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media

ES-DE is the most rigid of all Front Ends as far as using media. For example, All media has to be in one folder, so you cannot split it and increase performance by putting box art on internal storage and videos on external storage.

downloaded_media

The default location is /storage/emulated/0/ES-DE/downloaded_media/ or /storage/ABCD-1234/emulated/0/ES-DE/downloaded_media/

system name

Beneath the downloaded_media you must have lower case system names such as

1. fbneo
2. gamegear
3. mame
4. nes

media types

Beneath the system name subfolder media types such as

1. covers
2. marquees
3. miximages
4. screenshots
5. videos

names subfolders

Benearch this we cannot have flat media file names matching title keys. Instead we need to incldue subpaths to match. For example 0Best\a\10yard.png.

Total Example path

\storage\emulated\0\ES-DE\downloaded_media\fbneo\covers\0Best\a\10yard.png

es_settings.xml

Inside of \ES-DE\settings\es_settings.xml we can change the downloaded_media folder location by setting the MediaDirectory value. <string name="MediaDirectory" value="" /> <string name="MediaDirectory" value="/storage/emulated/0/ES-DE/downloaded_media" /> <string name="MediaDirectory" value="/storage/ABCD-1234/ES-DE/downloaded_media" />
"" means \storage\emulated\0\ES-DE\downloaded_media\

Path Ideas

<string name="MediaDirectory" value="/storage/emulated/0/ES-DE/downloaded_media" /> <string name="MediaDirectory" value="/storage/emulated/0/ROMs/m" />
ROMs/m/ would be more likely to support relativate paths but really not sure if any advantage with relative paths.