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Hi pkscuot, just to tell you a little bug I noticed about local override folder, and most particularly about dicography albums handmade with nfo files and thumbnails well set up in override folder.

I am using the official skin Ace of Marcos Qui on Android Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 10" (x86 architecture) and the latest (today's) XBMC Gotham nightly build. I linked with smb protocol my tab with a homemade media server (windows se7en) where all my music is stored. All is working pretty well (including your script) excepting the override folder.

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But if I copy the "Music folder" directly on the sd card of my tab (with just the override folder of each artist on it it), then just change the path on :

-Override folder : sdcard/blablabla/...../Music

It works ! The good local pictures of the artist discography are used.

Technically Artist Slideshow doesn't display any images or text at all. It provides information to the skin, and then the skin displays all that. What I've seen is that if you try and display an image or directory of images from a smb link within XBMC, nothing ever shows. If the images are local, or you can mount the drive on your local system and point to it that way, then it works. I think that's the same problem you are having here, and I've never found another work around other than locally mounting the external file system. I'm just not sure how to (or if you can) do that on Android.

To try and confirm this, go to your skin and try and select a folder of images to display in the background of one of your home menu items. If you point that to a smb share, I'm relatively sure you'll get nothing.

Okay thanks for the heads up ! : : but allow me to think that you're wrong on this

I just make Ace displaying all my artworks, and extrafanarts for artists on the home menu via a samba share.

It's really weird because I use a folder named "slideshow" within each artist folder and containing extrafanarts with Artist slideshow and this works. Looks like only the override folder (and nfo and jpg files within it) are concerned. I'm quite lost on this, but if you say that you can't for the moment make it better I understand