[capfuturo]

Um, not really.

In theory the override slideshow option shouldn't keep the bio from showing correctly, and I just checked the code to make sure. By deleting the addon_data folder for AS, you mostly reset it to factory default. AS is complicated enough now that it is possible that some set of settings are somehow conflicting, or that the upgrade from 1.5.3 to 1.5.4 just didn't go well for you.

Anyway, I'm glad stuff is working for you.

BTW, the actual order of searching for the MBID is:

1- ask XBMC
2- check for the .nfo file
3- ask MusicBrainz (via the logic I provided before)

That way once an artist MBID has been found and cached, AS doesn't have to ever ask for it again. If AS doesn't find one, after a couple of weeks it will try again. Retrying every time slows things down and is hard on the MusicBrainz server.

Good afternoon pkscuot,

Thanks for your reply and the additional info that might help further. However there has been no success in retrieving the TheAudioDB bio besides 'Tori Amos''. I uninstalled AS, erased all the user database and started from scratch to no avail. The rest of the bios keep coming ridiculously cut and in most cases unreadable with no logic in it due to random truncation of the original text in Last.fm. I have done a new test (more of the same really) whilst playing a very well known artists called 'Marillion'. According to the log, XBMC handles the artist name correctly to AS, however AS can't do a MBID match and continues to look for local NFOs... and ends up getting the Las.fm bio.

Full debug log here

Questions:

1. Is there no way to get the MBID from the ID tags embedded in the track that is being played, if it does exist [the MBID tag]? Can XBMC handle that to AS, can't it?
   
2. If AS clearly mishandles the name of the artist and no MBID match is being done, why not having AS getting the artist's MBID from XBMC in first place before asking for the artist name?
   
3. I believe AS could even get the MBID by just checking the tags in the local track being played, right?
   

Thank you for bearing with me on this!