[kiboy6]

Hi Ronie...

Regarding the above, even if it has no place in the addon itself, do you have any idea what direction I should go in to get a one-off script going to copy those images over as I want?

Further to that:


1.) Bug report

Hello Ronie,

I have a folder of single tracks, a compilation of world music, and the artist slideshow script works beautifully, but then it stops on one artist, and no matter what I do, it will not show play another artist's images.

I have repeated this 5 times on one computer and twice on this computer, so it is reliably visible. To try to get the script to show other tracks, I switched from playlist to file mode, then back to library and chose all sorts of artists, but the script kept on cycling the one it got stuck on.

I'm still experiencing this problem intermittently with the official v.1 repo release of the script.

Sometimes it works perfectly as intended, but sometimes the same picture(s) of the first played artist will endure throughout a long, multi-artist playlist.

In this debug log the original single last.fm image for Beres Hammond remains displayed throughout the second song (by different artist Etana). During the third song (by a third artist, Voicemail) I pressed tab to exit the visualisation, and then again to re-enter the visualisation.
Here, what happens is interesting. First some more Beres Hammond images start cycling, and then after a minute or so the correct "Voicemail" images start displaying. Any ideas why this is happening? From then on, everything works perfectly.

edit 2 I've noticed something else that may help troubleshoot this. Often when a song starts playing I will press tab to see the visualization. At first I will see the generic music pic, then as soon as an image is downloaded from last.fm I will see that image. However that is then the only image I see until I tab out and back into the visualization. Once back on the visualiztion there are suddenly several images in the slideshow. If another artist starts playing and I don't cycle the visualization on/off as above, the playlist will stay stuck on the first pic. So this seems to be an issue regarding when the slideshow refreshes, not a downloading issue. In any case, I can replicate the bug even when changing to an artist for which there are already cached ArtistSlideshow images


edit - after noticing that with "useddsfanart" advanced setting enabled, all of the slideshow cache images were being converted to .dds, I tried disabling that setting. At first things did seem to be running more smoothly, until after a while I got stuck with Al Green on the slideshow through several artist changes until I closed XBMC. Here's that log

2. Request:
Even when everything is working perfectly, there is one other small flaw in my opinion. When a new artist's songs starts playing, the previous artist's images remain displayed until the first new image is downloaded. This usually happens within 20 seconds or so, but if the network is congested on a crappy connection like mine it can sometimes take much longer. Would there be any chance of reverting to the placeholder generic pic during this interim period?


Cheers Ronie - sorry to bug you, I just can't wait to get this working perfectly on my system