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disrupted · 2014-12-28, 17:49

(2014-12-28, 03:59)tscholl Wrote: I had been running Artist Slideshow 1.7.0 on Gotham and updated to Kodi RC2 with no problems. When RC3 came out I updated again with no problems.

This weekend when I started Kodi however, it did some "auto updates" to several packages and then gave me a message the said.

" Artist Slide Show has unmet dependencies, Do you want to disable it"

I looked through the log but didn't see anything written in there. It still seems to work though, Any thoughts?

I also had this problem. this addon requires xbmc.addon version 14.0.0 and I was running the latest OpenELEC 5.0 RC3 which doesn't include the final Kodi code yet, so it's prior to 14.0. Guess I'll just have to wait until the OE guys update the Kodi binary. In the meantime I changed the addon.xml myself to xbmc.addon 13.0 so I can install the update on my system Tongue

tscholl · (This post was last modified: 2014-12-30, 02:43 by tscholl.)

(2014-12-28, 04:24)pkscout Wrote:
(2014-12-28, 03:59)tscholl Wrote: I had been running Artist Slideshow 1.7.0 on Gotham and updated to Kodi RC2 with no problems. When RC3 came out I updated again with no problems.

This weekend when I started Kodi however, it did some "auto updates" to several packages and then gave me a message the said.

" Artist Slide Show has unmet dependencies, Do you want to disable it"

I looked through the log but didn't see anything written in there. It still seems to work though, Any thoughts?

I also I changed the addon.xml myself to xbmc.addon 13.0 and it installed.
The new Kodi version of AS requires updated versions of a couple other modules, and they should have updated as well. I'd try uninstalling AS and reinstalling it. That will hopefully force the other updates.

Well I noticed that when I went to the screen to remove the addon it had a message to the side that said
'Update Available" for both Artist slide Show and Slide Show Helper. However clicking it did nothing. So following your suggestion I un-installed both.

Then went to the install addon screens and neither were listed. Then tried to install from a zip file and it basically says that dependency's are not met contact the author and would not install the addon.

micnda · 2014-12-29, 20:51

(2014-12-24, 20:07)pkscout Wrote:
(2014-12-24, 05:59)micnda Wrote: Hi Could some please tell me if there is a way to manual tell Artist Slideshow the correct band ID. I'm trying to get it to pick up run-D.M.C. but it can't seem to handle the "-" in the name. In the files it puts the following. RunΓÇôD.M.C. If I replace this with the correct answer it still doesn't work. Any help would be appreciated.

You'll need to find the data folder for Kodi (location depends on your OS) and then go to userdata/addon_data/script.artistslideshow/ArtistInfomation. The directory for the artist is hashed, so you should probably use Artist Slideshow Helper to get the hashed name for the artist in question. Once you find the right has folder, open it and edit the musicbrainz.nfo file. It looks like the musicbrainz ID for run-D.M.C. is 5ecc3f72-20a6-47a0-8dc5-fb0b3dadeea0. Put that ID in the musicbrainz.nfo file and then AS won't try and find the MBID any longer.

Thanks pkscout this worked perfectly!

**pkscout** · (This post was last modified: 2014-12-29, 21:37 by pkscout.)

(2014-12-28, 17:49)freem@n Wrote:
(2014-12-28, 03:59)tscholl Wrote: I had been running Artist Slideshow 1.7.0 on Gotham and updated to Kodi RC2 with no problems. When RC3 came out I updated again with no problems.

This weekend when I started Kodi however, it did some "auto updates" to several packages and then gave me a message the said.

" Artist Slide Show has unmet dependencies, Do you want to disable it"

I looked through the log but didn't see anything written in there. It still seems to work though, Any thoughts?

I also had this problem. this addon requires xbmc.addon version 14.0.0 and I was running the latest OpenELEC 5.0 RC3 which doesn't include the final Kodi code yet, so it's prior to 14.0. Guess I'll just have to wait until the OE guys update the Kodi binary. In the meantime I changed the addon.xml myself to xbmc.addon 13.0 so I can install the update on my system

My apologies for all this. I didn't realize that there was still a build that was still in RC, so I went ahead and updated the dependencies when Helix shipped. As noted, you can manually change the dependency as above in the meantime.

