This issue got personal now.
Here’s what I did…
I got the info for “The Godfather: Part II” movie (with the ugly French thumbnail, of course).
Then, I took a look at the movie’s hidden .xml file with the notepad (I downloaded a free XML editor and it didn’t help).
So, I got all those confusing and almost unreadable words, letters, characters and symbols all together.
I selected the whole line that included the .jpg letters between the first “thumbnail” word and the “backdrop” one.
I copied that line and pasted it to the JDownloader so it can do the dirty work by ignoring the useless symbols and letters and focus on the images’ urls.
It automatically downloaded 19 thumbnails with slightly different sizes (almost similar with each other) but also with different languages and designs.
I found out that most of them were in English, some of them were in German and Italian, a couple of French ones and one for Spanish an Portuguese, respectively.
The first thumbnail in that .xml file is the French one I was talking about, then comes the the German, English and so on…
My questions remains unanswered: why is the French one on the first place or the German one on the second position? why is the English one in the third place, anyway? (my Hub is set on English).
So, I copied the long weird name of the English cover and replaced the French one that was on the first place inside the .xml file.
Then, I changed the file format of the “good” .jpg file to a .metathumb file and renamed it with the same movie file’s name.
After that, I deleted all the hidden files and folders that may have something to do with “thumbnailing” inside the whole Hub.
Finally, I fully turned off the Hub by pressing the power button for 3 or 4 seconds and turned it on again.
It did the compiling database thing (or something like that… I can’t remember) by itself… et voilà!
The Hub generated 11 new proprietary “thumbnail files” (according to the cover art I wanted) with totally diferent sizes.
OK… this is not a real solution or something that nobody has tried before… I guess (but it works).
Why do I have to do that from now on, dammit? (well, actually, when I don’t like the chosen cover art becasue of its language, of course).
I want the Hub to automatically select the correct cover art… is that so wrong?
Am I asking too much, WD?
BTW, I contacted the support area regarding this “terrible” issue about 3 days ago and I had no reply.
Kudos for me!