[pkscout]

This is definitely NOT my Confluence mod. That said, it looks like the OSD for music got brought up at some point. See if you can find the key that removes it.

And one other issue, when playing some artists it won't show pics,. I tried to run Musicbranz again for those cd's and they all saved with gold cd icon.
Last attempt was with Eminem so not a very unknown artist on fanart.tv

I'd need to see a debug log. Make sure to enable debug logging both in Kodi *and* in the AS settings.

[PantsOnFire]

My rPi2 B+ running OSMC (Isengard 15.2), Eminence 1.2.5 + ArtistSlideshow 2.0 is inconsistent at fetching music fanart.

I'm trying to work out the root cause.

Using my PC (Kodi Jarvis) (also ArtistSlideshow 2.0), it fetches the art successfully but I'm quite often left with a black screen on the Pi. Anyone else have this problem?

Note: this is happening even for very popular artists where there is guaranteed artwork available (tested Eminem, Van Halen, Metallica).

Eminence 1.2.5 is really efficient on my Pi2, runs quickly. So I don't really think that memory of CPU is the culprit. (I dropped it down to 720p just to see if any change); but no different.


---- I've just noticed one thing which may be significant; when I go to Add-On Settings for ArtistSlideshow, all of the menus on the left (Slideshow, Images, Album Info etc.) are greyed out and not selectable. Perhaps the addon is not compatible with Isengard15.2 and/or Eminence 1.2.5?

Can anyone help?

[PantsOnFire]

My rPi2 B+ running OSMC (Isengard 15.2), Eminence 1.2.5 + ArtistSlideshow 2.0 is inconsistent at fetching music fanart.

I'm trying to work out the root cause.

Using my PC (Kodi Jarvis) (also ArtistSlideshow 2.0), it fetches the art successfully but I'm quite often left with a black screen on the Pi. Anyone else have this problem?

Note: this is happening even for very popular artists where there is guaranteed artwork available (tested Eminem, Van Halen, Metallica).

Eminence 1.2.5 is really efficient on my Pi2, runs quickly. So I don't really think that memory of CPU is the culprit. (I dropped it down to 720p just to see if any change); but no different.


---- I've just noticed one thing which may be significant; when I go to Add-On Settings for ArtistSlideshow, all of the menus on the left (Slideshow, Images, Album Info etc.) are greyed out and not selectable. Perhaps the addon is not compatible with Isengard15.2 and/or Eminence 1.2.5?

Can anyone help?

[pkscout]

My rPi2 B+ running OSMC (Isengard 15.2), Eminence 1.2.5 + ArtistSlideshow 2.0 is inconsistent at fetching music fanart.

I'm trying to work out the root cause.

Using my PC (Kodi Jarvis) (also ArtistSlideshow 2.0), it fetches the art successfully but I'm quite often left with a black screen on the Pi. Anyone else have this problem?

Note: this is happening even for very popular artists where there is guaranteed artwork available (tested Eminem, Van Halen, Metallica).

Eminence 1.2.5 is really efficient on my Pi2, runs quickly. So I don't really think that memory of CPU is the culprit. (I dropped it down to 720p just to see if any change); but no different.


---- I've just noticed one thing which may be significant; when I go to Add-On Settings for ArtistSlideshow, all of the menus on the left (Slideshow, Images, Album Info etc.) are greyed out and not selectable. Perhaps the addon is not compatible with Isengard15.2 and/or Eminence 1.2.5?

Can anyone help?

If AS is downloading the art, then the highest likelihood is that it's a skin issue. If you post a debug log (make sure both Kodi and AS debugging are on), I can check that. AS should work fine with the 15.x branch, and I only use standard Kodi XML files to create the settings area. So if the menus aren't working, that again points towards the skin.

[Dutchy_79]

This is definitely NOT my Confluence mod. That said, it looks like the OSD for music got brought up at some point. See if you can find the key that removes it.

And one other issue, when playing some artists it won't show pics,. I tried to run Musicbranz again for those cd's and they all saved with gold cd icon.
Last attempt was with Eminem so not a very unknown artist on fanart.tv

I'd need to see a debug log. Make sure to enable debug logging both in Kodi *and* in the AS settings.

Uh huh i know its not your theme,

so i started using "Amber"

because i couldnt find you theme anymore.
I'll work on the logs soon, been quite busy with other things

[halfer]

At one point the script worked, and downloaded the images, which I then moved to a seperate folder using the Helper addon. Now any artist I choose, I get a notification saying "Nothing downloaded". Artists are correctly matched with the scraper addons.
Kodi 16.1

Here's the log for that specific part of the process. I've changed the API key since the log was written. Thanks in advance!

