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Video cover art location?
fermenter:
Thanks Roderick, and apologies for dragging you along on someone else's ride!
I confess I don't know what sidecar files are - I see nothing in my video directories other than the video files and their thumbnail images. And really, the image files aren't that much of a problem - they are a mild clutter annoyance when browsing in Windows and I have a couple of bits of hardware that list them by name when I browse for network media, but I am rapidly streamlining 'theater view' together with a Harmony hub so I'm spending a lot less time navigating directories anyway.
It's very decent of you to be so thorough with your replies, thank you. :)
RoderickGI:
No problem.
You must not have Sidecar files turned on for video. I do, as it means all tags are stored both in the library and next to the files, in a sidecar file. It makes the data more transportable.
The settings is at "Options > General > Importing & Tagging > Store tags in external sidecar files if the file type does not support tagging: Video.
There is only one option in there; to select video files or not. In your case I guess they would just add more clutter!
raymondjpg:
I have read and re-read this thread, and the Wiki, and while I can quite readily prevent Sidecar files turning up in my video files directories, I have been unable to prevent jpg files from being generated when importing to the library.
Is there an option to do this? I have "Get cover art" and "Build thumbnails" unchecked in Configure auto-import.
RoderickGI:
The "Get Movie & TV Info" function will download Cover Art for Movies and TV program Episodes, and place them next to the video file.
The only way to stop that would be to turn off the "Get Movie & TV Info" function in Auto Import, and then run that process manually for each video file, or a group of files, and deselect the "Use Image" or "Get Image" checkbox. That setting gets turned back on for each run for individual file lookups, but stays turned off for file group lookups. You could run the "Get Movie & TV Info" function using the "Recently Imported" Smartlist, to make it easier to find newly imported files.
Or you could just delete the jpg files regularly. Perhaps even create a Task Scheduler job and script to do it.
I guess you must really hate jpgs to be bothered though. They don't take up much space, without them MC or any media application is much less pretty. Poster art has been part of the movie experience forever. But, your choice, and above are the options.
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Wait!
I thought about this some more. As the "Get Image" setting is remembered when the "Get Movie & TV Info" function is run for multiple files, and as Auto Import would normally be run for multiple files, then you should be able to turn that setting off and have it affect future runs of the "Get Movie & TV Info" function.
Just select a couple of video files, launch the "Get Movie & TV Info" function, uncheck the "Get Image" checkbox, run the function by clicking Ok, and the setting will be saved. Now future Auto Import runs with multiple files imported won't get images. I tested that.
Then I tried importing just one file with "Get Image" unchecked, and MC didn't get an image then either. So MC must use the multiple file method of retrieving metadata when the "Get Movie & TV Info" function is run via Auto Import, even if only one file is imported. Cool.
So that is your fix. Just uncheck the "Get Image" setting in the "Get Movie & TV Info" function.
raymondjpg:
--- Quote from: RoderickGI on January 17, 2019, 06:54:30 pm ---The "Get Movie & TV Info" function will download Cover Art for Movies and TV program Episodes, and place them next to the video file.
The only way to stop that would be to turn off the "Get Movie & TV Info" function in Auto Import, and then run that process manually for each video file, or a group of files, and deselect the "Use Image" or "Get Image" checkbox. That setting gets turned back on for each run for individual file lookups, but stays turned off for file group lookups. You could run the "Get Movie & TV Info" function using the "Recently Imported" Smartlist, to make it easier to find newly imported files.
Or you could just delete the jpg files regularly. Perhaps even create a Task Scheduler job and script to do it.
I guess you must really hate jpgs to be bothered though. They don't take up much space, without them MC or any media application is much less pretty. Poster art has been part of the movie experience forever. But, your choice, and above are the options.
.
.
.
Wait!
I thought about this some more. As the "Get Image" setting is remembered when the "Get Movie & TV Info" function is run for multiple files, and as Auto Import would normally be run for multiple files, then you should be able to turn that setting off and have it affect future runs of the "Get Movie & TV Info" function.
Just select a couple of video files, launch the "Get Movie & TV Info" function, uncheck the "Get Image" checkbox, run the function by clicking Ok, and the setting will be saved. Now future Auto Import runs with multiple files imported won't get images. I tested that.
Then I tried importing just one file with "Get Image" unchecked, and MC didn't get an image then either. So MC must use the multiple file method of retrieving metadata when the "Get Movie & TV Info" function is run via Auto Import, even if only one file is imported. Cool.
So that is your fix. Just uncheck the "Get Image" setting in the "Get Movie & TV Info" function.
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Thanks for the quick response.
I tried unchecking the "Use image" box when invoking the Get Movie and TV Info function on a couple of files, then "Use this data", but the "Use image" box remained checked when I tried it on another file. Also, jpg files were still generated when importing to the library. In short that method did not work for me.
However, your post sent me in the right direction because there is the ability to uncheck Get movie and TV info in the Configure auto-import setup which, when unchecked, resulted in no jpgs being generated.
I don't hate jpgs, just unnecessary clutter in my video fileserver directories. I'll try Theater view without jpgs and see if it compromises my experience of JRiver in any way. If it does, I'll be looking for some other option.
Edit: Being a novice at all this I misinterpreted your instructions. Selecting two TV shows at once allowed me to disable the Get image option, such that no jpgs were created in the video source directory. The Get image option is still checked when selecting one file Get movie and TV info, but I'll rely on your advice that from now on it should remain disabled for multiple file imports into the library.
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