[pkscout]

On my media centre I've been getting a blank background for a while (over a month) so yesterday I reset it to the defaults, cleared the cache manually and rebooted the machine. Since then I have noticed that artist slide show has decided that after a while it will stop updating the images - usually after watching a TV show between two albums. It continues to display the last artists imagery for evermore until a reboot.

What I have noticed is that in the log "script.artistslideshow: script stopped" appears after the last song which gets displayed, then if you try to run the script manually (from the Programs menu) it shows the following, but specifically "script.artistslideshow: script already running" - now looking through the code the check is made against "self.ARTISTSLIDESHOWRUNNING" - however unless I'm missing something (my Python skills are pretty non-existant so that is possible) that isn't cleared when it drops out the main while loop - is that possibly the cause?

I think I found the problem, but since you cut out part of the log, I'm going to have to make an assumption about what you did. I believe what you did was go straight from listening to music to playing a TV show and didn't stop the music first. I'm pretty sure that use case generates an XBMC abort request instead of a player stop (or at least it does for you). The logic branch for the XBMC abort request didn't clear the info label properly, so I fixed that. You can get an updated version here. This bug has been there for quite awhile, so I'm not going to push an official release just for this unless I get a bunch more people reporting the problem. The fix will get incorporated into the next release.

P.S. Please don't post logs (or chunks of logs) to the forum. It makes the post and the log snippet almost impossible to read. You can use xmbclogs.com to post logs. And please don't cut out parts of the log, as it makes it hard to tell what's really going on.