[pkscout]

Apologies if this is a daft question, I'm relatively new to the workings of OpenELEC! My issue is that when this is running in fullscreen, the image for the fanart comes up, as in the fanart that appears in the background whenever selecting a track. But then when the new image fades in, it fades in halfway, the original image can still be seen regardless of which image comes in on top, and never goes away. Is there a setting on OpenELEC for deactivating the fanart while Artist Slideshow is running, would that do it? Or is it something more obscure? Many thanks in advance, superb addon.

Assuming you're using the default Confluence skin, you need to display Background FanArt. Do that by going to SYSTEM -> SETTINGS -> APPEARANCE. In the skin section look for the item that says SETTINGS. Then under BACKGROUND OPTIONS enable HIDE BACKGROUND FANART. The bad news is that disables background fanart everywhere. I've never found a better way to deal with this, but perhaps others have suggestions.

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However the Artist SlideShow box is empty / blank in both skins so can we add this please as a feature request or fix if it should be displaying the generic "Various Artists" images

OK, now I see what's happening. There is a MusicBrainz entry for Various Artists, but with the number of albums in there, I suspect in many cases AS is choking trying to find a match. I'm hesitant to add Various Artists as a special case in the code, but I do see the value in getting this information. Let me tinker a bit and see how I feel about the necessary code modifications.

In the short term you can get these images to display by manually downloading them from fanart.tv and putting them in a local directory. Then if you have AS set to use one of the options that includes local images, the Various Artists images would show when appropriate.