would mythmetadatalookup ignore the old
> filenames in the table and re-all the actual images?

My experience is a bit of both. It won't replace older generic artwork
with newer, but it will fetch episode/season specific artwork.

I also think that you can safely clear the artwork directory. I think
that whenever it can't find something, it will download again. But you
can easily test by moving the artwork for one movie out of the
directory and then go in the frontend to that movie and see what
happens. It will however take a few minutes before any new artwork
shows and you might have to restart the frontend ones. If it doesn't
work, you can move it back.

Tot mails,
  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

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