How to make folder.jpg work?

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Hello,

I have folder Movies, and inside movie1.avi, movie 2.avi etc. I’ve downloaded metadata for the movies with SMP build-in function, and put inside Movies a file named folder.jpg.

Still, SMP displays as a folder thumbnail the thumbnail for movie1.avi. How to make it display folder.jpg instead?

TIA

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There are a few ways.

Easiest I found was call it, 00000000.jpg,  (zeros) and it will always get read as the root jpg. It may take a full power off and on (greater than 5 seconds with remote to off, then on again to see it.

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Unfortunately no success. I have also tried cleaning music library and using my folder.jpg file for a folder without metadata downloaded (works OK).

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The thumbnails that you have downloaded for your movies may be metathumbs (they will have a file name movie1.metathumb).  If so rename your folder.jpg as 1.metathumb.  If this does not work try clearing out the thumbnail cache.

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Works, however it seems at the moment just in some views (and in some the old thumbnail is used). I think I need to wait until WDTV refreshes all the caches.

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I am having this issue, though it displays nothing. I have a folder called “TV Shows” with each show having its own subfolder. I have managed to get all the show and season thumbs showing. I have not managed to get the tv show folder thumb to show up. It is from a pack I found on here so the sizing should be good. I placed it in the “TV Show” folder named as “folder.jpg”. I cleared the library, turned it off and on, and it will not display. Other namings I have tried: folder.metathumb, _folder.metathumb. Any ideas? Trying to get this thing looking nice before I send it home with my Mom.

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Was the thumbnail picture originally a .png?  Where did you get the thumbnail from?

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It was originally a .jpg. I found it in an icon pack on another wd live forum, unfortunately I cannot remember exactly where. It’s 79k. I’ll try a different one. Any you can suggest?

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This is what finally worked for me:

!folder.metathumb

Has an exclamation mark as the first character. The files I use for folders are .jpg.

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ceayuso, tried your method, still will not display an image. How are your folders set up? I have an external hd hooked up with the file structures \TV Shows\Show Name\Season ##\show.s##e##.episodename.mkv and \Movies\Movie Name\moviename.mkv. I have also set up my movie folder this way \Movies\moviename.mkv, and when set up like that it would display the movie cover to the only movie I put in the folder. To be clear I am tried to get the folders Movies and TV Shows to display a thumbnail. The show, season, and episode thumbnails are fine, though I had to try out every outdated, half finished wd metadata grabber in existence. I finally found a combination of two that give me passable results. The movie metadata was not so difficult, though I only did the one movie so heres hoping.

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A lot of us do/did use Themes with Moviesheets, then you get the pictures you want, and since its back to Jpgs this issue is not so bad.

Downside is you can’t use an automatic scraper, but once you are up and running with Thumbgen you just re-scrape the newly added episodes and Movies.

If you do have the issue, lets you create genre folders and the likes as well.

I feel your pain, and went through lots of pain trying to get things looking right.

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I looked into using thumbgen, and it looks like a great program, though i’m afraid I do not have time. I’m to have this done by tomorrow night since that is when my mother is going home (This setup is for her). She probably won’t even notice, but as a 10 year xbmc veteran I have this problem letting litte things like that go, haha. This WD Live device is pretty cool, I may pick one up for myself and keep tinkering.

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I have a simple set up for now. I’m using the Kudos v4.1 theme and ThumbGen to generate the sheets. I have 3 main directories for BD, DVDs, and TV Shows. Haven’t had time to tweak any more than that.

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I remember having some issues with getting all folder images to display, and I seem to recall one file that I created that I could never get to display (but never figured out why).  All my thumbnails are JPEGs.

My experience was that you will generally have to shutdown your SMP, delete the .wd_tv folders on the share, and restart SMP in order to definitely get all new thumbnails to show up.

I have the following shares (which are also directories on the file server):

(1) Movies  (2) TV

Movies has a folder thumbnail, named as 0.metathumb (that is a zero).  This name was necessary because it needs to sort before the movie metainfo files for Fellini’s 8½.  So folder.metathumb does not work in this situation.

TV also has a folder thumbnail, named as folder.metathumb, since there are no other .metathumb files at the toplevel of the TV directory.  TV show subdirectories must again often use names that sort first.  Actually what I have done in the season subdirectories is to have a single .metathumb file for the first episode and then have symlinks to that file for all the other episodes (to avoid wasting space).