[pkscout]

I found the problem. Aeon MQ5 is really not calling AS the way it should be called if you use it in multiple screens. If you are using AS on multiple screens, you should really start it when the skin starts using the daemon mode. AS then initializes itself at startup and will happily tell any window where the currently playing artists' images are.

Aeon MQ5 starts AS in multiple locations, and up until now that had never caused any problems. While a second AS instance will quit if it discovers another instance running, it does do some initialization before that check is done. I moved the initial setting of the "empty" background into an area that runs before the check, so the second AS was setting the background to empty and then quitting. I have put some logic around that not to set the background if another instance of AS is running, but I can't say what else might happen in the future when skins call AS multiple times. The Aeon MQ5 folks really need to fix their skin for long term compatibility, as there is a limit to how much I'm going to hack up AS to fix skin specific issues.

v.1.6.8~beta1
- moved creation of ArtistSlideshowTransparent to after Window creation
- fix for skins that improperly call AS more than once

There are now two ways to get beta releases:

• via my beta channel repo (as noted now on the AS wiki page)
  
• via direct download
  

The direct download for 1.6.8~beta1 is at http://raw.github.com/pkscout/repository...~beta1.zip

Because it will make rolling back easier during testing, I'd strongly encourage you to use the beta repo.