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RE: [RELEASE] Artist Slideshow 1.3.0 addon (with skin and addon integration) - mhdebokx - 2017-01-22

Hi pkscout,

I've been using Artist Slideshow for a couple of years now. It is great to see all those artist pics.

Recently I've been upgrading van Kodi 16.1 to 17RC3. On 2 different machines I did a fresh Kodi install, both Win 10 env. and using Mimic as skin.
On both machines I play some music, go to full screen, press M, and in the music visualisations options I select "Artist Slideshow". After a small amount of time, I see the random artist pictures on the screen :-)

But... when I exit Kodi using the normal way, and do a restart from Kodi, the music vis is set back to Fanart. Grrrr
Now I must switch it back manyally each time I restart Kodi.

Do you have some suggestions where to look for fixing this problem?

RE: [RELEASE] Artist Slideshow 1.3.0 addon (with skin and addon integration) - style2k - 2017-01-22

i have emby installed as database . does it even work with emby plugin?

RE: [RELEASE] Artist Slideshow 1.3.0 addon (with skin and addon integration) - bitnumus - 2017-01-22

@pkskout I still can't get the plugin to show in the visualisations menu, so i can't enable it (its now disappeared)

I'm getting logs like this over and over for most artists, maybe its related?

http://pastebin.com/2BPNWbjf

In fact all it does it report this log every second, it creates the folder in /Artistinformation/ but doesn't put anything in there (the .nfo files), what am i missing? Also i'm seeing this:

After a fresh removal and install and restart this is how it runs:

http://pastebin.com/wmEbshhf

I decide to rule out the musicbrainz log by running picard and tagging an album, now its showing this in a loop:

15:41:27.973 T:140125685188352 DEBUG: [Artist Slideshow] starting with the following artists
15:41:27.973 T:140125685188352 DEBUG: [Artist Slideshow] [u'Chris Brown']
15:41:27.974 T:140125685188352 DEBUG: [Artist Slideshow] disable multi artist is set to false
15:41:27.974 T:140125685188352 DEBUG: [Artist Slideshow] left with
15:41:27.974 T:140125685188352 DEBUG: [Artist Slideshow] [u'Chris Brown']
15:41:27.976 T:140125685188352 DEBUG: [Artist Slideshow] checking for /storage/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/script.artistslideshow/ArtistInformation/42b84ed6/
15:41:27.976 T:140125685188352 DEBUG: [Artist Slideshow] /storage/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/script.artistslideshow/ArtistInformation/42b84ed6/ exists
15:41:27.976 T:140125685188352 DEBUG: [Artist Slideshow] Looking for a musicbrainz ID for artist Chris Brown
15:41:27.976 T:140125685188352 DEBUG: [Artist Slideshow] returning c234fa42-e6a6-443e-937e-2f4b073538a3

RE: [RELEASE] Artist Slideshow 1.3.0 addon (with skin and addon integration) - pkscout - 2017-01-22

(2017-01-22, 14:08)style2k Wrote: i have emby installed as database . does it even work with emby plugin?

I've never used Emby, so I don't know for sure. AS takes information provided by the Kodi player and finds artwork to show. If the Emby plugin is using it's own player engine or GUI, then, no AS won't work with it. If Emby is pushing stuff to the default Kodi player and your using a skin that has AS support, then when you go to the Music Visualization screen AS would work.

RE: [RELEASE] Artist Slideshow 1.3.0 addon (with skin and addon integration) - pkscout - 2017-01-22

(2017-01-22, 16:47)bitnumus Wrote: @pkskout I still can't get the plugin to show in the visualisations menu, so i can't enable it (its now disappeared)

I'm getting logs like this over and over for most artists, maybe its related?

http://pastebin.com/2BPNWbjf

In fact all it does it report this log every second, it creates the folder in /Artistinformation/ but doesn't put anything in there (the .nfo files), what am i missing? Also i'm seeing this:

After a fresh removal and install and restart this is how it runs:

http://pastebin.com/wmEbshhf

I decide to rule out the musicbrainz log by running picard and tagging an album, now its showing this in a loop:

