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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.

That's the expected behavior with your configuration. If AS finds a local folder and you are using local/remote images, it just uses the local folder for images. It never creates the cache directory in ArtistSlideshow. Artist information is always stored in the cache, so that always gets created.

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

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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.

I can't think what would be causing that, and I've not seen it on my OSX or Windows machine. If you can catch a debug log of the extra folder being created, I'll be happy to take a look.

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I have a problem with Artist Slideshow occasionally crashing on startup with Gotham Beta 3 with a "RuntimeError: access_violation" error.
Please see the error log: http://xbmclogs.com/show.php?id=171746 for details.

I'll have to look at it in more detail, but it looks like xbmc.Player().isPlayingAudio() isn't returning what it should. The only thing I can really do is trap for the error and assume music is still playing. That would, in theory, stop that crash.

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Can someone help me troubleshoot why some artists will not work with this plugin? I have chosen a fallback show, have local fanart available for the artists and have chosen a combination of local and remote files. The screen remains blank in fullscreen view using Aeon Nox Gotham. Only a select few will not initiate the slideshow.

A debug log would be helpful. The Aeon Nox folks are doing some interesting things with AS that are outside the scope of the addon, and sometimes that makes it hard to troubleshoot, but I'll give it a shot.