(2014-12-28, 22:47)tscholl Wrote: Then went to the install addon screens and neither were listed. Then tried to install from a zip file and it basically says that dependency's are not met contact the author and would not install the addon.

I'm assuming you are still running a RC version of Helix. If you have the zip file, you can unzip it, modify addon.xml so that the xvmc.addon version says 13.0.0 (instead of 14.0.0), and then rezip it. That should allow you to install it.

tscholl · 2014-12-30, 22:53

(2014-12-29, 21:35)pkscout Wrote:
(2014-12-28, 17:49)freem@n Wrote:
(2014-12-28, 03:59)tscholl Wrote: I had been running Artist Slideshow 1.7.0 on Gotham and updated to Kodi RC2 with no problems. When RC3 came out I updated again with no problems.

This weekend when I started Kodi however, it did some "auto updates" to several packages and then gave me a message the said.

" Artist Slide Show has unmet dependencies, Do you want to disable it"

I looked through the log but didn't see anything written in there. It still seems to work though, Any thoughts?

I also had this problem. this addon requires xbmc.addon version 14.0.0 and I was running the latest OpenELEC 5.0 RC3 which doesn't include the final Kodi code yet, so it's prior to 14.0. Guess I'll just have to wait until the OE guys update the Kodi binary. In the meantime I changed the addon.xml myself to xbmc.addon 13.0 so I can install the update on my system

My apologies for all this. I didn't realize that there was still a build that was still in RC, so I went ahead and updated the dependencies when Helix shipped. As noted, you can manually change the dependency as above in the meantime.

(2014-12-28, 22:47)tscholl Wrote: Then went to the install addon screens and neither were listed. Then tried to install from a zip file and it basically says that dependency's are not met contact the author and would not install the addon.

I'm assuming you are still running a RC version of Helix. If you have the zip file, you can unzip it, modify addon.xml so that the xvmc.addon version says 13.0.0 (instead of 14.0.0), and then rezip it. That should allow you to install it.

Ok I figured out what "really" happened. And it wasn't really your fault. It was a problem with RC3.

In previous versions of KODI RC 1, 2, and it would always notify you when a "New Version" was available. This did not happen in RC3. So I and others didn't know that "Helix" had been released!

Once I update to the Release version, then artist slide show updated to version 1.8.2 and all is well.

Ed76 · 2014-12-30, 23:48

for xbmc13 there where two xml files (musicosd.xml and another one) available to support confluence skin. are these files also abailable for kodi14/confluence?

**pkscout** · 2014-12-31, 00:16

(2014-12-30, 23:48)Ed76 Wrote: for xbmc13 there where two xml files (musicosd.xml and another one) available to support confluence skin. are these files also abailable for kodi14/confluence?

Not any longer. It became too much of a hassle to support folks who modified the Confluence skin. There are a few options for Helix users:

Check to see if one of the popular Confluence mods supports AS (best to check the Confluence forum section for that).
Download my skin repo and get a modified version of Confluence that supports AS (and some other things). You can get the repo from https://github.com/pkscout/repository.sk...-1.1.0.zip
Download a copy of my modified version of Confluence and move those two files over (MusicOSD.xml and MusicVisualization.xml). You can get that at https://github.com/pkscout/skin.confluen...master.zip

Hope that helps.

Ed76 · 2014-12-31, 01:12

(2014-12-31, 00:16)pkscout Wrote:
(2014-12-30, 23:48)Ed76 Wrote: for xbmc13 there where two xml files (musicosd.xml and another one) available to support confluence skin. are these files also abailable for kodi14/confluence?

Not any longer. It became too much of a hassle to support folks who modified the Confluence skin. There are a few options for Helix users:

Check to see if one of the popular Confluence mods supports AS (best to check the Confluence forum section for that).

