cover art

**Brandonrobertbrown2** · November 7th, 2009, 12:41 AM

Help! i just upgraded to windows 7 and reinstalled a clean copy of boxee. i linked my media sources, and it has scanned them all, the problem is about 60% of my TV shows are missing any form of cover art. in place i get gray pictures of a video camera.... i have tried removing the sources and re adding them, i have had boxee running for about 24 hours and it has not resolved it on its own, i have restarted several times, and there is no change. can someone please help me?

Thanks
~B~

**Akbutcherbill** · November 7th, 2009, 12:53 AM

I posted something similar to this on another thread. I am having the same problem, I moved all me media off my hard drive, and onto an external one, and when I went to put them back in my library, it wasn't pulling TV cover art for any show. Another member had the same problem as we did. As of now I haven't heard or figured any fix. If anything changes on your end let us know, and I will do the same as well.

**Brandonrobertbrown2** · November 7th, 2009, 12:57 AM

Yeah I will, lets hope we can fix this, my library looks like crap, its about 30 little grey pictures =( kinda depressing.

**lemongrass** · November 7th, 2009, 01:20 AM

Hi!

I am a new user and I found this too, in another post I found that it had something with how TVDB (?) the place Boxee scrapes the TV info from has changed a directory.

The solution in that post (but I can't find it again since I've looked at so many today) was to add this line to your `hosts' file in Windows:

208.76.155.58 images.thetvdb.com

(There is a forum post on TVDB about it as well:
http://forums.thetvdb.com/viewtopic....start=20#p7776

Hope that helps, it worked for me, all my TV art was there all of a sudden!

**DPK** · November 7th, 2009, 02:39 AM

http://forum.boxee.tv/showthread.php?p=65969

**judgeschambers** · November 7th, 2009, 07:05 AM

I thought it was odd how my 2009 Showtime shows are updating, but not the ABC, CBS, NBC shows.

I'll give this a whirl.

Here is the fix for ATV users. Past the same in the hosts file below:
208.76.155.58 images.thetvdb.com

Originally Posted by DPK

Checked in /etc/hosts? SSH and run:

Code:

nano /etc/hosts

Problem is, I can't seem to figure out how to make the pasted info Stick inside Nano. I've looked at the Nano how to site, but cant find a command that says how to do this...let alone no keystrokes or enter key do absolutely nothing. Any insight on Nano and Putty?

Update:

Ok, I figured out that the ^ equals the Control Key. So after I past the host file address hit ^X to exit. It asks if you want to save the file, but when you select Yes it says permission denied. What's the secret handshake here?

**DPK** · November 7th, 2009, 08:15 AM

Try the command:

Code:

sudo nano /etc/hosts

Should bypass permission problems.

**judgeschambers** · November 7th, 2009, 08:22 AM

Ok, that worked. (this is for ATV not Windows)

Paste the address in the host file just below the MESU.apple.com.
Key ^X to exit (remember ^ = Control Key) So Control+X
Asks you to save the file
key nothing just hit inside Enter key.
Prompts for a password. Which is: frontrow
That saves the file and exits Nano

I logged back in and the address was saved.

Thanks!

Now lets see if the artwork shows up.

Update:
2009 Season pics and meta data are now showing in ATV!

**Brandonrobertbrown2** · November 7th, 2009, 11:34 AM

Ok i want to try all this but i dont know how to get into the hosts file and manipulate this stuff.... would someone please give me a quick step by step on what to do??? (im running windows 7)

thanks a lot!

**DPK** · November 7th, 2009, 12:29 PM

Originally Posted by Brandonrobertbrown2

Ok i want to try all this but i dont know how to get into the hosts file and manipulate this stuff.... would someone please give me a quick step by step on what to do??? (im running windows 7)

Start Notepad
File --> Open
In the "File Name" box, paste this and hit the "Open" button:
Code:
```
%systemroot%\system32\drivers\etc\
```
This should take you to where your hosts file is stored on your particular Windows system.
Change the file type to "All Files"
Select and open the "hosts" file.
Scroll down to the very bottom of the file and on a new line paste the following:
Code:
```
208.76.155.58 images.thetvdb.com
```
File --> Save
File --> Exit
Restart Boxee