[Douganator]

In Kodi, the Universal Artist Scraper downloads fanart for artists in the music library. Can or should the Artist Slideshow be using these images first before downloading its own fanart images? I can not find info on how to make this happen.

Unfortunately, there doesn't appear to be any way to ask Kodi to provide the internal image for the playing artist. Depending on your skin and settings, you can kind of trick it. In the AS Slideshow settings check off the option that says "use transport background if no artists are found." Now if you have your skin set to display the artist image in the background when in full screen, that image will most likely show through if no images are found.

I keep getting issues with black screens with some common artists, artists that already have fanart downloaded by the Artist Scraper.

If you could enable Kodi debugging *and* the debug logging in AS and try some of those, I can see if I can figure out what's happening. For the tests to be useful, you need to go into your Kodi userdata folder and find addon_data/script.artistslideshow/ArtistInformation. Delete that folder so that AS will try and download the information again. If you don't do that, AS waits a couple of weeks before updating information.

I guess I kinda thought that Kodi uses some kind of database that links fanart to the artists and that AS would share this database. That way, loading of the fanart would be instant and AS could then download more images if available.
Thanks for your reply and I will have a bit more of a play.