[pkscout]

I have found in the wiki how to start script.artistslideshow in daemon mode :
http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Add...er_Screens

And your script can be called from another addon :
http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Add...ther_addon

But can I call it directly from the skin ? Or do I have to write an addon/script to call your addon/script ?

I don't think so. When we were working on the original external call mechanism, we tried it with just skin calls, but it never worked right. So if you want to do any integration without a song playing you'll have to write a script to do that integration.

@pkscuot : Your addon (and Ronnie's ) would be just perfect if you could allow this. Is it in the changelog of next version ?

I don't know what other users think about that, but for me, an easy way to make it work all together locally (with homepage slideshow) would be :

- What already exists, that is to say a local folder at artist level called "extrafanart" with fanart.jpg, fanart2.jpg, fanart3.jpg....for artists slideshow.

- A local folder at albums level (or at the same level as extrafanart if it is what you wanted) called "discography" with album, album2.jpg, album3.jpg...for artist's discography pictures

- An easy way to create simple nfos manually for "similar artists" and "bio" information (this would avoid having nfos full of http jpg adresses for pictures). Those nfo's could be placed in the artist or album folders too.

I'm hoping to get all this into the next version, but there may be an interim release to deal with one bug that needs to get addressed sooner rather than later. I'll also look at adding an override for similar artists. Just to warn you, that looks much more complication that the bio and album override.

Because of accented characters, you need to UTF8 encode strings :

Code:

xbmc.executebuiltin('XBMC.Notification("' + __language__(30300).encode("utf8") + '", "' + __language__(30301).encode("utf8") + '", 10000, ' + __addonicon__ + ')')

I'll add that to the bug list and fix it before releasing this with the French strings.