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so I just started setting up my new Boxee and am trying to point it to my local files. Why is it prompting me for a username/password when I select my PC (it's showing up as a samba share)? I made sure my media folders are shared with everyone and can't figure out why it wants a username/password.
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| # ¿ Jan 4, 2011 09:02 |
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| # ¿ May 20, 2013 17:35 |
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CrashCat posted:Probably just best to read through here: http://forums.boxee.tv/showthread.php?t=22107 hmmm, I am on Win7 and don't have a Guest account, only my admin account... I'll take a look.
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| # ¿ Jan 4, 2011 09:31 |
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is there any way to replicate Apple AirPlay's functionality on Boxee? An Apple devotee family member is considering Boxee over an apple tv but he really wants this feature so he can send things he's playing on his iPad straight to his Apple TV. http://www.tuaw.com/2010/11/23/hand...ake-a-magic-co/ thinking similar to Boxee's "Watch Later" bookmarking feature but that would work in the iPad browser or something...
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| # ¿ Jan 5, 2011 03:54 |
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StopMakingSense posted:I know people are tinkering with code to get it to work with XBMC, and others talking about how portable that will be to, say, a boxee app. Nothing concrete though. word, guess we'll have to wait and see. can anyone tell me if there's a way to take a thread here on SA, say the post youtube videos thread and turn it into an RSS feed that can be fed to Boxee and strip everything but the videos posted? also, what's the point of tagging movies as watched? I'm looking for a way to browse all unwatched movies but not seeing it... it'd be nice if I could configure the homepage to make unwatched movies or shows show up there rather than the random web content they have. MMD3 fucked around with this message at Jan 5, 2011 around 17:14 |
| # ¿ Jan 5, 2011 16:56 |
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so I finally got my shares indexing after opening up some ports and what not... so far so good, just a few things bugging me that I'm hoping they'll resolve in future releases. Here's my "irritation list" at the moment.
hoping most of these will be resolved in a future update, other than that it's an amazing device with a ton of potential. I've watched a few movies on it so far and it seems to play 1080p mkv files over wireless without any major issues other than maybe having to buffer once every 20 minutes or so, I'm assuming if I could run a network cable to it that'd be resolved.
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| # ¿ Jan 6, 2011 06:43 |
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Cornjob posted:Ive been using mine for 2 days now, and I am liking it more and more. any idea of how to remove a cover added by boxee to replace it with a folder.jpg? I've got the LoTR trilogy and two of the covers are in one style while a third is a different style because boxee went with the database art rather than the folder.jpg...
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| # ¿ Jan 7, 2011 00:30 |
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Cornjob posted:With the exception of screensavers, there is no customizing of the boxee box. I dont believe the boxee software can do this, either. yeah, it'd be nice if you could pick... somehow I ended up with two of them being this style: http://hwcdn.themoviedb.org/posters...ng-original.jpg which was the folder.jpg's I have and the last being this style: http://hwcdn.themoviedb.org/posters...ng-original.jpg minor annoyance but just wish they allowed for some better customizability.
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| # ¿ Jan 7, 2011 01:22 |
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n0n0 posted:Vudu is pretty awesome, and I like that it comes with a $5.99 credit. But for some reason Dolby Digital doesn't want to work -- just comes through as Stereo for me. the Vudu app looks gorgeous but... $6 for 1080p rentals is a lil steep innit?
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| # ¿ Jan 20, 2011 04:23 |
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ruh-roh, what does this mean for Boxee Box sales? http://xbmc.org/theuni/2011/01/20/y...2-ipad-iphone4/
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| # ¿ Jan 21, 2011 17:56 |
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VERTiG0 posted:Anybody else think the Youtube Leanback and VEVO apps are absolute loving garbage? Tremendously sluggish performance and the worst loving UI ever. totally agree... I still can't even log into my youtube account with the app. It'd at least be nice to be able to watch the channels I'm subscribed to on youtube.
