Adding Custom Thumbnails or Editing Existing Thumbnails in Xbox Media Center / XBMC

When allowing album art covers to be downloaded for your audio/video collection in xbox media center you may notice that some of the covers are incorrect. You may have to manually fix some of them and here’s how:

My tutorial specifically applies to video collection, xbmc applies thumbnails to video files in the following order:

1) Cached Thumbnail Files

Thumbnails are cached to UserData\Thumbnails\Video using the CRC of the path of the file or folder.

2) User-Defined Thumbnail Files

For files: XBMC checks for.tbn and uses that if it exists.The thumbnail is cached the first time it is read.

For movies, movie.tbn will override any other thumb.

For folders: XBMC first checks for.tbn in the same directory as the folder is in. If no.tbn exists XBMC then checks for folder.jpg inside the movie-folder. In either case the first found thumb of those is cached.

Please comment if you have any questions.

Thanks,

Digital Hoarder