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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 automaticly download thumbnails for music-albums and video/movies from the internet or you can create your very own custom thumbnails, (or you can download custom thumbnails that others have created).
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| | = Introduction = |
| | <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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| ==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 or Paint Shop Pro (or even Paint in Windows). You can alternativly downloaded thumbnails that others have created from the internet (from places like [http://www.chokemaniac.net/download.php?cat=pm3 ChokeManiac.net], [http://www.xbox-skins.net xbox-skins.net] and many XBMC fan forums). 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 transparancy) 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 recomended for video/movies thumbnails (which is the size that is most common on [[IMDB|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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| ==Thumbnailing Individual Items in a Single Directory==
| | 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: |
| Name the icon file the same as the file you would like it to display for with a .tbn extension ie: ''Transformers.avi, Transformers.tbn''. This is particularly useful for using custom thumbnails for movies.
| | * '''[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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| '''Example:'''
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| Movies\path\'''moviename.avi'''
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| Movies\path\'''moviename.tbn'''
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| | '''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> |
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| | * 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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| ==Folder Thumbnails==
| | '''{{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.}}''' |
| [[image:myvideos.jpg|right|360px]]If you store each of your movies and music-albums in a separate subfolder to keep things organized, you can also make the movie folder have a custom thumbnail image. To do this you eiter need to save your JPG/PNG thumbnail as folder.jpg and place it in your movie/album folder, or you can save it was <foldername>.tbn and place it inside the same folder and you folder is located, (remember, XBMC first checks for <foldername>.tbn before checking for folder.jpg). Note that it MUST be named .jpg, even if it is a .png format image.
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| '''Examples:'''
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| Movies\path\moviename\'''folder.jpg'''
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| Music\path\album\'''folder.jpg'''
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| Movies\path\'''foldername'''\
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| Movies\path\'''foldername.tbn'''
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| Now your album/artist folder will have a lovely custom thumbnail-image.<br>
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| ==Program Thumbnails==
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| In order to display the image displayed for a game, emulator or application, simply rename the desired image '''default.tbn''' and place it in the folder where the corresponding default.XBE is located.
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| ==Music Thumbnails==
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| Music Thumbnails are assigned as part of a multitier process. First, the Tag Reader runs and caches any embedded art using the folder path and the album name. If the album name is unavailable, its cached using the fully qualified name. (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 XBox with XBMC (which is described in the [[Ripping CDs]] section).<br>
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| Recomended 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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| :'''Notes:''' 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. When you first enter a folder path, XBMC checks the database before all this occurs. If the items are found in the database, all of this is skipped because the information is already known.
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| :Using Album Information 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.<br>
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| :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><br>
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| <br><br>'''Then 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 folder path and album name. | |
| ;2) Cached filename.tbn
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| :This includes an embedded thumbnail cached with the fully qualified name.
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| ;3) Remote filename.tbn
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| :This is a filename.tbn 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.tbn
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| :This is a foldername.tbn on a remote share/folder which is then cached.<br>
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| '''Examples:'''
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| In this example audiofilename.mp3 will use audiofilename.tbn as thumbnail:
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| Music\path\'''audiofilename.mp3'''
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| Music\path\'''audiofilename.tbn'''
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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.tbn'''
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| Music\path\'''cuelistname.cue'''
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| Music\path\'''cuelistname.mp3'''
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| Music\path\'''cuelistname.tbn'''
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| Music\path\'''shoutcastlinkname.pls'''
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| Music\path\'''shoutcastlinkname.tbn'''
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| Music\path\'''audiostreamname.strm'''
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| Music\path\'''audiostreamname.tbn'''
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| ==Video Thumbnails==
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| You can either use your own custom tumbnails or you can let XBMC download video tumbnails from the internet via [[IMDB|IMDB (Internet Movie Database)]].<br>
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| In order to automatically get thumbnails from IMDB you can either select each file and press the black-button on the controller ("Info" on the DVD-Remote) or choose "Movie Information" from the context menu.<br>
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| Or you can select the share/folder that your videos are stored in and choose "Query Info for all Files" from the context menu. This will scan all movies in that share/folder and automatically download the movie-information and a tumbnail for each movie that is found on IMDB. <br><br>
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| <br><br>'''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
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| :'''For files''', XBMC checks <filename>.tbn and uses that if it exists. The thumbnail is cached the first time it is read.<br>
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| :'''For folders''', XBMC first checks for <foldername>.tbn in the same directory as the folder is in.<br>
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| :If no <foldername>.tbn exists XBMC then checks for folder.jpg inside the movie-folder. In either case the first found thumb of those is cached.
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| ;3) IMDB Thumbnail
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| :When you do a "Movie Information" lookup on a movie, XBMC will download the thumbnail from [[IMDB|IMDB (Internet Movie Database)]] automatically if the movie has no thumbnail at all.<br>
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| :The "Get Thumb" option from the movie information screen can then be used to switch between the IMDB thumbnail and any user-defined thumbnail you may have.<br>
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| '''Examples for User-Defined Thumbnails:'''
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| ==== Single Movie File ====
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| Movies\path\'''moviename.tbn'''
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| Movies\path\'''moviename.avi'''
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| For the above example "moviename.avi" will now use the thumbnail "moviename.tbn".
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| ==== Stacked Movie File ====
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| Movies\path\'''moviename CD1.tbn'''
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| Movies\path\'''moviename CD1.avi'''
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| Movies\path\'''moviename CD2.avi'''
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| For the above example the stacked movie "moviename" will now use the thumbnail "moviename CD1.tbn"
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| The same goes for playlists, and [[HOW-TO:_Play_Internet_Streams|internet-stream files]], example:
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| Movies\path\'''videoplaylistname.pls'''
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| Movies\path\'''videoplaylistname.tbn'''
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| Movies\path\'''videostreamname.strm'''
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| Movies\path\'''videostreamname.tbn'''
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| ==Picture Thumbnails==
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| '''XBMC applies thumbnails to picture files in the following order:'''
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| ;1) Cached Thumbnail
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| :Thumbnails are cached to UserData\Thumbnails\Pictures using the CRC of the path of the file or folder.
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| ;2) Images
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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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| ;3) 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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| ==Bookmark Thumbnails==
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| You can change the thumbnail displayed for a bookmark by editing UserData\sources.xml.<br>
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| '''Note:''' Bookmark thumbnails have to be in a folder on the local XBox Harddrive!<br>
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| Simply modify your bookmark as shown:
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| <xml>
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| <bookmark>
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| <name>Music</name>
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| <path>xbms://192.168.1.100:1400/Music/</path>
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| <thumbnail>F:\Apps\XBMC\thumbs\shares\thumb.png</thumbnail>
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| </bookmark>
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| </xml>
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