Download my skin repo and get a modified version of Confluence that supports AS (and some other things). You can get the repo from https://github.com/pkscout/repository.sk...-1.1.0.zip

Download a copy of my modified version of Confluence and move those two files over (MusicOSD.xml and MusicVisualization.xml). You can get that at https://github.com/pkscout/skin.confluen...master.zip

Hope that helps.

thank you! will try option 3 :-)

guenter306 · 2014-12-31, 15:05

Hi pkscout,

I did a complete re-install with Kodi and installed Artist slideshow too.
The Artist slideshow script starts and artist directories etc are created but then the script fails.
looking at the error log it seems that an incorrect path name causes the error.

Looks like my username "Günter" causes some trouble in one case and a wrong (non existing) path is used :-(

Maybe you can have a look at it ?

3:26:57 T:6036 NOTICE: Starting Kodi (14.0 Git:20141223-ad747d9). Platform: Windows NT x86 32-bit
13:26:57 T:6036 NOTICE: Using Release Kodi x32 build
13:26:57 T:6036 NOTICE: Kodi compiled Dec 23 2014 by MSVC 180030723 for Windows NT x86 32-bit version 6.0 (0x06000000)
13:26:57 T:6036 NOTICE: Running on Windows 8.1, kernel: Windows NT x86 32-bit version 6.3
13:26:57 T:6036 NOTICE: Host CPU: Intel® Core™2 CPU 6400 @ 2.13GHz, 2 cores available
13:26:57 T:6036 NOTICE: Desktop Resolution: 1920x1080 32Bit at 60Hz
13:26:57 T:6036 NOTICE: Running with restricted rights
13:26:57 T:6036 NOTICE: Aero is enabled
13:26:57 T:6036 NOTICE: special://xbmc/ is mapped to: C:\Program Files\Kodi
13:26:57 T:6036 NOTICE: special://xbmcbin/ is mapped to: C:\Program Files\Kodi
13:26:57 T:6036 NOTICE: special://masterprofile/ is mapped to: C:\Users\Günter\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\userdata
13:26:57 T:6036 NOTICE: special://home/ is mapped to: C:\Users\Günter\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\
13:26:57 T:6036 NOTICE: special://temp/ is mapped to: C:\Users\Günter\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\cache
13:26:57 T:6036 NOTICE: The executable running is: C:\Program Files\Kodi\Kodi.exe
13:26:57 T:6036 NOTICE: Local hostname: GG-Mediacenter
13:26:57 T:6036 NOTICE: Log File is located: C:\Users\Günter\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\kodi.log

##### Günter: I deleted the rest until Artist slideshow starts ######

13:27:34 T:1048 NOTICE: [Artist Slideshow] script version 1.8.2 started
13:27:34 T:1048 NOTICE: [Artist Slideshow] debug logging set to true
13:27:36 T:1048 ERROR: EXCEPTION Thrown (PythonToCppException) : -->Python callback/script returned the following error<--
- NOTE: IGNORING THIS CAN LEAD TO MEMORY LEAKS!
Error Type: <type 'exceptions.WindowsError'>
Error Contents: (3, 'The system cannot find the path specified', 'C:\\Users\\G\xc3\xbcnter\\AppData\\Roaming\\Kodi\\userdata\\addon_data\\script.artistslideshow\\temp\\50d33fa8.tbn')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\G�nter\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\script.artistslideshow\default.py", line 1399, in <module>
slideshow = Main()
File "C:\Users\G�nter\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\script.artistslideshow\default.py", line 121, in __init__
self._use_correct_artwork()
File "C:\Users\G�nter\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\script.artistslideshow\default.py", line 1353, in _use_correct_artwork
self._start_download()
File "C:\Users\G�nter\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\script.artistslideshow\default.py", line 1235, in _start_download
if self._download(url, path, path2):
File "C:\Users\G�nter\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\script.artistslideshow\default.py", line 200, in _download
if os.path.getsize( tmpname ) > 999:
File "C:\Program Files\Kodi\system\python\Lib\genericpath.py", line 49, in getsize
return os.stat(filename).st_size
WindowsError: (3, 'The system cannot find the path specified', 'C:\\Users\\G\xc3\xbcnter\\AppData\\Roaming\\Kodi\\userdata\\addon_data\\script.artistslideshow\\temp\\50d33fa8.tbn')
-->End of Python script error report<--

thank you
Günter

alexp4re · (This post was last modified: 2014-12-31, 20:09 by alexp4re.)

