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Hello,
this is pretty much my first time experimenting with this addon and there are some Things that boggle me.
First off, is there any way to move the Cache Directory? I'd like to store all those Pictures on my media Server rather then the playback machine. I'm using path-substitution in the advancedsettings.xml right now but that's somewhat of a brute-force method and I don't feel like this is how it's supposed to be done.
As a second thought, why couldn't AS just use the Directory where the Music/Artist is stored (this of course would only work for organized collections, but this is the same with movies and tvshows so...), maybe in a configurable subfolder (something like D:\MyMusic\Artists\Artist\__extrafanarts__ or similar).
Or is this already possible and I just can't find it?
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pkscout
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2015-04-14, 01:51
(This post was last modified: 2015-04-14, 01:52 by pkscout.)
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First off, is there any way to move the Cache Directory? I'd like to store all those Pictures on my media Server rather then the playback machine. I'm using path-substitution in the advancedsettings.xml right now but that's somewhat of a brute-force method and I don't feel like this is how it's supposed to be done.
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There isn't a way to move the Cache directory. There is (sort of) a way to move stuff out of the cache directories though. I wrote a companion addon called Artist Slideshow Helper that will move all the stuff from your cache to a directory of your choosing. It will put them in a directory of your choosing in [artist]/extrafanart/. You could run that manually periodically or set it up to run every night using something like CronXBMC. Then you can set AS to use both local and remote images. Once there is a single image for a given artist in your outside directory, the cache directory won't ever get used again for that artist.
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As a second thought, why couldn't AS just use the Directory where the Music/Artist is stored (this of course would only work for organized collections, but this is the same with movies and tvshows so...), maybe in a configurable subfolder (something like D:\MyMusic\Artists\Artist\__extrafanarts__ or similar).
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There is an option to set a local directory in one of the settings panes for AS. It's called "Local Artist Folder" and is in the SLIDESHOW pane of the settings. Using that in combination with AS Helper (above) should do basically what you want. Or at least what I think you want. If you haven't yet, you might check out the AS wiki page (in signature). It describes all the settings.
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Hi pkscout,
I would like to use the modded Confluence skin with Artist Slideshow you provide, but when I try to install the repo via zip from github kodi says something about wrong structure of this add-on.
Am I missing something here? Any help is highly appreciated!
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Yeah, the links are correct. If I unzip the ZIP and copy it to addons manually I can use your repo. Maybe something is wrong in my Ubuntu Installation?!?
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2015-04-19, 19:47
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Thankyou pkscout for a great add-on! I had a problem getting it working at all previously (posted in this thread but didn't get a reply), but now, having updated my skin, it's working...but I get some stuttering of audio during playback which seems to happen in relation to the artwork slideshow (if it doesn't find any artwork there is no stuttering).
It happens maybe one, two or three times per song, with the audio cutting out for just a half second or so - enough to be very annoying and spoiling the experience. I'm not doing anything else on the system at the same time (Visualisation is off, PVR isn't recording, library isn't updating).
Is this something that happens only on first use, when images are being downloaded? Should I look at storing the images on my NAS (where the music files are) instead of the Kodi box?
My system is:
Artist Slideshow 1.8.2
Skin is CCM Helix 3.0.15
OS is OpenElec 5.0.8 (which is Kodi 14.2)
ASUS Chromebox M031U Desktop (Celeron 2955U 1.4GHz, 4GB RAM, 16GB SSD)
My music files are stored on a local NAS (WD MyBooklive 3Tb)
Main TV: LibreELEC 7.0.1 / Kodi 16.1, with Xonfluence skin on Asus Chromebox (1.4GHz, 4Gb RAM, 64Gb SSD) + DVB-S and DVB-T with TVH.
Plus testing v17 nighlies on Macbook, and using Estuary skin.