[pkscout]

With the death of last.FM images, I am sort of keen on protecting the artists images in my artist slideshow cache. I have created a local artist/extrafanart tree but I am wondering is there anyway to get from the hash back to artist so I can merge the cache into my local artist tree?

I don't think so. The call that creates the cache name is really meant to be a one way thing. Given the number of people in a similar boat as you, I think I'm going to whip up something that will, through brute force, rename the folders to the artist name. It will be a separate add-on and probably won't be submitted to the official repo. If I just do renaming, you'd have to manually merge them, but I think I could set it up where you tell the script where you want the files dumped and then it would pull them from the cache and put them in the right place. I'm a little nervous about that though, as it would never be perfect.

I suspect it will be the end of the year before I can get to a project like this though.