Code:

20:14:25 T:140521185081088   DEBUG: [Artist Slideshow] downloading images
20:14:25 T:140521185081088   DEBUG: [Artist Slideshow] checking fanarttv for images
20:14:25 T:140523080972608   DEBUG: ------ Window Init (DialogKaiToast.xml) ------
20:14:25 T:140521185081088   DEBUG: [Artist Slideshow] checking for /home/test/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/script.artistslideshow/ArtistInformation/213526d2/fanarttvartistimages.nfo
20:14:25 T:140521185081088   DEBUG: [Artist Slideshow] /home/test/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/script.artistslideshow/ArtistInformation/213526d2/fanarttvartistimages.nfo does not exist
20:14:25 T:140521185081088   DEBUG: [Artist Slideshow] no fanarttv cachetime file found, creating it
20:14:25 T:140521185081088   DEBUG: [Artist Slideshow] [u'successfuly wrote data to /home/test/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/script.artistslideshow/ArtistInformation/213526d2/fanarttvcachetime.nfo']
20:14:25 T:140521185081088   DEBUG: [Artist Slideshow] the url is: http://webservice.fanart.tv/v3/music/?api_key=7a93c84fe1c9999e6f0fec206a66b0f5&client_key=acd26886a4e9f79324e0c9d7107719f4
20:14:25 T:140521185081088   DEBUG: [Artist Slideshow] the params are:
20:14:25 T:140521185081088   DEBUG: [Artist Slideshow] {'api_key': '7a93c84fe1c9999e6f0fec206a66b0f5', 'client_key': 'acd26886a4e9f79324e0c9d7107719f4'}
20:14:25 T:140521185081088   DEBUG: [Artist Slideshow] the data are:
20:14:25 T:140521185081088   DEBUG: [Artist Slideshow] -----URL OBJECT RETURNED-----
20:14:25 T:140521185081088   DEBUG: [Artist Slideshow] checking for /home/test/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/script.artistslideshow/ArtistInformation/213526d2/fanarttvartistimages.nfo
20:14:25 T:140521185081088   DEBUG: [Artist Slideshow] /home/test/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/script.artistslideshow/ArtistInformation/213526d2/fanarttvartistimages.nfo does not exist
20:14:25 T:140521185081088   DEBUG: [Artist Slideshow] checking theaudiodb for images
20:14:25 T:140521185081088   DEBUG: [Artist Slideshow] checking for /home/test/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/script.artistslideshow/ArtistInformation/213526d2/theaudiodbartistbio.nfo
20:14:25 T:140521185081088   DEBUG: [Artist Slideshow] /home/test/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/script.artistslideshow/ArtistInformation/213526d2/theaudiodbartistbio.nfo does not exist
20:14:25 T:140521185081088   DEBUG: [Artist Slideshow] no theaudiodb cachetime file found, creating it
20:14:25 T:140521185081088   DEBUG: [Artist Slideshow] [u'successfuly wrote data to /home/test/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/script.artistslideshow/ArtistInformation/213526d2/theaudiodbcachetime.nfo']
20:14:25 T:140521185081088   DEBUG: [Artist Slideshow] the url is: http://www.theaudiodb.com/api/v1/json/293621276b2d731671156g/artist-mb.php?i=
20:14:25 T:140521185081088   DEBUG: [Artist Slideshow] the params are:
20:14:25 T:140521185081088   DEBUG: [Artist Slideshow] {'i': ''}
20:14:25 T:140521185081088   DEBUG: [Artist Slideshow] the data are:
20:14:25 T:140521185081088   DEBUG: [Artist Slideshow] returning URL as json
20:14:25 T:140521185081088   DEBUG: [Artist Slideshow] unable to convert returned object to acceptable type
20:14:25 T:140521185081088   DEBUG: [Artist Slideshow] <Response [200]>
20:14:25 T:140521185081088   DEBUG: [Artist Slideshow] -----URL OBJECT RETURNED-----
20:14:25 T:140521185081088   DEBUG: [Artist Slideshow] checking for /home/test/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/script.artistslideshow/ArtistInformation/213526d2/theaudiodbartistbio.nfo
20:14:25 T:140521185081088   DEBUG: [Artist Slideshow] /home/test/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/script.artistslideshow/ArtistInformation/213526d2/theaudiodbartistbio.nfo does not exist
20:14:25 T:140521185081088   DEBUG: [Artist Slideshow] no images downloaded
20:14:25 T:140521185081088   DEBUG: [Artist Slideshow] setting slideshow directory to blank directory

[pkscout]

At one point the script worked, and downloaded the images, which I then moved to a seperate folder using the Helper addon. Now any artist I choose, I get a notification saying "Nothing downloaded". Artists are correctly matched with the scraper addons.

With version 2 of AS there was a change to the way the MusicBrainz ID is grabbed. Now AS only asks Kodi for the MusicBrainz artist ID rather than trying to get it directly from the MusicBrainz server. I did this because AS was generating a very significant (and someone debilitating) amount of traffic to MusicBrainz. Because of that, if you don't have the MusicBrainz artist ID tagged in your music, services like fanart.tv and theaudiodb.com won't deliver any results.

Based on just the log snippet, my best bet is that's the issue you are having. You have two choices:

1- Use something like MusicBrainz Picard to add the MusicBrainz artist ID to all your music and then re-scrape.

2- Enable htbackdrops as an image source. That service doesn't need the artist MBID to find artist artwork.

