TV shows with missing artwork

**LTParis** · February 3rd, 2010, 09:51 AM

I have an issue with a TV show The Fresh Beat Band (yes I have 2 kids) and while it's pulling up the episode list there is no artwork being displayed for the folder.

I am not sure if IMDB is missing the artwork but is there a way for boxee to override a folder image or put artwork in when it's missing?

**cogadh** · February 3rd, 2010, 10:25 AM

Currently, if IMDB doesn't have it, then there is no way for Boxee to have it. I just checked and IMDB does not have any artwork for that show:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1447723/

TomyLo · February 6th, 2010, 02:48 PM

Hey guys... check out the screenshot.

The artwork covers are not displaying... but they are showing TheTVDB.com

http://thetvdb.com/?tab=series&id=71638&lid=7
http://thetvdb.com/?tab=series&id=83231&lid=7

Here's another one.

Here are the file names;

The.Love.Of.Money.S01E01
The.Love.Of.Money.S01E02
The.Love.Of.Money.S01E03

http://thetvdb.com/?tab=series&id=116451&lid=7

And yet it never displays in Boxee?

**LTParis** · February 6th, 2010, 02:52 PM

If I am not mistaken Boxee does not look at thetvdb anymore, only IMDB.

**C-Quel** · February 6th, 2010, 03:05 PM

iirc you are correct imdb for now with the mention of tv.com on the cards.

**ccjensen** · February 7th, 2010, 04:24 AM

One thing I am still confused by, is when I did the initial scrape of my locally held movies and tv shows, there was no indication in the ui wether the scraping was done or not. So I used a network monitoring application to see what connections boxee was making (and if it was making any) with the assumption that once it was no longer using the network, it had completed its job. The weird thing is, it was constantly connecting to themoviedb and thetvdb, so it must still be retrieving some information!
Anyone got any suggestions?

**darcilicious** · February 7th, 2010, 11:00 AM

Originally Posted by cogadh

Currently, if IMDB doesn't have it, then there is no way for Boxee to have it.

This is not quite correct. I reported missing artwork for The Middleman and while imdb.com still doesn't have it, the artwork for it is now showing up in Boxee -- so the moral of the story: report these sorts of issues

http://support.boxee.tv/forums/117556/entries/90018

I'm assuming that Boxee has their own version of the database at this point and is actively maintaining it.

**C-Quel** · February 7th, 2010, 11:06 AM

Originally Posted by darcilicious

This is not quite correct. I reported missing artwork for The Middleman and while imdb.com still doesn't have it, the artwork for it is now showing up in Boxee -- so the moral of the story: report these sorts of issues

http://support.boxee.tv/forums/117556/entries/90018

I'm assuming that Boxee has their own version of the database at this point and is actively maintaining it.

May still have some of the code we dropped into XBMC it uses the imdbid and checks for alternative thumbs on tvdb etc then... obviously with the 'Boxee' twist on it. :P