HOW TO: Add Stark like covers

[settingsun]

I requested this in 'feature requests' :D it looks great but having some probs. you say 'Open the StarkCovers.bat batch file that I included and alter the paths to your files'

I open the bat file but it just gives me a cmd prompt with a press enter to run, how do i 'alter the paths to my files'

probably something simple i am missing so apologies
many thanks

[jdubbs23]

If you double click a .bat file it will just run the script inside. To edit .bat files you should right click and then open the .bat file in notepad or some other text editor.

[settingsun]

Hi, thanks for the response, I opened the bat in notepad but am having no luck, following the examples has not worked for me I am trying to point it towards -
E:\HD Film\HD Film
E:\HD Film\360 Compatible
E:\HD Film\m-HD Film
H:\Film\Films
H:\Film\Kids Films

but am unsure as to what the bat should look like when completed with my data
any help would be really really appreciated.
many thanks

[<><]

Hi, thanks for the response, I opened the bat in notepad but am having no luck, following the examples has not worked for me I am trying to point it towards -
E:\HD Film\HD Film
E:\HD Film\360 Compatible
E:\HD Film\m-HD Film
H:\Film\Films
H:\Film\Kids Films

but am unsure as to what the bat should look like when completed with my data
any help would be really really appreciated.
many thanks

Since it recursively searches, i believe your bat file should look like

StarkCovers.exe "E:\HD Film" C:\Users\Tyson\Pictures\Overlay.png
StarkCovers.exe "H:\Film" C:\Users\Tyson\Pictures\Overlay.png

Make sure to change the C:\Users path to your user path of where the Overlay.png is located

Take Care

[settingsun]

Hi, thanks for the response, I opened the bat in notepad but am having no luck, following the examples has not worked for me I am trying to point it towards -
E:\HD Film\HD Film
E:\HD Film\360 Compatible
E:\HD Film\m-HD Film
H:\Film\Films
H:\Film\Kids Films

but am unsure as to what the bat should look like when completed with my data
any help would be really really appreciated.
many thanks

Since it recursively searches, i believe your bat file should look like

StarkCovers.exe "E:\HD Film" C:\Users\Tyson\Pictures\Overlay.png
StarkCovers.exe "H:\Film" C:\Users\Tyson\Pictures\Overlay.png

Make sure to change the C:\Users path to your user path of where the Overlay.png is located

Take Care

thanks for the help but it did not work, any other suggestions

[heula]

I followed your instruction but it does nothing (yet)

I have placed the overlay.png, Starkcovers.exe and bat in this folder - C:\Program Files\StarkCovers
I have several folders with folder.jpg. Can I place them all in one bat file like under?
When I run the bat I only see press any key to continue and after doing that nothing happens.

@echo off
REM Just a few examples of what works

REM StarkCovers.exe "\\HOME-SERVER\Series" C:\Program Files\StarkCovers\Overlay.png
REM StarkCovers.exe "\\HOME-SERVER\Films Alex" C:\Program Files\StarkCovers\Overlay.png

pause

Do I need these in the bat as well?
REM StarkCovers.exe \\Antec_HTPC\Movies\Kids -revertjpg
REM StarkCovers.exe "\\Antec_HTPC\Movies\Chick Flicks" -delpngbkp
REM StarkCovers.exe M:\Movies\Exercise -revertpng

Maybe you can help me out here.
Thanks

[tyborg]

Copy and paste the contents of the batch file that you are using. Did you change the "C:\Users\Tyson\Pictures\Overlay.png" path to your path for an overlay image? Is the batch file in the same folder as the StarkCovers.exe? When you say it doesn't work what is happening?

My apologies, my examples may have been confusing to people not familiar with batch files and I should have explained. You need to remove the REM before a line for it to run. REM stands for remarks and these lines are not executed. Also make sure that if your path has a space in it anywhere you put quotation marks around the path. That should give better results.

Do I need these in the bat as well?
REM StarkCovers.exe \\Antec_HTPC\Movies\Kids -revertjpg
REM StarkCovers.exe "\\Antec_HTPC\Movies\Chick Flicks" -delpngbkp
REM StarkCovers.exe M:\Movies\Exercise -revertpng

You don't need these lines. Your batch file can be a single line if thats all you need. the "@echo off" command just keeps your console window a lot cleaner so you can see what is going on. I would leave it, also the pause line allows you to go back through the console window and read it. If you are going to set this up as a scheduled task you should remove that line. If you want to see the results of the console window in a text file just add " > log.txt" to the end of your line like this

StarkCovers.exe \\Server\Movies "C:\Program Files\StarkCovers\Overlay.png" > log.txt

a log.txt file with the output will be created in the same directory as your batch file was run in.

[heula]

Got it working now.

This is how my batch looks like,

@echo off

StarkCovers.exe "\\HOME-SERVER\Series" Overlay.png
StarkCovers.exe "\\HOME-SERVER\Films Alex" Overlay.png
StarkCovers.exe "\\HOME-SERVER\Kinderfilms" Overlay.png

pause

Thanks.

[settingsun]

many thanks got it working and it looks great!! :D

[tyborg]

glad to hear you guys got it working.