There is a new release imminent that requires updated skin support. If you are using Estuary in Kodi 18.5 or later, there is already support for the new version of Artist Slideshow included. My Estuary mod also includes the necessary support. If, after upgrading, your skin no longer displays images and instead only shows an upgrade message, please contact the skin author or see below for examples on how to fix it manually. One other note. If you get a crash right after upgrading, please try restarting Kodi. I switched to a more secure XML parser, and for some reason even though the module downloads it doesn't seem to load until after a restart in some cases.
v.3.0.0
- rewrite to use a single image control instead of multi-image control in skin
- reworked settings
- added option to disable extranfanart folder
- added option to control time between slide transitions
- outdated language files removed, so AS is English only for now (sorry)
- removed option to have a pop up displayed when downloading artwork
- AS can now store images and information files in separate directory structure
- updated settings to allow for storing music in Kodi music folder
- AS now deletes empty artist information and artwork folders
In order to get the support for the new Kodi music artist folder to work, I had to fundamentally change the way AS displays images. With 3.0.0, AS now uses a single image control to show artwork and programmatically gets the list of images *and* controls the timing and order of the slideshow.
Skin Updates
I'll show my Estuary update as an example.
Original Estuary code in MusicVisualization.xml (lines 17 - 32):
xml:
<control type="image">
<aspectratio>scale</aspectratio>
<fadetime>400</fadetime>
<animation effect="fade" start="0" end="100" time="400">WindowOpen</animation>
<animation effect="fade" start="100" end="0" time="300">WindowClose</animation>
<texture background="true" colordiffuse="88FFFFFF">$INFO[Player.Art(fanart)]</texture>
</control>
<control type="multiimage">
<aspectratio>scale</aspectratio>
<timeperimage>10000</timeperimage>
<randomize>true</randomize>
<fadetime>600</fadetime>
<loop>yes</loop>
<imagepath background="true">$INFO[Window(Visualisation).Property(ArtistSlideshow)]</imagepath>
<visible>System.HasAddon(script.artistslideshow)</visible>
</control>
To get both 2.x and 3.x support, replace the above with:
xml:
<control type="image">
<aspectratio>scale</aspectratio>
<fadetime>400</fadetime>
<animation effect="fade" start="0" end="100" time="400">WindowOpen</animation>
<animation effect="fade" start="100" end="0" time="300">WindowClose</animation>
<texture background="true">$INFO[Player.Art(fanart)]</texture>
<visible>String.IsEmpty(Window(Visualisation).Property(ArtistSlideshow.Image))</visible>
</control>
<control type="image">
<aspectratio>scale</aspectratio>
<fadetime>400</fadetime>
<animation effect="fade" start="0" end="100" time="400">WindowOpen</animation>
<animation effect="fade" start="100" end="0" time="300">WindowClose</animation>
<texture background="true">$INFO[Window(Visualisation).Property(ArtistSlideshow.Image)]</texture>
<visible>!String.IsEmpty(Window(Visualisation).Property(ArtistSlideshow.Image))</visible>
</control>
<control type="multiimage">
<aspectratio>scale</aspectratio>
<timeperimage>10000</timeperimage>
<randomize>true</randomize>
<fadetime>600</fadetime>
<loop>yes</loop>
<imagepath background="true">$INFO[Window(Visualisation).Property(ArtistSlideshow)]</imagepath>
<visible>!String.IsEmpty(Window(Visualisation).Property(ArtistSlideshow.ArtworkReady)</visible>
</control>