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| # ¿ Jan 29, 2011 23:11 |
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I love mine so far... use it for 70% local content. It handles my MKV files amazingly well even over wireless. It still has a little polishing that needs to take place but I have faith that they'll iron things out. I'm also a huge fan of the Watch Later bookmarklet, use it all the time at work when I stumble on something I want to wait to watch when I get home. The Vudu app (while expensive) is also pretty stellar... we watched a movie last night in standard definition (wasn't an action flick so didn't care if it was in HD) and the standard definition stream looked better than DVD in my opinion... really great quality. I've also been watching the Daily Show through their app which looks/works great and I'm really liking the "Friend Feed" social element for killing time browsing what friends have posted to facebook or twitter. The one app that I think needs some serious improvement (but in no way is it Boxee's fault) is the Youtube app... it's pretty garbage as was previously mentioned. edit: oh, and the true test for me that it's passed with flying colors was the girlfriend test... she never used to try to figure out how to play videos from my PC and move them to the secondary display but she's using the boxee regularly and is totally comfortable with it. MMD3 fucked around with this message at Jan 31, 2011 around 19:21 |
| # ¿ Jan 31, 2011 19:16 |
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jonathan posted:I'm really getting sick of boxee scraping from IMDB. The metalocalypse entire first season is listed incorrectly on IMDB which means the entire episode description is wrong. If it scraped from thetvdb.com and themoviedb.org I could easily fix the error. I also really miss the fan art from xbmc. you should be able to choose where it scrapes from as well as choose to manually override any of the art in my opinion... I'm alright with my movies and tv shows at the moment (with the exception of the occasional one missing any info) but I'd much rather have a way to remove music/movies/shows from being displayed and a way to manually add artist art for all of the bands I have that don't have any entries in the database. for that matter I'm not even sure which database it's pulling artist art from.
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| # ¿ Feb 8, 2011 22:53 |
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DudeDeuce posted:Booyah. Netflix, finally. WOOH! here's hoping the naysayers shut up for a week or two so they can start focusing on other improvements.
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| # ¿ Feb 14, 2011 20:38 |
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Mike Hock posted:Trust me there is still a laundry list of things team Boxee need to fix going by Jira and my personal use of the box. I still have a ticket I opened for audio switching in MKVs taking forever and stuff like caching thumbnails and metadata to a local storage device instead of the dumbass way they do it now and NFO support are still hot items that people, myself included will bitch about on their forums. Netflix was the least of my concerns since I don't even have an account but I guess it is good for people who've been ardently waiting for it to finally get it. the caching thumbnails thing will be a pretty big deal for me... I don't care if they tell me I have to leave a small thumbdrive or SD card in the thing if it means it will decrease the thumbnail loadtimes drastically.
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| # ¿ Feb 14, 2011 23:33 |
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is there any easy way to use playlists yet? They really need to improve on the music player at some point... the ability to add files to a playlist on the fly would be pretty key at some point.
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| # ¿ Feb 25, 2011 00:29 |
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BorderPatrol posted:They don't make 8TB externals yet. or with RAID
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| # ¿ Feb 27, 2011 22:07 |
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ThinkFear posted:Send it back for a refund and order another right away? Amazon is great with returns. yeah, amazon is seriously the best retailer ever for returns.
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| # ¿ Feb 28, 2011 16:17 |
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VERTiG0 posted:And yes fix the goddamn Youtube app, it's so completely unusable it makes my balls hurt. quoting this for seriousness... worst app on there.
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| # ¿ May 5, 2011 23:40 |
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it's really pretty rad that this is all in Jira, super nice to be able to view release notes for future releases to see what we can expect coming down the pipe: http://jira.boxee.tv/secure/Release...0&version=11371
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| # ¿ May 18, 2011 19:32 |
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FCKGW posted:Ember Media Manager Revisited will. Has there been any recent word on if the Box will be supporting fanart.jpg's anytime soon?
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| # ¿ May 21, 2011 18:57 |
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Can anyone who's setup a Boxee for a Harmony remote help point me in the direction of a setup guide? I bought the Manta IR receiver from http://twistedmelon.com/ and have played with trying to get the Boxee to recognize commands but I think I'm doing something wrong with my activities/devices configuration. I'm just curious what a Boxee Activity should look like I guess. I'll cross-post this in the Logitech thread. Thanks for any help.
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| # ¿ May 26, 2011 19:35 |
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Calculon posted:There's a specific remote profile you need to use, I can't remember the name but if you browse the boxee forums, the guy that makes that receiver mentions which one it is. cool, will try over there, thanks.
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| # ¿ May 27, 2011 02:52 |
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so I've noticed for a while now how they added the option to watch movies you have locally on vudu and while it's annoying it hasn't bothered me too much so far, but the other day I went to watch a show that I had a few episodes from locally and I noticed some other episodes (that I don't have locally) showing up from xfinity... this is more irritating since it can be a little confusing with the episodes I already have. Is there some way to disable all of the online recommendations when I'm browsing local shows and movies? I really don't care what lovely ad-supported version Comcast has available for me when I'm browsing my local content.
