[phil65]

The best method for you to use(and I personally use this method) is to set the 'Path to music library' to an artwork path, ie for your music, Music\Artwork Then point skins and the script to this path. This will keep you music path clean of the fanarts, extrafanarts, clearlogos, artist thumbs and allow most skins(that use these files) to have proper access.

Album paths are fairly easy to figure out, Artist paths not so much...

cdart.png and folder.jpg(album cover) should always end up in the right place.

didn´t look at the code, but randomandlastitemsscript makes artistpath available to skinners for custom playlist albums. don´t know how he does that / how reliable it works, but perhaps someting you can incorporate?
thx for the add-on btw, great stuff.

The randomandlastitems script makes the assumption that the Artist path is the parent folder of the track folder. It will fail on my system on a few albums(my multi disc albums).
For Example:
for music in this form the method works.

Code:

/music/artist/album/track.mp3

The artist folder is the parent to the folder that holds the tracks.

The method I use for my music(to allow cdarts for each of my multi disc albums) the method fails:

Code:

/music/artist/album/cd1/track.mp3

The parent folder of the track folder is not the artist folder, but the primary album folder.

I use the method most skins use to get the clearLogos which is use a path supplied by the user, then add the artist name to it. This method also has its own faults(ie AC/DC and artist names with special characters (*,?, /, \....))

yep, i know, i´m implementing all the nice stuff your add-on offers
already thaught that the script only uses a workaround. too bad.
does this mean that downloading extra music media will never be dealt with in the same way as video media? (--> artwork downloader) if i get it right it would require a stricter organization of mp3´s from the user to make it possible at all. or will all this extra stuff end up in the database perhaps one day?