Hi pkscout - was there a recent update to AS or something? as of today for me, tthe addon is broken; script fails.

win 7 x64, xbmc 13.2 gotham

drewcovi · 2014-12-31, 20:29

I'm able to reproduce issues with artist names that include ampersands, I believe it boils down to an inability to parse the musicbrainz response.

Attached is what I believe to be somewhat relevant debugging info comparing macklemore and ryan lewis to m83, although it may be a deeper issue (if the slideshow attempts two lookups for instance)

I'm running latest openelec on kodi

Broken search for Macklemore (checking url, the id is clearly returned)

Code:
47:29 T:140318259279616   DEBUG: [Artist Slideshow] the url is: http://www.musicbrainz.org/ws/2/artist?query=artist%3A%22Macklemore+and+Ryan+Lewis%22&fmt=json

47:29 T:140318259279616   DEBUG: [Artist Slideshow] the params are:

47:29 T:140318259279616   DEBUG: [Artist Slideshow] {'query': u'artist:"Macklemore and Ryan Lewis"', 'fmt': 'json'}

47:29 T:140318259279616   DEBUG: [Artist Slideshow] the data are:

47:29 T:140318259279616   DEBUG: [Artist Slideshow] returning URL as json

47:29 T:140318259279616   DEBUG: [Artist Slideshow] -----URL OBJECT RETURNED-----

47:29 T:140318259279616   DEBUG: [Artist Slideshow] {u'count': 1, u'offset': 0, u'artists': [{u'name': u'Macklemore & Ryan Lewis', u'area': {u'sort-name': u'Seattle', u'id': u'10adc6b5-63bf-4b4e-993e-ed83b05c22fc', u'name': u'Seattle'}, u'life-span': {u'ended': None, u'begin': u'2009'}, u'sort-name': u'Macklemore & Lewis, Ryan', u'score': u'100', u'begin-area': {u'sort-name': u'Seattle', u'id': u'10adc6b5-63bf-4b4e-993e-ed83b05c22fc', u'name': u'Seattle'}, u'type': u'Group', u'id': u'97b226c8-7140-4da3-91ac-15e62e131a81'}], u'created': u'2014-12-31T16:41:30.769Z'}

47:29 T:140318259279616   DEBUG: [Artist Slideshow] playing file is pipe://4/ - Macklemore and Ryan Lewis - Same Love Ft. Mary Lambert

47:29 T:140318259279616   DEBUG: Previous line repeats 1 times.

47:29 T:140318259279616   DEBUG: [Artist Slideshow] No musicbrainz ID found for Macklemore and Ryan Lewis. writing empty cache file.

for some reason this one works....again checked the json response seems to be aligned.

Code:
03:41 T:140318259279616   DEBUG: [Artist Slideshow] the url is: http://www.musicbrainz.org/ws/2/artist?query=artist%3A%22M83%22&fmt=json

03:41 T:140318259279616   DEBUG: [Artist Slideshow] the params are:

03:41 T:140318259279616   DEBUG: [Artist Slideshow] {'query': u'artist:"M83"', 'fmt': 'json'}

03:41 T:140318259279616   DEBUG: [Artist Slideshow] the data are:

03:41 T:140318259279616   DEBUG: [Artist Slideshow] returning URL as json

03:41 T:140318259279616   DEBUG: [Artist Slideshow] -----URL OBJECT RETURNED-----

03:41 T:140318259279616   DEBUG: [Artist Slideshow] {u'count': 1, u'offset': 0, u'artists': [{u'name': u'M83', u'area': {u'sort-name': u'France', u'id': u'08310658-51eb-3801-80de-5a0739207115', u'name': u'France'}, u'country': u'FR', u'life-span': {u'ended': None, u'begin': u'2001'}, u'tags': [{u'count': 1, u'name': u'electronic'}, {u'count': 1, u'name': u'shoegaze'}, {u'count': 1, u'name': u'french'}, {u'count': 1, u'name': u'electronic music'}, {u'count': 1, u'name': u'space rock'}, {u'count': 2, u'name': u'dream pop'}, {u'count': 1, u'name': u'synth pop'}, {u'count': 1, u'name': u'dance and electronica'}, {u'count': 1, u'name': u'ambient music'}], u'sort-name': u'M83', u'score': u'100', u'type': u'Group', u'id': u'6d7b7cd4-254b-4c25-83f6-dd20f98ceacd'}], u'created': u'2014-12-31T16:41:30.769Z'}

