[cw-kid]

I installed v1.5.8.2 by manually copying over all the files in to the /storage/.xbmc/addons/script.artistslideshow folder and then rebooted the HTPC.

And I can confirm that if I play an album which is tagged as "Various Artists" only, then I still just get a blank / black box.

I see the issue. AS caches even a null response from MusicBrainz and won't check again for a few weeks. So until your current empty Various Artists MBID ages out, AS won't try and use the hard coded MBID. The way to resolve that is to find the Various Artists cache folder and delete it. Either that or just wait a couple weeks.

Hi

I think its working now, I deleted the folder(s) for the "Various Artists" which was:

\Userdata\addon_data\script.artistslideshow\ArtistInformation\121caa73
\Userdata\addon_data\script.artistslideshow\ArtistSlideshow\121caa73

I turned off the fallback option and removed that fallback folder I added, just so it wouldn't confuse things.

Now when I play an album tagged as artist-name = "Various Artists" the various artists fanart is now displayed by Artist SlideShow.

Think I will now use the fallback option with some generic music fanart images if I can find some good ones, as @devilshura suggested!

Thanks again!