Jason Carr Posted April 28, 2017 Author Share Posted April 28, 2017 9 hours ago, teeedubb said: Just a thought... Couldn't duplication of images be minimised by limiting certain artwork types to only one image? Eg covers, media,title, game over, clear logo etc. If a user wants to change the artwork of a particular category all available artwork for that category is shown, and the user can select which one they want? (Like what Kodi does). Multiple art for some catergories like fanart etc has benefit from multiple image, but I don't see much point in, for example, having multiple covers Yes, there is a lot that can be done there going forward. That's not a focus for this upcoming release, but agreed. Right now we download as much as possible really. In the future we can look at providing more options and whittling it down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Carr Posted April 28, 2017 Author Share Posted April 28, 2017 Alright guys, beta 2 is out with these changes: - Improvement: The Clean Up Images option from the Tools menu in LaunchBox has been modified to also remove duplicate images - Improvement: the Clean Up Images option from the Tools menu in LaunchBox has been tweaked to add a Cancel button and use all cores on your system in order to vastly improve performance Keep in mind that going forward, as long as you haven't unchecked the background updates option, the new beta version should be downloaded in the background and you won't be prompted to update until the download has completed (in case you're wondering why you're not seeing an update notification). You should still restart LaunchBox in order for it to look for and start the download in the background. Also, please make a backup of your image folders before running the updated Clean Up Images process, just in case we run into a nasty bug or something. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maddoc1007 Posted April 28, 2017 Share Posted April 28, 2017 @Jason Carr Gave the new beta a spin no problems thus far KUDOS. How does the transitions:TransitionPresenter TransitionSelector="{Binding ImageVideoTransitionSelector}" Content="{Binding ImageVideoView}" (the small non background video) stretch the images when using it in the games views is it uniform to fill? if so could you set it to Fill as when you download screenshots for arcade they are all different sizes and don't look right by not stretching to their container as have looked all over the xaml and don't see a setting to allow per theme to overwrite this. Screenshot of new view i'm working on for my theme HT for PC which has either small video or screenshots in the arcade machine window as well as marquee that work and change per game and fading wheel. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ALIE Posted April 29, 2017 Share Posted April 29, 2017 @Jason Carr might just me being a total dumb dumb but this message confused me. when cleaning up images it says. "found (example number) non duplicate images currently in use by your game"s. being that its clean up shouldn't it say how many are duplicates instead of how many isnt ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emko Posted April 29, 2017 Share Posted April 29, 2017 after its done that it starts showing how many images are deleted 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ALIE Posted April 29, 2017 Share Posted April 29, 2017 Yah ok. its still going there is a lot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil9000 Posted April 29, 2017 Share Posted April 29, 2017 Well i just used the new clean up images feature and it freed up 10GB of space on my drive!! Great work as always @Jason Carr 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Expello Posted April 29, 2017 Share Posted April 29, 2017 Hi, can you add an "unattended installation" feature? The DirectX UAC query is a bit annoying. ;-) I do not want to permanently disable UAC. Thanks a lot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaysArcade Posted April 29, 2017 Share Posted April 29, 2017 (edited) 11 hours ago, neil9000 said: Well i just used the new clean up images feature and it freed up 10GB of space on my drive!! Great work as always @Jason Carr Me too, about 11 gigs for me. Taking a quick peek, I still see a few duplicate images in my arcade clear logos folder, but obviously something was cleaned out. Great work Jason! Below, are the before and after sizes of my images folder. Edited April 29, 2017 by JaysArcade incorrect spelling 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreenGriffon Posted April 29, 2017 Share Posted April 29, 2017 If you think the HD space savings are impressive, Just think how much this is also saving Jason and others in bandwidth that was being wasted on each user downloading thousands of duplicate images. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AFaustini Posted April 29, 2017 Share Posted April 29, 2017 (edited) @Jason Carr sorry for the noob question, but how can i change the background image like you do in 7:34 in the latest dev stream? Edited April 30, 2017 by AFaustini Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maddoc1007 Posted April 30, 2017 Share Posted April 30, 2017 @Jason Carr Watched your news on YouTube glad your going to be working on the Games Database. When you integrate the arcade systems will you make sure that LaunchBox scrape as will be set to the way the integration works as off now i've noticed that when certain systems are set to scrape as themselves ie Sega System 16/32 etc they dont pull down certain images such as Marquees unless they are set to scrape as Arcade and get rid of the options to scrape as anyhting but to what you set them to scrape as? @Vlansix Thrilled to hear your back working with LaunchBox KUDOS welcome back. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kriven Posted April 30, 2017 Share Posted April 30, 2017 This update seems to have broken my Big Box's ability to shuffle its background music in a really weird way... The first song is random, but after that it keeps leaping to the exact same song and playing the rest of that song's album. I took that album out of the "Background" folder, and Big Box started playing another album by that artist (again starting with a song in the middle of the album). I've checked file names, folder name, all of the playlists... Big Box isn't loading a playlist file, I don't think, because it isn't playing the songs in the order that they appear on a playlist. It's just playing the same artist as #2 and then going right on through all of their stuff. I can't figure it out, and it wasn't happening before the update. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiamiLamiW Posted April 30, 2017 Share Posted April 30, 2017 Jason thanks for the great beta release! One thing with Platform Category Clear Logos Images looks like we can only set them under the Root Launchbox Images\Platform Categories\Platform\Clear Logos folder. Can we have the option to have Platform Category Clear Logos folder per theme just as we can set Platform Clear logos per theme? Thanks! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norfair Posted April 30, 2017 Share Posted April 30, 2017 (edited) Hello @Jason Carr Did you also do some bug fixing for the "Download Metadata and Images..."? I've done some tests and I think this problem is gone: Can someone else confirm this? That the download doesn't ignore existing images in the LB Games DB. Edited April 30, 2017 by Norfair Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Napalm2016 Posted April 30, 2017 Share Posted April 30, 2017 On the latest beta 7.10 beta 2 when I cleanup images I get this error but the process is still running Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ALIE Posted April 30, 2017 Share Posted April 30, 2017 Hey @Jason Carr i decided to start adding alternative region names. starting with "Disney's Aladdin in Nasira's Revenge" i have added 4 regional names, (by the way Norway isnt in the regions option if you can add it.) but LB isnt combining them when i hit consolidate?. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Expello Posted April 30, 2017 Share Posted April 30, 2017 8 hours ago, Napalm2016 said: On the latest beta 7.10 beta 2 when I cleanup images I get this error but the process is still running A IOException is thrown when an I/O error, such as failing to read from or write to a file, occurs. Is the problem still existent? If it happens only once, so I think you can ignore it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Napalm2016 Posted April 30, 2017 Share Posted April 30, 2017 Yes unfortunately it is still like this but recently I had a problem with my hard drive where the hard drive kept disappearing think I've got it sorted now though but may some files got corrupted in the process thanks for the infoSent from my SM-G930F using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rincewind Posted April 30, 2017 Share Posted April 30, 2017 Sounds like a drive about to fail I would make sure you grab a backup soon 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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