15:41:27.973 T:140125685188352 DEBUG: [Artist Slideshow] starting with the following artists
15:41:27.973 T:140125685188352 DEBUG: [Artist Slideshow] [u'Chris Brown']
15:41:27.974 T:140125685188352 DEBUG: [Artist Slideshow] disable multi artist is set to false
15:41:27.974 T:140125685188352 DEBUG: [Artist Slideshow] left with
15:41:27.974 T:140125685188352 DEBUG: [Artist Slideshow] [u'Chris Brown']
15:41:27.976 T:140125685188352 DEBUG: [Artist Slideshow] checking for /storage/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/script.artistslideshow/ArtistInformation/42b84ed6/
15:41:27.976 T:140125685188352 DEBUG: [Artist Slideshow] /storage/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/script.artistslideshow/ArtistInformation/42b84ed6/ exists
15:41:27.976 T:140125685188352 DEBUG: [Artist Slideshow] Looking for a musicbrainz ID for artist Chris Brown
15:41:27.976 T:140125685188352 DEBUG: [Artist Slideshow] returning c234fa42-e6a6-443e-937e-2f4b073538a3

According to the second log you posted, AS is finding images and setting the folder properly. You can tell with these lines:
Code:
15:05:57.614 T:140125685188352   DEBUG: [Artist Slideshow] cached images found
15:05:57.614 T:140125685188352   DEBUG: [Artist Slideshow] ArtistSlideshow set to /storage/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/script.artistslideshow/ArtistSlideshow/42b84ed6/
15:05:57.614 T:140125685188352   DEBUG: [Artist Slideshow] ArtistSlideshow.ArtworkReady set to true

The log snippet you posted is normal when you have AS debugging enabled. That loop is part of the process that checks to see if the artist has changed (which would mean finding a new folder to show). The AS debugging info is *really* verbose, so once we're done troubleshooting, I'd definitely turn it off.

To your first comment. AS will not show in any kind of list anywhere (except in the list of Program Addons) unless the skin is doing something different than the way the default skin does it. AS is *NOT* a visualization. It is a script that sets some skin properties so that a skin can use that information to show images of the playing artist. Using my Estuary mod, I have the visualization set to NONE. Everything else is automatic if you go to the skin settings and under ARTWORK set the option for "show music visualization screen directly when playing a song" to on (it's the second option, right under "show media fanart as background." If you do that, when you hit play on an item in your music library the screen will change and you'll get images in the background.

Since you didn't post the full log, I can't tell if you're using my Estuary mod or something else. If you're not using my Estuary mod, you should check with the author of the skin you are using. From everything I can see AS is working fine.

RE: [RELEASE] Artist Slideshow 1.3.0 addon (with skin and addon integration) - style2k - 2017-01-22

yes i use the kodi 17 skin from your repository..
but its stil the same it cant download anything.. it plays some backgrounds fine but some artist wont play background even when in the map i connected as to there are images , i made a debug file but where is it located?

RE: [RELEASE] Artist Slideshow 1.3.0 addon (with skin and addon integration) - pkscout - 2017-01-22

(2017-01-22, 13:38)mhdebokx Wrote: Hi pkscout,

I've been using Artist Slideshow for a couple of years now. It is great to see all those artist pics.

Recently I've been upgrading van Kodi 16.1 to 17RC3. On 2 different machines I did a fresh Kodi install, both Win 10 env. and using Mimic as skin.
On both machines I play some music, go to full screen, press M, and in the music visualisations options I select "Artist Slideshow". After a small amount of time, I see the random artist pictures on the screen :-)

But... when I exit Kodi using the normal way, and do a restart from Kodi, the music vis is set back to Fanart. Grrrr
Now I must switch it back manyally each time I restart Kodi.

Do you have some suggestions where to look for fixing this problem?

This sounds like a skin issue. I'd suggest you contact the Mimic folks.

RE: [RELEASE] Artist Slideshow 1.3.0 addon (with skin and addon integration) - pkscout - 2017-01-22

(2017-01-22, 20:39)style2k Wrote: yes i use the kodi 17 skin from your repository..
but its stil the same it cant download anything.. it plays some backgrounds fine but some artist wont play background even when in the map i connected as to there are images , i made a debug file but where is it located?

Please see the link in my signature regarding how to post debug log files. If you follow those instructions you don't need to know where the log is.

