[Hetoft]

Cool. Here's the first debug log - of me opening XBMC, browsing my music, playing first Macy Gray and then Mos Def. Both times the same thing happens: a local image appears for around 5 seconds, and then it goes on to display the progress image for maybe 10 seconds, until the first remote image is downloaded. From that point on, it works as it should and doesn't display the progress image again.

http://xbmclogs.com/show.php?id=5927

I'm using XBMC Eden with Aeon Nox 3.0.1. Also tried with a recent nightly. Using latest Artist Slideshow available from the official XBMC repo.
These are my Artist Slideshow settings. In the "Background" folder I have one 1920x1080 JPEG image.

Code:

<settings>
    <setting id="artistinfo" value="true" />
    <setting id="fallback_path" value="C:\Program Files (x86)\XBMC\portable_data\userdata\addon_data\script.artistslideshow\background\" />
    <setting id="fanart_folder" value="" />
    <setting id="hd_aspect_only" value="false" />
    <setting id="htbackdrops" value="true" />
    <setting id="language" value="11" />
    <setting id="lastfm" value="true" />
    <setting id="local_artist_path" value="C:\hetoft-hdd\Music\" />
    <setting id="max_cache_size" value="4096" />
    <setting id="minheight" value="0" />
    <setting id="minwidth" value="700" />
    <setting id="priority" value="2" />
    <setting id="progress_path" value="C:\Program Files (x86)\XBMC\portable_data\userdata\addon_data\script.artistslideshow\background\" />
    <setting id="restrict_cache" value="false" />
    <setting id="show_progress" value="true" />
    <setting id="slideshow_path" value="" />
</settings>