[danbb]

Hi, 
I am trying to install this Aeon MQ8 for matrix skin in my Nvidia shield with android 11 and kodi 19. I have installed two repositories from instructions but when I install the skin, it stacks on 5% in downloading and 10 munutes ago and continues on 5%. What can I do?
Thank you

Edit: I have reset kodi and now downloads and installs all fine

[latts9923]

@Shredder_guitar
I just created a fallback folder on my NAS drive that's attached to my router. I used this as my fallback for Artist Slideshow and added an Artist that has no fanart. When I play a song from that Artist I see the fallback fanart in music viz.

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@danbb
Howdy...good to hear that you got it working.

[Chalklands]

@Shredder_guitar Artist Slideshow works well for me. The only glitch I have found currently is when I skip a song for some reason the artwork stops and I just get a blank background from that point on. Don’t know why that happens.

I don't think the discart for multiple discs is working.
For example, double album with discart1, discart2.
Go into the album and I see Disc 1 and Disc 2 on the menu. If I tab down to each, discart1 & discart2 will pop up (Right list view), however, if I drill down on either disc and select a track to play, it shows the blank CR-R disc unless I go into information, choose art and add a png to 'discart' which only displays the last imported discart. discart1 and discart2 are populated correctly. If you see what I mean?

[Shredder_guitar]

@latts9923  Just to confirm settings, under Music>Art , you have "Default Fanart" set, and underneath the settings in Background Image, you have Artist Fanart toggled, and nothing else set for backgrounds, correct?

[Xstream Master]

someting is not ok, before my logo was ok if i dont use the media case, now all my logo are rectangular not square. before i juste have to go in media view and remove case and the logo was square, now the case disapear but the logo stay rectangular

[latts9923]

@Chalklands
I added code to display the discart1, discart2, etc. images while browsing songs. I initially only added code for this to work in music viz, but it looks good while browsing songs as well. Thanks for the request!

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@Shredder_guitar
The "ARTIST FANART" setting in music viz does not use the Artist Slideshow add-on...it just displays the default fanart image. It also had no fallback, so I just added the skin's default music background as a fallback if fanart is missing. In order to use Artist Slideshow, you have to enable "SLIDESHOW", "SLIDESHOW + VIEWING", "MOSAIC SLIDESHOW", or "MOSAIC SLIDESHOW + VIEWING".

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@Xstream Master
I think I know what you're talking about. I've changed the code for Right List to display genres, add-ons and countriy icons in the correct aspect and not stretched.

[Shredder_guitar]

@latts9923  There it is! Switching to slideshow instead of Artist Fanart i think is what i was after. Saving the day again. I think the names of these functions could be improved upon, you're the creative mastermind behind all of this, so i leave that to you to improve upon, just noting that i had a lot of confusion not knowing that Artist Fanart had nothing to do with the artist slideshow even though it appeared that the functions were the same, If i had known that i wouldn't have had as much trouble. 

Shout out to @wags1 for offering up suggestions

[Chalklands]

@latts9923
Thank you. I really appreciate the work you do on this skin. Much, much appreciated!

[Jumpy73]

Hi @latts9923 

I see the United States flag. Let me take a look at the US flags again in the add-on and make sure they are all the same image.

I have this tag

Code:

<country>United States</country>

 in my .nfo file for american movies. I suppose it is a good value for the kodi interpreter
 

I don't think there's a country fanart add-on available. That would take some time to compile fanart images for countries.

yes, I can agree with you. Probably using the fanart of the relative main menu bar could be a viable solution instead of leaving the image of the last action done (tipically the fanart of the last selected movie)In order to not include the IMDb Top 250 icon in the media flag bar. What do you think about it?


I was used to comment all the relevent rows starting from <!-- IMDb Top 250 *--> under the line <include name="mediaflags_group"> into the Includes.xml file. I don't know why this apporach doesn't work anymore. Does it seems to you still the right way to proceed or something in the xml files is changed?

Thanks a lot

[latts9923]

@Shredder_guitar
I just assumed you were using the Slideshow setting. I should have asked early on in the conversation and we could have saved a lot of headache. Haha. I can rename the buttons to say ARTIST SLIDESHOW...that's no problem.

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@Chalklands
You're welcome!

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@Jumpy73
Are you running v0.0.3 of the Movie Country Flags add-on from my repo?

I fixed the problem with the persisting fanart. Thanks for letting me know!

