[maartenl]

Have tried the new script, v1.5.4 and it is definitely an improvement! Thanks.

There's however still strange behaviour with artist that have special characters, e.g. José James, Cæcilie Norby etc. I discover in these cases artwork is downloaded to the local cache but not to the artist's remote folder (which resides on my NAS in this case and whose share is mounted through CIFS) as opposed to artists without special characters...

That would seem to indicate that AS is not finding the remote folder. I remember running into another problem is the code that ASCII and Unicode compares will always be false, so that might be the problem. It might also be a CIFS thing, as I don't have a separate server here and have never validated to code against artwork stored on another machine. For one of your problem artists, could you post a path to the remote folder. I'll try and duplicate something here to see if I can figure out what's going on.

Thanks for your help! Truly appreciate it. A path to which AS won't store artwork is: \\NAS4FREE\main\muziek\modern\João Gilberto\
As I said paths with no special characters e.g. \\NAS4FREE\main\muziek\modern\David Bowie\ give no problems.

UPDATE
Further test learns that AS won't store artwork in paths with 'special' characters but will read though!. When I play an artist with special character(s) in its name, the artwork is stored locally. When I subsequently manually move the locally stored artwork to the remote folder, it will read the artwork the next time I play that artist's music.

UPDATE II
I was to eager to post first update. After moving local artwork it seemed the script was reading the artwork remotely. But it seems the artwork was somewhere cached in memory. When changing artist and back, the script again makes a local artwork folder.