[pkscout]

Sometimes you get pictures for another wrong artist. For instance, if I press "i" when listening to "Aaron", i get album pictures for the right artist (that is to say the band named "Aaron") but also album pictures of "Aaron Eckhart". )

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I don't get the interest of gathering pictures of a wrong artist or double album covers (just because the scrapping is automatic and does not see the difference between "Queen" and "The good, the bad and the queen" for instance)

So my question is : for the discography feature, can we manually put album pictures in a specific folder so that we can personnaly chose the right ones for display ( I mean in the same way that we can create an extrafanart folder for artist slideshows) instead of using Last.fm or HT backdrops scrapers ?

Yea, I've noticed that. The Last.FM search is kind of fuzzy, and I don't think there is any easy way to fix the search to be more specific. Here's what I'm thinking about to allow local override:

• have another folder called discography at the same level as extrafanart
  
• images would be named using the convention number.name.ext (i.e. 1.Cold Spring Harbor.jpg) - this would allow you to order them how you want.
  
• you could also put a file in that directory called bio.nfo if you want a custom bio as well.
  
• Artist Slideshow would default to use the override if available, otherwise it would look for discography as usual. Because of the way the Last.FM search is done, I don't think it's reasonable (or desirable) to try and let users combined the two.
  

Thoughts?

So, my question is: Would it be possible to make it so that it WAITS to try to display remote images (or the progress image) UNTIL one is fully downloaded? That way, you won't have an interruption in the slideshow if you, like me, use both external and local fanart. So that, if you use both local and remote, the progress image simply doesn't show (if both local and remote images exist, that is).

It is not suppose to ever show the blank image if there is any local artwork. I'll take a look at that.

Artist Slideshow works perfectly with the Spotimc (Spotify) plugin as well. However, it ONLY works if you first go play some local music (from XBMC's music library), let it download an image, and then enter Spotimc.

I don't have a Spotify account, but if I can get a free one I'll see if I can get it setup and test on my end.