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Thankyou pkscout for a great add-on! I had a problem getting it working at all previously (posted in this thread but didn't get a reply), but now, having updated my skin, it's working...but I get some stuttering of audio during playback which seems to happen in relation to the artwork slideshow (if it doesn't find any artwork there is no stuttering).

It happens maybe one, two or three times per song, with the audio cutting out for just a half second or so - enough to be very annoying and spoiling the experience. I'm not doing anything else on the system at the same time (Visualisation is off, PVR isn't recording, library isn't updating).

Is this something that happens only on first use, when images are being downloaded? Should I look at storing the images on my NAS (where the music files are) instead of the Kodi box?

My system is:
Artist Slideshow 1.8.2
Skin is CCM Helix 3.0.15
OS is OpenElec 5.0.8 (which is Kodi 14.2)
ASUS Chromebox M031U Desktop (Celeron 2955U 1.4GHz, 4GB RAM, 16GB SSD)
My music files are stored on a local NAS (WD MyBooklive 3Tb)

I'd have to see a debug log file (make sure to turn on debug logging in AS and Kodi). I can't think of anything AS is doing that would ever cause an audio stutter. AS queries a few web sites, writes a couple small text files and, if there are images found, download them. That system doesn't strike me as underpowered, but it seems like there is IO contention somewhere.

Thanks pkscout - I think it was my NAS that was causing the problem, as it it locked up shortly afterwards. A reboot of the NAS seems to have fixed it.

However, I am wondering about how best to optimise use of your add-on. Should I leave it set to download the images downloaded on the box as it does by default, or should I use your other add-on to move them to the NAS? - I don't understand the pros/cons of this. How does your add-on work? Does it download the images from internet sources only on the first playing of an artist, and then they are stored locally forever and the add-on only looks externally when a new artist is played? Or are they downloaded from internet sources freshly every time that artist is played. I have a large music collection on the NAS, and there's much more storage space on there than the Chromebox which has Kodi. In time I may also add another Kodi instance in my house, in this case would storing the Artist Slidshow fanart centrally on the NAS be advantageous?