(2015-12-04, 06:58)realrover Wrote: Hi there,

I'm using this great script with Cirrus Extended v3 skin. For some reason that skin doesn't have an option to turn off slideshow animation. How could I disable it?
Thanks.

(2015-12-04, 23:37)pkscout Wrote:

(2015-12-04, 06:58)realrover Wrote: Hi there,

I'm using this great script with Cirrus Extended v3 skin. For some reason that skin doesn't have an option to turn off slideshow animation. How could I disable it?
Thanks.

The actual animation decisions are completely skin controlled. If you want the option to turn off whatever animation they've decided to use, you're either going to have to ask them to add the option or modify the skin to disable it.

(2015-12-17, 10:13)Maaarv Wrote: Hi pkscout,

now that Kodi Jarvis supports the ArtistS tag do you consider to support it with Artist Slideshow aswell?
This way you could find the images for songs with multiple artists much easier as it is right now.
I think right now it depends on the title which has to have a "feat." somewhere or on a special seperator if your addon recognizes all artists of a song, is this correct?

(2015-12-17, 20:59)meowmoo Wrote: The moment i read this, beginner/Sammy deluxe was playing https://musicbrainz.org/recording/9e73bbf9-36f2-4c87-8488-0b95b3040e3f

AS first shows the beginner fanart and than samy delux and repeats. So for me it looks like its working fine.

Is there a way to randomize the pictures? Or need the skin to do this?

(2016-01-01, 20:23)Douganator Wrote: In Kodi, the Universal Artist Scraper downloads fanart for artists in the music library. Can or should the Artist Slideshow be using these images first before downloading its own fanart images? I can not find info on how to make this happen.

Quote:I keep getting issues with black screens with some common artists, artists that already have fanart downloaded by the Artist Scraper.

(2016-01-01, 22:05)pkscout Wrote:

(2016-01-01, 20:23)Douganator Wrote: In Kodi, the Universal Artist Scraper downloads fanart for artists in the music library. Can or should the Artist Slideshow be using these images first before downloading its own fanart images? I can not find info on how to make this happen.

Unfortunately, there doesn't appear to be any way to ask Kodi to provide the internal image for the playing artist. Depending on your skin and settings, you can kind of trick it. In the AS Slideshow settings check off the option that says "use transport background if no artists are found." Now if you have your skin set to display the artist image in the background when in full screen, that image will most likely show through if no images are found.

Quote:I keep getting issues with black screens with some common artists, artists that already have fanart downloaded by the Artist Scraper.

If you could enable Kodi debugging *and* the debug logging in AS and try some of those, I can see if I can figure out what's happening. For the tests to be useful, you need to go into your Kodi userdata folder and find addon_data/script.artistslideshow/ArtistInformation. Delete that folder so that AS will try and download the information again. If you don't do that, AS waits a couple of weeks before updating information.

(2016-01-01, 22:13)Douganator Wrote: I guess I kinda thought that Kodi uses some kind of database that links fanart to the artists and that AS would share this database. That way, loading of the fanart would be instant and AS could then download more images if available.
Thanks for your reply and I will have a bit more of a play.

(2016-01-01, 22:55)scott967 Wrote: The music database stores the URLs that are scraped in the artist table (strImage and strFanart). The art table stores the currently assigned artist thumb and fanart. This will either be a local file or URL link to file. It can be accessed by infolabel or JSON. Actual display of image is via the texture database which manages the thumbnail cache folder. But I think the way AS is designed is to supply a path to an image folder which skins can use via the "mulitimage" control. This is how "extrafanart" works as well.