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| # ¿ Jul 12, 2011 17:07 |
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Misanthrope posted:The beta version of 1.2 mentions nothing about audio sync issues being fixed. are you referring to mkv files? is this a well-known issue? i've noticed that in almost all of my mkv files I have to manually adjust the audio, assumed it was just an issue with my files.
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| # ¿ Jul 13, 2011 21:52 |
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Prefect Six posted:How well are sports supported on this thing? If my cable provider gives me ESPN 360 does it support that? I know it probably won't have regular ESPN content, but if it still has 360 that'd be nice. yes, you just need to pick up a USB IR receiver... I've got one from Twisted Melon and it works great with my Harmony One. whoops, didn't realize we were on a new page.
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| # ¿ Sep 1, 2011 17:12 |
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Prefect Six posted:So I guess you guys are pretty convinced this thing is superior to Roku/Apple TV/Google else you wouldn't be posting here right? Somebody should really put together a feature comparison chart or something to put in the OP.
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| # ¿ Sep 1, 2011 18:48 |
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I use Ember, it was pretty easy to set up for me and I've got pretty much all of my art updated now.
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| # ¿ Sep 13, 2011 17:43 |
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kri kri posted:Do you use full size posters? I saw a post on the boxee forums (ugh) about using lower quality art. Does this make a difference? I use the high-res I believe, haven't really noticed any issues... what do people say about it?
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| # ¿ Sep 13, 2011 21:00 |
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kri kri posted:Because I want total control over my cover art. Does boxee let you pick which cover you want? Also I assume that they still can't use tmdb, which has better posters over imdb. exactly... I was getting frustrated when the cover art from sequels or trilogies would be in different styles so I wanted LoTR or the Aliens trilogy or whatever to all use art I chose. Also if I have some obscure documentary or whatever that it can't find art for I wanted the ability to add my own. I'm pretty sure (could be mistaken, it's been a long time since I cleaned up my art) that so long as you add a folder.jpg it will use that in place of pulling in from imdb. It would definitely be a huge win if you could edit art in browser rather than having to manage it with ember or something.
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| # ¿ Sep 14, 2011 20:02 |
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Can anyone suggest a good way to perform a connection test for the box? I've been able to stream 720p and 1080p mkv rips just fine for a long time now with my configuration, maybe getting a handful of buffers throughout a movie but nothing terrible. Last night however I tried to watch a 720p rip and it was buffering literally every minute or two making the movie for all intents and purposes unwatchable. My configuration isn't ideal but it's worked in the past... Here's how I have it set up. Boxee is hardwired to my wireless router next to the tv downstairs which is where my cable modem is. Computer is upstairs connected via 802.11n, movies are on a drobo external drive connected to the computer via eSATA. I can only imagine the issue is with my wireless signal rather than the eSATA connection to the drobo, but I don't really have an easy way to confirm what speed my drobo is pulling from my computer. If it turned out the issue was actually with the eSATA connection then I could certainly copy movies over to an internal drive but I'd rather not have to do that every time I want to watch a movie. Thoughts?
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| # ¿ Oct 3, 2011 18:30 |
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mindphlux posted:this annoys me to no end about boxee : yeah, they seriously need to improve the music experience... I'm still pissed I can't create playlists on the fly or easily organize/search playlists.
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| # ¿ Oct 7, 2011 21:05 |
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tgijsola posted:I agree but I wouldn't hold your breath, they've said that the music playback feature should be seen as a nice little bonus and not anything that they're going to focus on over most any other feature. how could you consider music playback a "bonus feature" on a media pc?
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| # ¿ Oct 7, 2011 21:15 |
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kri kri posted:My thoughts exactly. Instead of wasting money on this they could have improved the box or tons of other things. Oh well. this is what I was trying to figure out... pretty sure I can get OTA HD w/ my tv w/out the need of an additional antenna. am I missing some functionality here? I'm so ready to cut cable though, need to do my homework on how reliable Century Link (Qwest) internet is in my area first though.
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| # ¿ Nov 16, 2011 23:14 |
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so it's been a while since I've checked this thread, but I have to ask, is the boxee firmware getting worse or something? did they push out a bad update? My network connectivity has been atrocious lately. My boxee box, cable modem, and router are downstairs all directly connected, my main desktop pc with my media on it is upstairs connected to my router wirelessly. I never seem to have any issues with connecting to the internet on my PC, 802.11n seems to be plenty fast. But lately my boxee box can't seem to connect to anything worth a poo poo. streaming videos from my PC buffer far too frequently but even if that could be chalked up to wireless issues the thing that is even more frustrating is that netflix, vudu, and all of my other apps basically just won't connect at all, or they'll start to connect and then timeout. My girlfriend used to love the boxee and now she's getting pissed off because it never works when she wants to watch netflix, thankfully I have a PS3 as well which runs netflix and vudu flawlessly but I'm really beginning to feel like my boxee box is a paperweight if I can't count on it to play basic media and run apps without choking. A few months ago I would recommend this thing emphatically but I definitely can't do that in it's current state. Are they poised to release an update or something?
