[cw-kid]

Hi

I just installed V1.6.3.2 on my OpenElec HTPC, I removed the Linux OS Mount to my music folder on the WHS file server. I then changed the AS setting "Local Artist Folder" to be an SMB path e.g. SMB://WHS/MUSIC

For good measure, I then removed the artist folders I was about to play, from the local AS cache. So I would know the images displayed by AS were local images from the WHS file server using the new SMB path etc.

So I deleted these folders from the XBMC PC:

\Userdata\addon_data\script.artistslideshow\ArtistSlideshow\9711592d
\Userdata\addon_data\script.artistslideshow\ArtistInformation\9711592d

I then played this particular artist in XBMC. AS then displayed OK the images from the extrafanart sub-folder on my file server for this particular artist.

So it appears to be working! You can now use an SMB path for "local" fanart images. Nice one!

Note: The 9711592d artist folder only got recreated in the \ArtistInformation\ folder. It did not get recreated in the \ArtistSlideshow folder.
Not sure if that was expected? I was expecting it to have recreated the artist hash folder in both ArtistInformation and ArtistSlideShow folders.
I have got AS set to use both Local and Remote images.


Regarding something else, I have a strange issue and not just with this last version of AS its been happening for quite some time.

For some reason on the OpenElec HTPC I seem to have two ArtistSlideShow folders:

As seen in FileZilla:



As seen in Windows Explorer:



Looking in FileZilla one of the ArtistSlideShow folders is always empty, the other contains the hashed artists sub-folders. If I delete the empty one it always comes back eventually.

This issue causes problems viewing the contents of the ArtistSlideShow folder in Windows Explorer via the OpenElec Samba shares.

its very odd.

Thanks