[pkscout]

New Beta Available

v.1.5.3.009
- widened tolerance on 16:9 proportion check from last.fm
- musicbrainz lookup now validates artist based on releases, recordings, then works
- updated musicbrainz search to better deal with featured artists
- updated musicbrainz search to work with add-ons that call AS remotely
- fixed bug where cached images wouldn't be merged for featured artists

You can get it at https://github.com/pkscout/script.artist...master.zip

A note about the updates for the external add-on support. Your external add-on can now call AS and pass skin label names for album name and MusicBrainz ID. The MusicBrainz information can contain a comma delimited list of MusicBrainz IDs that are in the same order as the artists for the song. Neither album nor MusicBrainz ID are required, but the album is highly recommend if possible, as it makes the MusicBrainz search faster.

The call for AS would now look something like this:

Code:

artistslideshow = "RunScript(script.artistslideshow,windowid=%s&artistfield=%s&titlefield=%s&albumfield=%s&mbidfield=%s)"
        % (xbmcgui.getCurrentWindowId(), "CURRENTARTIST", "CURRENTTITLE", "CURRENTALBUM", "CURRENTMBID")