[pkscout]

Hi,

Artist slideshow has been working fine, but after upgrading to v2, I get text notifications saying that its downloading images and then says no images found for artist. When I look in the downloaded image file folder there just empty directories.

Does anyone have any ideas of what is going on? I loved it when it was working and would really like to get it working again.

Thanks

Debug log or I can't help (make sure debugging is on in Kodi *and* the AS addon).

Two things:

1- With 2.0 the decision was made (with input from some of the Kodi folks) that AS would no longer try and find a MusicBrainzID for an artist. AS was generating a huge amount of traffic and causing significant issues for the MusicBrainz folks. So if you have not added the MusicBrainz info to your music using something like MusicBrainz Picard (and updated your library), the only service you can use is htbackdrops (for images, for artist bio, you're limited to last.fm). Once you tag your music using MusicBrainz Picard, then AS can get the MusicBrainz ID from Kodi and start downloading stuff from fanart.tv and theaudiodb.

2- htbackdrops is currently offline (as has been for the last week or so). In fact, if you enable htbackdrops in 2.0, it will crash AS. So don't do that. The 2.0.1 beta is available from my beta repo (see a few posts up), and it fixes the crash. It obviously doesn't fix the issue that htbackdrops is offline.