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Visualizations are a completely different beast. I actually looked at writing one, but I believe they have to be written in something like C++ and compiled for every platform. That was well outside my abilities. When I found AS it was already a mature plugin, so I volunteered to take over the maintenance and add new features. Most folks do one of two things. They either use a skin that has AS support built in or make a copy of the Confluence skin, modify it (including changing the name and ID of the skin in addon.xml), and then don't have to worry every time XBMC is upgraded.

I see. Thanks for the explanation. Is it possible to get the Confluence skin modified to support AS?

Is it possible to put the modified fies into my userdata directory instead of the XBMC installation folder? If so, how?

There is a bug with AS in Frodo. In Eden to see AS I would select "Visualisation: None". If I selected another visualization I would see that visualization. In Frodo I see AS overlaid over the selected visualisation. I don't like this for 2 reasons: (1) there are times when I would just like to have one of the other visualisations; (2) I was hoping, perhaps incorrectly, that AS would be inactive and not fetching images and bios when another visualisation was running. [There are times when I would prefer not to be broadcasting to the internet what songs I'm listening too.]

At a bare minimum, when AS is installed it needs to tell the user of need to manually install these customized skin files.

I will look to see what it would take to do that. I know the Hulu plugin posts a prompt after every upgrade of the plugin, so I might be able to adapt that.

It is upgrades of XBMC that are more often the problem. Anyway all I am proposing is that you put some text on the information screen that is shown when you browse or install the plug-in that informs users that if they use Confluence they need to download and install some files and give a link to those files. Umm, can't the add-on installer automatically install the files?

Where can I find the Hulu plugin? I did not find it in the add-ons listed in the standard repository browsed from XBMC/Frodo.