03:41 T:140318259279616   DEBUG: [Artist Slideshow] playing file is pipe://7/ - M83 - Raconte-Moi Une Histoire

03:41 T:140318259279616   DEBUG: Previous line repeats 1 times.

03:41 T:140318259279616   DEBUG: [Artist Slideshow] found a potential musicbrainz ID of 6d7b7cd4-254b-4c25-83f6-dd20f98ceacd for M83

PeterMac · (This post was last modified: 2014-12-31, 22:41 by PeterMac.)

pkscout - could you make Confluance skin to show Artist Slideshow with a Visualization Waveform, or how to do that ?

**pkscout** · (This post was last modified: 2014-12-31, 22:52 by pkscout.)

(2014-12-31, 20:09)alexp4re Wrote: Hi pkscout - was there a recent update to AS or something? as of today for me, tthe addon is broken; script fails.

win 7 x64, xbmc 13.2 gotham

Without a debug log I can't help.

(2014-12-31, 20:29)drewcovi Wrote: I'm able to reproduce issues with artist names that include ampersands, I believe it boils down to an inability to parse the musicbrainz response.

Attached is what I believe to be somewhat relevant debugging info comparing macklemore and ryan lewis to m83, although it may be a deeper issue (if the slideshow attempts two lookups for instance)

I'm running latest openelec on kodi

According to MusicBrainz, the name of the group is "Macklemore & Ryan Lewis", not "Macklemore and Ryan Lewis." The MusicBrainz search results are very sloppy, so in order to make sure AS doesn't grab the wrong artist, the artist name in Kodi must match exactly the name in MusicBrainz. AS also looks at an artist's aliases in MusicBrainz, so I submitted an edit request to add the alias "Macklemore and Ryan Lewis" to the artist. I have no idea if it'll be accepted or how long it will take. So either you need to rename the artist to match what's in MusicBrainz or you need to find the mbid.nfo file for the artist and manually but the MBID in there.

**pkscout** · (This post was last modified: 2014-12-31, 23:06 by pkscout.)

(2014-12-31, 22:13)PeterMac Wrote: pkscout - could you make Confluance skin to show Artist Slideshow with a Visualization Waveform, or how to do that ?

You need to look in MusicVisualization.xml and move the visualization so it loads on top of the AS image. I'm not supporting the Confluence mods anymore, so you're on your own as to how that gets done.

(2014-12-31, 15:05)guenter306 Wrote: Hi pkscout,

I did a complete re-install with Kodi and installed Artist slideshow too.
The Artist slideshow script starts and artist directories etc are created but then the script fails.
looking at the error log it seems that an incorrect path name causes the error.

Looks like my username "Günter" causes some trouble in one case and a wrong (non existing) path is used :-(

At this point I'm 99% sure that AS properly handles unicode characters in the path name, so I don't believe your username is the issue. I would try deleting the addon and all the data in the Kodi user data folder related to AS. Then reinstall it and see what happens. If that doesn't help, I'll really need a link to the complete debug log. Sometimes there are hints in places you wouldn't expect.

PeterMac · 2014-12-31, 23:52

(2014-12-31, 22:57)pkscout Wrote:
(2014-12-31, 22:13)PeterMac Wrote: pkscout - could you make Confluance skin to show Artist Slideshow with a Visualization Waveform, or how to do that ?

You need to look in MusicVisualization.xml and move the visualization so it loads on top of the AS image. I'm not supporting the Confluence mods anymore, so you're on your own as to how that gets done.

OK thank you, I finally did Smile

and now work perfect as I wanted. btw. Happy new year !