2013-07-02, 04:19
(2013-07-01, 11:05)cw-kid Wrote: Turning off the extrafanart option in the skin for music, resolves the problem in that when in full screen mode each of the artists we were testing with, then shows the correct background image.
However I then obviously lose the rotating extrafanart feature for those artists that have an extrafanart sub-folder on the file server.
Seems like an issue with the skin ?
So the problem appears to be this - that if I have the extrafanart option for music turned on in the skin, and if I play an artist that happens to NOT have an extrafanart sub-folder present on the file server then when in music playback full screen the artist fanart shown is that of the last artist played and not the currently playing artist. Where the last artist played did have an extrafanart sub-folder present.
This is not the case however when on the XBMC main music menu, the artist fanart there is displayed correctly if the artist has an extrafanart sub-folder present or not. Only seems to be in full screen mode the issue occurs.
I would tend to agree it's a skin issue. My bet is that in fullscreen mode they have the extrafanart showing on top of the AS slideshow. If they change the order if those, then AS would play on top. If I can find some time I will download the skin and take a look.
To your other question, if you set AS to use both local and remote artwork, then the stuff in your extrafanart folder would show up in addition to the downloaded stuff when you're in fullscreen mode. The path you want to set in the settings in the parent directory of all the artists. So if you have your stuff setup locally as server\\drive/music/<artist>/extrafanart/ then you would want to set AS to server\\drive/music/
(2013-07-01, 22:42)scott967 Wrote: Need some tagging advice for Artist Slideshow comparability.
I'm currently on 1.5.2, sort have been watching 1.5.3 progress. My problem is that I have many Korean and Japanese artists. It seems like to get art from Last.FM you often need to have the song artist in Hangul or Katakana characters, but in most cases on Musicbrainz they will use Latin characters (but it is kind of hit or miss). For my own benefit I have entered tags with artist and album MBIDs, but I guess nothing in XBMC or addons read these so no help for this. Last.FM typically has the best results for me so I would like to keep ability to have Artist Slideshow query that source if possible. Any suggestions or pointers? I have played with editing the nfos that Artist Slideshow creates but that's kind of slow going.
1.5.3 will maintain all the last.fm functionality, so you could just leave it the way it is and you'll keep getting all the artwork, bios, and albums from last.fm. The other option is that if you can somehow get the musicbrainz ID for the given artist into the right place in the XBMC database (no, I don't know what the right place is), then in theory AS 1.5.3 will read that by using a JSON request to get it from XBMC. The thing is, I can't really test that code, as I don't have any artists that have the musicbrainz ID scraped and in the database. I believe that is suppose to be coming in XBMC 13, so I tried to code for that possibility.
You might also try going to Musicbrainz and searching for an artist using the native characters. If the list you get back includes the Latin version of the artist, check and see if that artist has the native character spelling as an alias. If so, AS will try and match on that as well.
The reality is that the Musicbrainz support I'm writing is a stop gap until XBMC scrapes that as part of the library import and update process. So it'll probably never been as good as or as flexible as the real thing. Given htbackdrops.com went away, I just couldn't wait another 6 months (or more) for the next major release of XBMC to add new services.
