Remove Fan Art?

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I hate the way the fan art obscures the movie description.  Is there any way to just have a black background, no fan art?

I’ve tried using Thumbgen but it’s really overkill for me.  I’m happy with the stock covers and descriptions,  I just hate it when the fan art pops up (twice!) and makes it difficult to read anything in the forground.

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You should be able to edit the .xml files to remove the backdrop info and delete the existing .backdrop directories–though I haven’t personally tried this.  How easy this is for you to do will depend on your technical expertise, where the above info is stored, and how many movies/shows we are talking about.  Editing many .xml files would be a big pain, so having a simple script to remove the backdrop data would be desirable.  Not a big deal–if you know how to program.

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I remove the backdrops all the time and it only takes a few seconds for hundreds of files :smiley:

There’s plenty of programs that will do it … but my fav / simplest one is " textrep"

http://www.download25.com/install/free-text-blocks-replacer.html

a “2 step” procedure (follow the pics below exactly … change the path to your movies of course.)

click “Start” for Step1 … then “Start” again for Step 2 to complete the procedure.

P.S. Sure, you can theme edit to remove backdrops … but removing the backdrop tags from the xml’s has the benefit of faster navigation speed .