[rew88]

I was wondering, if kodi creates a hash id for an artist in conjunction with slideshow artist
would it be possible to have a generator to decipher the hash id as i have quite a lot of artists
without images and would like to put some in the folder if kodi can create the hash id surely you can
decode it

cheers rew88

[meowmoo]

I'm picking this up and ask why kodi need to hash the artist name?

I'm also running into artist-slideshow issues because of it, if you listen to radio, as still works and download fanart, but store them in a folder named by the kodi hash, and since the hash is not in the music db, the AS-helper addon can't decode them and move the folders to my NAS, that's what the autor from AS says.

Anyway I edited AS to bypass the kodi hash and use the proper artist name.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9bSf6H...p=drivesdk
Just replace the default.py in the add-on folder.
Its a super super dirty hack, because I don't know Python at all!
(I have a artist named "...and you will" and needed to remove the ... From the name, I'm sure there is a better way to do this, if any one is reading my code)
But it works, I'm running it since a few month without any error, and i can copy the folders to my NAS once in a while, with drag and drop

[rew88]

@meowmoo I have tried your .py file and it works perfectly but the problem is I have over 6gigs of
artists and images in the hash format which I would never get again so a generator is what I would like
but if I was starting again well !! i would use you py file for sure I still dont get why you would encrypt
the folders

rew88