[ronie]

I agree that this would be the most elegant if it were possible.

Would it not be theoretically possible to for the user to input his music folder either via manually editing the script or via a skin option? Then the script could write images to a subfolder in each artist's folder much like the "extrafanart" function reads from the extrafanart folder within one artists folder if the artist name and folder name matches exactly.

In this case of folder name and artist name not matching up exactly, it wouldn't be the end of the world if a new folder was created with the alternative (last.fm's) spelling/syntax. (Ie. I might have a folder called Sly and Robbie - last.fm wants Sly & Robbie so puts the images in a new folder with that name instead. Not a big deal and can be easily tidied later.

There's probably a good reason why this is still impractical, but I figured it might be possible due to the way extrafanart for music works in some skins.

yeah i did the same in Transparency, but i don't like to put similars hacks in this script.