2013-02-21, 21:45
There's a new beta version available (1.5.1). I would greatly appreciate it if some folks would test this on their systems, as I had a number of crashes when recoding this. I've been running it on my system for 3 hours with no issues now, but I'd like some other data points.
v.1.5.1
- fixed bug on Windows where once override or fallback were set they could not be unset
- changed artist bio download so it downloads even if just showing the override images
- updated artist bio infolabel to filter out link to READ MORE on last.fm
- changed to using JSON call to get artist array from XBMC rather than manually splitting
- new language files for Danish and Italian
- updated addon.xml with new information and format for repo database
https://github.com/pkscout/script.artist...master.zip
There are two substantive changes to note.
First, for music playing with the built-in player (that's most everything), AS now gets a list of artists back from XBMC. That means if your scraper is able to split out multiple artists, AS will now respect that. For streams (where the artist is often in the title) and addons that call AS, AS still does a manual parse, but I won't be trying to keep that up-to-date. The manual parser will continue to support slash separated artists (i.e. ' / ') as well as feat. and ft.
Second, if you are using the override or fallback folder settings, you need to go into the updated settings file and re-enable them. Your path will still be there, but now you have a radio button you have to enable as well. That fixed an issue (at least on Windows) where once you set that path you couldn't unset it without resetting all the settings.
Please note that if you are using a non-English install the settings will be lacking two descriptions. I'm waiting on Transifex to get my changes and for the translators to update the strings.
And just as a point of interest, moving forward AS versions ending in odd numbers (like 1.5.1) will be beta/test versions. Even numbers will go into the official repo. That way if you are testing for me you will get the production release without having to do anything special.
v.1.5.1
- fixed bug on Windows where once override or fallback were set they could not be unset
- changed artist bio download so it downloads even if just showing the override images
- updated artist bio infolabel to filter out link to READ MORE on last.fm
- changed to using JSON call to get artist array from XBMC rather than manually splitting
- new language files for Danish and Italian
- updated addon.xml with new information and format for repo database
https://github.com/pkscout/script.artist...master.zip
There are two substantive changes to note.
First, for music playing with the built-in player (that's most everything), AS now gets a list of artists back from XBMC. That means if your scraper is able to split out multiple artists, AS will now respect that. For streams (where the artist is often in the title) and addons that call AS, AS still does a manual parse, but I won't be trying to keep that up-to-date. The manual parser will continue to support slash separated artists (i.e. ' / ') as well as feat. and ft.
Second, if you are using the override or fallback folder settings, you need to go into the updated settings file and re-enable them. Your path will still be there, but now you have a radio button you have to enable as well. That fixed an issue (at least on Windows) where once you set that path you couldn't unset it without resetting all the settings.
Please note that if you are using a non-English install the settings will be lacking two descriptions. I'm waiting on Transifex to get my changes and for the translators to update the strings.
And just as a point of interest, moving forward AS versions ending in odd numbers (like 1.5.1) will be beta/test versions. Even numbers will go into the official repo. That way if you are testing for me you will get the production release without having to do anything special.