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| # ¿ Dec 4, 2011 20:25 |
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I think I'll try to take a video showing how my user experience is at the moment. Basically even immediately after a reboot I still have major connection issues, movie and show graphics won't fully load, netflix, vudu, etc. won't load, I can maybe stream a movie for a few minutes before it freezes up or starts buffering like mad. I'm wondering if there aren't some network preferences in the settings that I'm overlooking or something but it's directly connected to the router so it's not like it's a wireless configuration issue, also it was working more or less fine a few months ago with nothing having changed since. really frustrating.
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| # ¿ Dec 5, 2011 23:44 |
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devmd01 posted:Those of you complaining about the boxee being slow, where is your media stored (local hdd, lovely nas, good nas, bitchin' fileserver), how is it accessed (wired/b/g/n), and how much do you have and is it all named correctly for scanning? My local media is stored on a drobo connected to my desktop pc via eSATA. My desktop PC is connected to my router via wireless-N which is connected directly to my boxee. 1080p and often 720p video buffers more regularly than I'd like. I don't think it's the drobo though as playing videos on my internal HDD seems to yield similar performance. It's not until I actually put the video on a thumb drive and plug it into the boxee directly that any buffering issues go away. All of my media has been renamed using ember and all cover-art is included. Boxee still takes forever to pull this in. I probably only have ~200 movies in my movie folders, broken into an HD and an SD folder and organized into folders by movie title within those. The problem however is that the performance isn't only bad for connecting to local content. It's also been awful for connecting to online content. It usually takes ~10-30 seconds for the preview images of the featured content on the homepage to load (if it even loads at all). Additionally pretty much all of the app logos take forever to load, and then when I go to run an app that won't even be reliable. I've tried using the netflix and vudu apps a few times in the past week and they take forever to load and then may or may not even load enough movie cover art for me to continue browsing. If the issues were purely with local content it'd be one thing, but the performance is pretty much universally bad at this point.
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| # ¿ Dec 7, 2011 17:52 |
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Moniker posted:I have a hard drive connected to the Boxee via USB and then shared on my network. I drag all of the files I download/rip to that, then play from the connected USB drive. Works perfectly. I mean I can certainly try that, and I'm sure it'll work, but... I definitely wouldn't have purchased this device if I thought the workflow would have to be something janky where I had to go out and buy a separate external hdd to serve as a temporary holding area for media I actually wanted to watch on the boxee. My drobo houses all of my movies, music, photos, etc. for the purpose of having a backup solution and my PC is able to pull from it with lightning speed (eSATA is plenty fast for streaming). Why should I have to copy all of my files to a holding area when I want to actually watch something?
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| # ¿ Dec 7, 2011 18:20 |
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kri kri posted:I would say its probably the same speed as when I purchased it. "Snappy" is not the term I would use for the experience though... they actually replied to me on their facebook account which was nice... will see if 1.5 actually fixes anything, if not I'm thinking I'll be calling D-Link to ask if they'll offer an exchange. Glad to know not everyone is having this much trouble at least, when the thing was responsive I loved it. https://www.facebook.com/BoxeeBoxBy...146510398785269
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| # ¿ Dec 7, 2011 23:45 |
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been a while since I've followed this thread so forgive me if this is a common question. Are people still having issues with cover art/album art/app icons caching? The last release dramatically improved streaming for me, the buffering issues seem to have gotten a lot better but my movie art still loads incredibly slowly as I'm browsing. I only have ~350 movies but it still seems to be choking. Is there a setting I should be changing? should I clear my cache and let it rebuild or something? I really wish they'd enable thumb-drive caching and be done with it, it's probably my single biggest complaint about the boxee UI now.
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| # ¿ Feb 11, 2012 21:46 |
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| # ¿ May 20, 2013 17:35 |
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FreakyZoid posted:Bah, Boxee just lost the artwork to all of my shows, despite them all still being in the same local directories that they have always been in. Time for the "rename folders and scan" shuffle. does this honestly do the trick for cover-art caching?
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| # ¿ Feb 13, 2012 18:54 |
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