[fredphoesh]

Hi there
Thanks for the quick response.

The music I was playing was via Radio addon, so the internet connection is fine, and the artist was Beck and there is definitely fan art for him.

The problem did get sorted with restarting xbmc... but as far as whether the skin Im using is starting ArtistSlideshow as a daemon, I have no clue at all

The skin is BigNoid-Aeon-Nox-1dbf00e, and in full screen mode, there is a setting in this skin to use ArtistSlideshow as the background. Choosing another background and reverting to AritstSlideshow does not fix the issue, only restarting xbmc does. I'm not sure if that gives you any more ideas, but my sense is that ArtistSlideshow is not restarted when exiting full screen mode...

Thanks again,
Mark.

Assuming you not using one of the skins that starts Artist Slideshow as a daemon, exiting out of the full screen music visualization and going back in will restart Artist Slideshow. That said, I can only think of a couple of things that would cause a black screen. First, there are no images to display in the directory. If you are also not getting any artist info, then I'm wondering if it's a "simple" internet connectivity issue. Second, I have seen XBMC just stop showing images (something to do with the image cache). Restarting XBMC usually fixes that. If your problem persists, please post a debug log.