Are you saying you want to remove the Top 250 flag?

[wags1]

@Shredder_guitar
I just assumed you were using the Slideshow setting. I should have asked early on in the conversation and we could have saved a lot of headache. ...

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Same here...LOL. That is the challenge sometimes, their are so many settings that all have to be right it's hard to know which one(s) to ask about...

[Jumpy73]

Are you running v0.0.3 of the Movie Country Flags add-on from my repo?

Probably not... <addon id="resource.images.moviecountryicons.flags" name="Movie Country Icons - Flags" version="0.0.2" provider-name="braz">
Edit: I updated the Country flag add-on with the v0.0.3 release but unfortunately the problem is still there
 

Are you saying you want to remove the Top 250 flag?

In order to not include the IMDb Top 250 icon in the media flag bar I was used to comment all the relevent rows starting from <!-- IMDb Top 250 *--> under the line <include name="mediaflags_group"> into the Includes.xml file. I don't know why this apporach doesn't work anymore. Does it seems to you still the right way to proceed or something in the xml files is changed and I have to find another solution?

[Angelinas]

 

String.Contains(skin.string(musicfanart),fanart) and String.Contains(skin.string(musicfanart),extra)

that condition was add in MusicVisualisation.xml,,,,better remove all three , and your Window(Visualisation).Property(ArtistSlideshow.Image) will work.

That condition are for list not for MusicVisualisation.

[latts9923]

@Jumpy73
You might try removing your thumbnails in kodi/userdata/Thumbnails.

To remove the Top 250 flag for Movies, open Includes.xml and find <include name="mediaflags_group">. You'll see the Top 250 code below that.

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@Angelinas
String.Contains(skin.string(musicfanart),extra) was in the original MusicVisualisation.xml code for MQ 8, so I assumed it was valid, but it looks to be tied to the FANART button for music viz...not SLIDESHOW. Speaking of, does SkinHelper.Player.Art.ExtraFanArt still work?

[Angelinas]

String.Contains(skin.string(musicfanart),extra) was in the original MusicVisualisation.xml code for MQ 8, so I assumed it was valid, but it looks to be tied to the FANART button for music viz...not SLIDESHOW. Speaking of, does SkinHelper.Player.Art.ExtraFanArt still work?

Nop...you add that
original from https://mirrors.kodi.tv/addons/leia/skin.aeonmq8/
 

Code:

        <!-- Fanart -->
        <control type="image">
            <include>backgroundspecs_single</include>
            <texture background="true">$INFO[MusicPlayer.Property(fanart_image)]</texture>
            <animation effect="fade" start="100" end="50" time="400" condition="String.IsEqual(skin.string(vis_bg),fanartmix) | String.IsEqual(skin.string(vis_bg),slideshowmix)">Conditional</animation>
            <visible>[String.IsEqual(skin.string(vis_bg),fanart) | String.IsEqual(skin.string(vis_bg),fanartmix)] + String.IsEmpty(Control.GetLabel(5043)) + String.IsEmpty(Control.GetLabel(5044)) | [String.IsEqual(skin.string(vis_bg),slideshow) | String.IsEqual(skin.string(vis_bg),slideshowmix)] + String.IsEmpty(Control.GetLabel(5045)) | [String.IsEqual(skin.string(vis_bg),slideshowmosaic) | String.IsEqual(skin.string(vis_bg),slideshowmosaicmix)] + String.IsEmpty(Control.GetLabel(5046)) + String.IsEmpty(Control.GetLabel(5047)) + String.IsEmpty(Control.GetLabel(5048)) + String.IsEmpty(Control.GetLabel(5049)) + String.IsEmpty(Control.GetLabel(5050)) + String.IsEmpty(Control.GetLabel(5051))</visible>
        </control>

and for multiimage have that line like your.....but that is also wrong

Window(Home).Property(SkinHelper.Player.Art.ExtraFanArt)
working, bur you don't use in MusicVisualisation

What is condition for ArtistSlideshow ?
!String.IsEmpty(Window(Visualisation).Property(ArtistSlideshow.ArtworkReady))
this cosing False

Code:

<visible>String.IsEqual(skin.string(vis_bg),slideshow) | String.IsEqual(skin.string(vis_bg),slideshowmix) | !String.IsEmpty(Window(Visualisation).Property(ArtistSlideshow.ArtworkReady))</visible>