[onewaytrigger]

Hi, I have the following music folder structure:

D:\Music
----\Artist1
-------\Album1
-------\Album2
-------\extrafanart
---------------fanart1.jpg
-------fanart.jpg

I have fanart for all my music artists, and I just want use local fanarts. I set local images only on AS settings path: "D:\Music\". The extrafanart (those on extrafanart folder) are showing properly but the the "fanart.jpg" (on artist folder) not. My problem is that some artist doesn't have extrafanart, so for those artist I get a black screen.
How can I make a single fanart show up for artists that doesn't have extra ones?

[pkscout]

Hi, I have the following music folder structure:

D:\Music
----\Artist1
-------\Album1
-------\Album2
-------\extrafanart
---------------fanart1.jpg
-------fanart.jpg

I have fanart for all my music artists, and I just want use local fanarts. I set local images only on AS settings path: "D:\Music\". The extrafanart (those on extrafanart folder) are showing properly but the the "fanart.jpg" (on artist folder) not. My problem is that some artist doesn't have extrafanart, so for those artist I get a black screen.
How can I make a single fanart show up for artists that doesn't have extra ones?

AS only looks in the extrafanart folder for images. You'll have to move or copy that single image into the extrafanart folder.

[onewaytrigger]

AS only looks in the extrafanart folder for images. You'll have to move or copy that single image into the extrafanart folder.

Do you know some script or bact-file to do that? I have more than a thousand of artists folders...

[PantsOnFire]

@pkscout

If AS is downloading the art, then the highest likelihood is that it's a skin issue. If you post a debug log (make sure both Kodi and AS debugging are on), I can check that. AS should work fine with the 15.x branch, and I only use standard Kodi XML files to create the settings area. So if the menus aren't working, that again points towards the skin.

Thank you for offering to help.
I went ahead and did what you said.

I've uploaded the log here:
http://pastebin.com/RAM2Qgka

** I'm really sorry it's so lengthy **
I've chopped it down a bit. I seldom deal with log files and had no idea logging both Kodi and AS would result such a huge file.

Looking thru it (newbie-style), I can see quite a few refs to various ABBA PNG files (I played Abba music).
So it looks like AS is finding the artwork(?).

I don't really understand what I'm reading to be honest (whether its finding the PNG files, or whether it's finding AND downloading the PNG files, I do not know).

--side note: AS seems to spider off and find other related ABBA works? (I can see reference to other ABBA albums which I definitely do not have in my collection). Very clever , this addon!

I hope it highlights the problem. Most greatful for you having a look. Fwiw, I extracted the log remotely, using a JB iPad to ftp in, chopped the file down using a text editor on the iPad etc.etc. Needless to say- this kind of task on an iPad is not fun! :-O ;-)

I agree with you that it might be a skin-related issue...
the fact that the AS config menu details are grey'd out when I use Eminence skin is suspicious.

[pkscout]

AS only looks in the extrafanart folder for images. You'll have to move or copy that single image into the extrafanart folder.

Do you know some script or bact-file to do that? I have more than a thousand of artists folders...

Sorry, no. Maybe someone else will have a suggestion.

[pkscout]

@pkscout

If AS is downloading the art, then the highest likelihood is that it's a skin issue. If you post a debug log (make sure both Kodi and AS debugging are on), I can check that. AS should work fine with the 15.x branch, and I only use standard Kodi XML files to create the settings area. So if the menus aren't working, that again points towards the skin.

Thank you for offering to help.
I went ahead and did what you said.

I've uploaded the log here:
http://pastebin.com/RAM2Qgka

Well, I can same something strange is going on, but I'm not able to duplicate it on any of my setups. Then again, I don't have Kodi 15.x on which to test, so I may have to try and get that on my development machine to see if 2.0 is having an issue with Kodi 15. It seems like AS is checking constantly for the MusicBrainz ID for the artist even though it shouldn't be. I don't know if that's causing your problem but, as I said, it is strange.

I'd like to try two things:

1- I'd like to try a different skin. If nothing else, you can try my confluence mod. You can download my skin repo at https://github.com/pkscout/repository.sk...-1.1.0.zip and then install the Confluence mod for your version of Kodi.

If that doesn't help, then:

2- Switch to the default skin, uninstall AS, backup and then manually delete the script.artistslideshow folder from the userdata folder, then download AS again and switch back to a skin that uses it.

If neither of those improve things, I may have to get Kodi 15 installed here to see if I can figure out what's going on.

[onewaytrigger]

Sorry, no. Maybe someone else will have a suggestion.

I made it by command-line on Windows 10. It can be handy for Emby users like me.

Run it on cmd at the main music folder ("D:\Music" on my case):

Code:

FOR /d %A IN (D:\Music\*) DO copy "%A\fanart.jpg" "%A\extrafanart"

[onewaytrigger]

When I thought everything was perfect...

I played a song with featured artist (namely: "Icona Pop - I Love It (feat. Charli XCX") and AS showed 1 Icona fanart and the rest Charli XCX.
The problem is that from now on every single song with "feat." on title the only fanarts that shows up are from Charli XCX!

I guess AS looks for it in the song title since I don't have any multi artist albums, for all my albums the Artist field is the same for Album Artist... There is any way of make AS to only look for Album Artist fanart?