RE: [RELEASE] Artist Slideshow 1.3.0 addon (with skin and addon integration) - style2k - 2017-01-22

https://paste.ubuntu.com/23847576/

RE: [RELEASE] Artist Slideshow 1.3.0 addon (with skin and addon integration) - pkscout - 2017-01-22

(2017-01-22, 21:04)style2k Wrote: https://paste.ubuntu.com/23847576/

I don't see anything unusual in the log. AS very often finds images, downloads them, and sets the skin property. Sometimes AS doesn't find any images. That happens. In your case just about every time AS can't find images you have an artist with a name like A Great Big World feat. Christina Aguilera. Kodi is treating that entire thing as the name of the artist, so AS is trying to find an artist with that exact name.

If you want Kodi to understand that A Great Big World feat. Christina Aguilera is by two artists, you have to separate the artists with ' / ' (that's space, a slash, and another space). So that artist needs to be A Great Big World / Christina Aguilera. Once you change that and rescan you're library, Kodi will realize that's two artists and tell AS that the song has two artists. AS will then download and show images for both artists.

RE: [RELEASE] Artist Slideshow 1.3.0 addon (with skin and addon integration) - style2k - 2017-01-22

yep that one is clear ,, but the first one david quetta is just verry clear of what it is and also there i see an empty screen,, i also loked in the log file and thought i saw that should be ok but it wasnt ,, wierd thing is when i skipped to next song suddenly a david guetta background apeared and changed over to next artist empty or not, and there are many artists that are verry clear in names but also no background.. while in the responding mao the fanart dir is full of images..so there must be something wrong with something..also when an responding dir has indeed n imags ,, can i just go to google and dl any pic and just copy em in that dir Huh??
cause for example there is a map A Great Big World feat. Christina Aguilera wich has the right structure .. when i put images i it it also doesnt pick them up.

RE: [RELEASE] Artist Slideshow 1.3.0 addon (with skin and addon integration) - pkscout - 2017-01-22

(2017-01-22, 22:14)style2k Wrote: yep that one is clear ,, but the first one david quetta is just verry clear of what it is and also there i see an empty screen,, i also loked in the log file and thought i saw that should be ok but it wasnt ,, wierd thing is when i skipped to next song suddenly a david guetta background apeared and changed over to next artist empty or not, and there are many artists that are verry clear in names but also no background.. while in the responding mao the fanart dir is full of images..so there must be something wrong with something..also when an responding dir has indeed n imags ,, can i just go to google and dl any pic and just copy em in that dir Huh??
cause for example there is a map A Great Big World feat. Christina Aguilera wich has the right structure .. when i put images i it it also doesnt pick them up.

David Guetta is only in the log file as David Guetta feat. Sam Martin. I looked through your log again. I can see multiple times when AS is setting an image folder, and it only does that if there are images in the directory to show. At this point all I can tell you is that according to the log everything is working as it should. If you aren't seeing any images, then you have another problem. There is nothing I can do to help you.

RE: [RELEASE] Artist Slideshow 1.3.0 addon (with skin and addon integration) - style2k - 2017-01-23

your right i see that ,, but i ave now after that adam wakefield thats just one artist and has empty background,, so if your theory is right i can make a folder adam wakefield with the directory structure extrafanart put images in there and as will see them ?? or am i wrong ?

RE: [RELEASE] Artist Slideshow 1.3.0 addon (with skin and addon integration) - checkport88 - 2017-01-23

Hi pkscout,

It seems like you have a great addon here, but I am out of ideas how to make this work. Could you have a quick look at the log and see what you think?

https://paste.ubuntu.com/23848515/

I'm getting the popup, "No images found for artist". Log says that no theaudiodbartistbio.nfo file found, and no musicbrainz.nfo file found.

I don't really know what would be causing this. I'm running this on OSMC so that could be an issue. I have "Artist Slideshow" enabled in the skin.

Is the Artist Slideshow helper required?

I mainly want to stream a radio station and have the fanart showing while a song is playing.

Any ideas, please let me know.

RE: [RELEASE] Artist Slideshow 1.3.0 addon (with skin and addon integration) - leetwanker - 2017-01-23

Why might I be getting a 'No images found for artist' for every song I play? All my mp3s are tagged with musicbrainz and I have another Kodi install where they work fine.

Ninja edit: I cleared a visualization setting, though I have no visualizers installed and it's stopped giving me the 'No images found for artist' notification. It's saying 'All artist images downloaded' but not displaying them.

I'm using pkscout's Estuary mod.

Edit: I made a debug log for you. I had to host it in a new github repo due to size, let me know if there's any issue viewing it. kodi.old.log