#Introduction Fanart Handler is a plugin for MediaPortal (MP). The plugin has two main purposes;

Search and download music fanart (scrape) from the htbackdrops site. for all artists stored in your MP music database.
for any artist currently being played (on the fly).
Push fanart that you store on your local harddrive to the current used MP skin.
push fanart for now played music
push fanart for selected music or movie
push random images from selected folders

#Scope The scope of this plugin is to:

scrape htbackdrops site for music fanart for all artists stored in your MP music database.
scrape htbackdrops site for music fanart for currently played artist.
push music fanart for now played music track (artist images)
push music fanart for browsed music artist in myMusic plugin
push music fanart for browsed/played music artist in myMusicPlaylist plugin
push music fanart for browsed music artist in GlobalSearch plugin
push music fanart for browsed music artist in Music Videos plugin
push music fanart for browsed music artist in mVidsplugin
push music fanart for browsed music artist in YouTube.FM plugin
push movie fanart for browsed video title in myVideo plugin
push scorecenter fanart for browsed category in myScoreCenter plugin
push cycling fanart from the following folders for use anywhere in a skin for

• thumbs\MovingPictures\Backdrops\FullSize
• thumbs\Fan Art\fanart\original
• thumbs\Skin Fanart\games
• thumbs\Skin Fanart\movies
• thumbs\Skin Fanart\music
• thumbs\Skin Fanart\pictures
• thumbs\Skin Fanart\plugins
• thumbs\Skin Fanart\tv

#Guides

• Installation Guide http://code.google.com/p/fanart-handler/wiki/InstallationGuide
• User Guide http://code.google.com/p/fanart-handler/wiki/UserGuide
• Skinners Guide http://code.google.com/p/fanart-handler/wiki/SkinnersGuide

#Requirements

• MediaPortal
• A skin that supports the Fanart Handler. NOTE! This plugin only supports JPG images.

#Additional for Skin Studios - https://github.com/andrewjswan/mediaportal.images.studios Genres - https://github.com/andrewjswan/mediaportal.images.genres

#Supported Skins Titan ( full support in ajs Theme for Titan - https://github.com/andrewjswan/mediaportal-skin-themes ) DWHD aMPed X-Factor Please let me know if your skin supports the Fanart Handler and I will add it to the list

#Installation (MPE1 FILE) Please see the installation guide (link).

#Forum A sub-forum is located on the MediaPortal website. For up-to-date information and community support please use this forum.

#Credits To the team behind the MP Moving Picture plugin. From who I have used some of the utils code and also got the idea for using two images for smoth image transitions.

#Properties

#fanarthandler.scraper.task
#fanarthandler.scraper.percent.completed
#fanarthandler.scraper.percent.sign

#fanarthandler.games.userdef.backdrop1.any
#fanarthandler.games.userdef.backdrop2.any

#fanarthandler.movie.userdef.backdrop1.any
#fanarthandler.movie.userdef.backdrop2.any
#fanarthandler.movie.scraper.backdrop1.any
#fanarthandler.movie.scraper.backdrop2.any
#fanarthandler.movie.backdrop1.selected
#fanarthandler.movie.backdrop2.selected
#fanarthandler.movie.studios.selected
#fanarthandler.movie.studios.selected.all
#fanarthandler.movie.studios.selected.verticalall
#fanarthandler.movie.genres.selected
#fanarthandler.movie.genres.selected.all
#fanarthandler.movie.genres.selected.verticalall
#fanarthandler.movie.awards.selected
#fanarthandler.movie.awards.selected.all
#fanarthandler.movie.awards.selected.verticalall

#fanarthandler.movingpicture.backdrop1.any
#fanarthandler.movingpicture.backdrop2.any

#fanarthandler.music.userdef.backdrop1.any
#fanarthandler.music.userdef.backdrop2.any
#fanarthandler.music.scraper.backdrop1.any
#fanarthandler.music.scraper.backdrop2.any
#fanarthandler.music.overlay.play
#fanarthandler.music.artisthumb.play
#fanarthandler.music.artistclearart.play
#fanarthandler.music.artistbanner.play
#fanarthandler.music.albumcd.play
#fanarthandler.music.backdrop1.play
#fanarthandler.music.backdrop2.play
#fanarthandler.music.backdrop1.selected
#fanarthandler.music.backdrop2.selected
#fanarthandler.music.artistclearart.selected
#fanarthandler.music.artistbanner.selected
#fanarthandler.music.genres.play
#fanarthandler.music.genres.play.all
#fanarthandler.music.genres.play.verticalall
#fanarthandler.music.genres.selected
#fanarthandler.music.genres.selected.all
#fanarthandler.music.genres.selected.verticalall

#fanarthandler.pictures.slideshow.translation
#fanarthandler.pictures.slideshow.enabled

#fanarthandler.picture.backdrop1.selected
#fanarthandler.picture.backdrop2.selected
#fanarthandler.picture.userdef.backdrop1.any
#fanarthandler.picture.userdef.backdrop2.any

#fanarthandler.scorecenter.backdrop1.selected
#fanarthandler.scorecenter.backdrop2.selected
#fanarthandler.scorecenter.userdef.backdrop1.any
#fanarthandler.scorecenter.userdef.backdrop2.any

#fanarthandler.tvseries.backdrop1.any
#fanarthandler.tvseries.backdrop2.any
#fanarthandler.tv.userdef.backdrop1.any
#fanarthandler.tv.userdef.backdrop2.any

#fanarthandler.plugins.userdef.backdrop1.any
#fanarthandler.plugins.userdef.backdrop2.any

Automatically exported from code.google.com/p/mediaportal-fanart-handler