[fredphoesh]

this will lead to one problem though: what if only low-res images are available for a certain artist?

Hi Ronie, fantastic job mate... limited fan art has been my biggest gripe about xbmc since I have been using it... but PLEASE do not remove fan art below a certain size, unless of course the user can optionally create a limitation if they want. The fan art IMO is just eye candy, so I would far prefer something than nothing at all.

i'm thinking of a different approach, that could be handled by the skin instead of the script:
- 1) if extrafanart is available, show the extrafanart slideshow
- 2) if no extrafanart is available, fallback to the last.fm artist slideshow
- 3) if neither of the above return any images, display the default fanart image.

sounds like a good idea.
My thoughts are that when browsing your library, it makes sense to use art, any art, that is available locally. When browsing, you often move rapidly through lists of artists and albums, so to try and download from LastFM 10 times in a second would probably slow the system down and be unnecessary... but from what I understand it seems your script only works in full screen playback mode only anyway, so this may be a moot point?

Exciting times...
Mark.