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Well I hope you finish - images for discography, great job,

So this is what happens when you take over maintaining a plugin and haven't parsed through all the code. It does things you don't know about. After looking through the properties code and back at the documentation, I realized Artist Slideshow already exposes a URL for album thumbnails. It doesn't download the thumbs, but if you add the property to the skin, XBMC caches it after the download. Here's an example:

Code:

<control type="image" id="1003">
    <description>Artist Album Art</description>
    <posx>300</posx>
    <posy>31</posy>
    <width>100</width>
    <height>100</height>
    <texture>$INFO[Window(Visualisation).Property(ArtistSlideshow.1.AlbumThumb)]</texture>
    <visible>!IsEmpty(Window(Visualisation).Property(ArtistSlideshow.1.AlbumThumb))</visible>        
</control>

There is a property for each album, so Window(Visualisation).Property(ArtistSlideshow.1.AlbumThumb) gets the first album, Window(Visualisation).Property(ArtistSlideshow.2.AlbumThumb) gets you the second, etc. The actual thumbnail is 300 x 300 pixels. In the example above I scaled it down to 100 x 100 pixels.

So I think this request is done now. I've updated the Confluence skin files to include a four album discography. The link in the second post of this thread is still valid if you want to get the updated files.

@Wanilton, I think I'm done with any updates that will require changes to strings.xml, so when you get a chance could you update the translation you're doing? Once I have that and sit on the rest of this a few days during testing, I'll be ready to do another official release.