[pkscout]

I've got an updated fork at https://github.com/pkscout/script.artistslideshow. As before, the version number has not been revised, so when the script gets updated in the repo, these changes will get overwritten. I've been testing this all afternoon, and it appears to be working fine. The one exception is that the first time a download cache directory is created the slideshow will only show the first image downloaded until the artist plays again. I walked the code by hand, and I see where the refresh is suppose to happen, and I even see it happen on my screen (you see black for a second). But it just doesn't budge that first image. I don't think anything I did has altered the behavior, so I just decided to call it a feature that already existed in the plugin and move on with my life.

The settings now has a GENERAL and ADVANCED tab. The GENERAL tab is all the stuff that's always been there. I made one change to the GENERAL tab. In looking through the code, it looks like last.fm doesn't let you do minimum image size, so I set the min height and width options to show only if you select htbackdrops as a download option. The ADVANCED tab has all the stuff for the fallback options.

The script now does a three phase test to determine what images are shown.

1- If you set the Override folder path, those images will get shown and no artwork will be downloaded. This slideshow just runs in the background no matter what artist is playing.

2- If you set the Local artist folder by default the script will use those only if it can't find any images to download. If you set Prioritize local artist artwork, then the script will use the local stuff and only try to download images if it can't find any local artwork. In either case, what you see depends on the artist being played at the moment.

3- If you set the Fallback slideshow path, it will show that if the script can find local or remote artwork that matches.

The Override and Fallback folders must be a non-nested folder of images.

The Local artist folder has to be in the form of path/artist/extrafanart/. When you set the Local artist folder, you just set it up to path/. The artist directory name must match exactly what the script is getting from the tags of the music file.

On my Mac and Windows machine, the python call that gets the directory appears to be case insensitive. I don't have a Linux machine to test with, so it's possible that if you have something like Extrafanart or ExtraFanArt that the script won't find any local artwork. If someone could check that and let me know that would be great.

The only other thing I'd like to do is have the script set the fade time and image time for the slideshow, but that would require skin changes. I think I'll wait until Ronnie has a chance to look at what I've done before I take on anything else.

One last thing. These changes now let you use local images, but I still encourage people to upload their images to last.fm or htbackdrops so other folks get the benefit of your images. I mostly use the local stuff in cases where the script downloads either stuff I don't like or the wrong stuff (i.e. I got a bunch of Pink Floyd images when I was listening to Pink).