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What I did this time was to open XBMC, let it initialize everything properly, enter Spotimc, selecting "Like a Rolling Stone" by Bob Dylan and going to the "Now Playing" screen, where Artist Slideshow is supposed to be. However, the background is just all black. I let it play for 1 minute just to make sure that it wasn't loading any pictures.

I then quit Spotimc, went into my local music library, played a random song with Jack Johnson, went to Now Playing and let the slideshow begin. I then stopped the track, went back into Spotimc and played the same Bob Dylan track. Now all of a sudden, the slideshow works as it's supposed to. So, you HAVE to play a local track first before entering Spotimc in order for the Artist Slideshow to work.

OK, I finally looked through the log. From what I can tell in the first instance the skin never runs Artist Slideshow. I think the skin means to start Artist Slideshow at startup in daemon mode and so doesn't call it when you go to full screen from Spotify. If you go to your local library first, I see Artist Slideshow is run in daemon mode and then keeps running when you go to Spotify. I noticed an error that might be causing this.

On line 1251 of the log I see this:

Code:

ERROR: unmatched parentheses in IsEmpty(Window(Home).Property(ArtistSlideShowLoaded)

Sure enough, there is a close parentheses missing in that statement. Without looking at the actual skin xml file, my bet is that the error is causing the skin to think Artist Slideshow isn't installed, which causes the skin to not try and load it. So, I hate to do this, but I'm going ask you to pass this one to the skin developer. If that's you, then at least it will be a short conversation.