(2013-06-04, 00:47)pkscuot Wrote: This add-on was never meant to be an artwork downloader. There are add-ons (like one called Artwork Downloader) available if you want to collect and download artwork. On a more technical level, items downloaded to the local images directory are excluded from the cache manager (meaning they will never be deleted). I really don't want to stick lots of stuff in a place that I'm not managing for space, so that's why if no existing local images are found the images get stored in the default location. Also, stuff in the default location is stored using hashes of the artist name. I didn't want those polluting someone's artist directory, and I didn't want to have to deal with creating directories with special characters that the various file systems don't allow.
Ah, I see. Thanks for the answer. I've got a follow on question - if a user has high res, 16:9 pictures in extrafanart (maybe on a read only network share) that they use as menu backdrops - is it possible to configure Artist Slideshow to use these pictures and then also use downloaded not-so-high res pictures of variable aspect ratios without saving them to the local image folder (and so avoiding them being used as backdrops)?
Oh and something else I've noticed with last.fm pictures whilst trying to work out what to set the minimum height configuration to. For artists with large amounts of pics (eg Beck) I found a high setting useful to exclude low res pics, but for more obscure artists (eg Mansun) I wanted to specify a lower setting as a high setting tended to leave me with only a few pictures, or sometimes non at all. Would something like being able to independently specify minimum dimensions for artists with less than X pictures from those with greater than X pictures be useful, or maybe downloading pictures in descending order of size?
