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Should Artist SlideShow display images when playing a "Various Artists" album ? I seem to recall it did in Aeon MQ4 but in MQ5 its all just blank.

The skin is however displaying a 'Various Artsits' fanart image on the main XBMC menu OK, again AS is blank.

AS does look ups based on what XBMC passes for the artist name. So if the album artist is VARIOUS ARTISTS, that's what AS will attempt to find (and probably fail at). If the album artist is empty and the individual artist has the artists actual name, then you have a better chance of getting art for that artist. I don't use Aeon MQ4, but my bet is they are not using AS to display the stuff on the main menu. You'd need to check with the author(s) on that though.

Hi Pkscuot, thanks for the reply and I hope you are well!

Looking in to playing compilation albums and doing some more testing.

Two examples:

1. If I play a compilation album and if the MP3 tag for Album Artist is set to "Various Artists" and also if each individual track has their Artist tags also set to "Various Artists" in this case Artist SlideShow display's no images at all.




2. If I play a compilation album and if the MP3 tag for Album Artist is set to "Various Artists" but if also on each individual track, if their Artist tags are actually set to contain the name of the artist, then Artist SlideShow will display OK (If available remotely on Fanart.tv?) image(s) for that artist whilst that track is playing from the compilation album.



With regard to compilation albums tagged liked example number 1. If you look on Fanart.tv here there is a "Various Artists" entry. That has generic background fanart images for "Various Artists". I would have expected Artist SlideShow to have displayed these images when playing an album tagged as in the example number 1.

And possibly for example number 2. some logic that if it knows its a compilation album but there are no on-line remote images available for a particular track / artist, that it might also display the generic Various Artists images? Better than a black empty box?



Please let me know if you need me to post a debug log file whilst playing the album in the example number 1. ?

Many thanks