[pkscout]

Artist Slideshow 1.3.5 beta

1.3.5 introduces slideshows for songs with multiple artists. It was a bit more of a pain than I had thought it would be, but it seems to be working now. Here's what it does:

1. AS parses the artist field and splits it up into multiple artists based on either "/", "feat.", or "ft."
   
2. AS then takes the first artist and runs through the normal routine of finding images and then displays them
   
3. AS then does the same thing for the next artist, except instead of displaying them it copies them to that other directory
   
4. the step above continues for all artists (i.e. AS can handle an arbitrary number of artists in the field)
   
5. once the last artist has been processed, AS switches to the folder with the merged images
   

A few notes.

• AS downloads the artist bio only for the first artist. I just didn't want to try and figure out how to merge all that text in any meaningful way, and I figure the first artist is the primary artist for the work anyway.
  
• If your second artist has a bunch of images to download, it may be awhile before you see any. It was hard enough to get the code to this point. Adding the progressive download to multiple artists would probably make my ears bleed.
  
• AS will also check the title field for "feat." or "ft." I did that mainly because that seems to be the standard iTunes and Amazon use, and I didn't want to redo all mine. AS can still do an arbitrary number of artists, but the title would have to be something like [b]SONG NAME feat. ARTIST 1, feat. ARTIST2[b].
  
• If you are streaming stuff where the artist is in the title field, this should work if you have multiple artists in the place where we parse the artist out, but AS won't check the remaining title for the "iTunes" way. I don't do any of the streaming, so I didn't want to touch the logic for parsing that with no way to test it.
  

So, let me know how this works.