[Dave.B]

Hi All
Since Upgrading to Mq7 I have sporadic errors in artists slideshow script. Can someone please help me fix this?

here is the log error:

22:15:15 T:2100 ERROR: CImageLoader:oWork - Direct texture file loading failed for special://masterprofile/Thumbnails/3/3f423f30.jpg
22:15:15 T:8972 ERROR: EXCEPTION Thrown (PythonToCppException) : -->Python callback/script returned the following error<--
- NOTE: IGNORING THIS CAN LEAD TO MEMORY LEAKS!
Error Type: <type 'exceptions.ValueError'>
Error Contents: No JSON object could be decoded
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\Bar-Tal\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\script.artistslideshow\default.py", line 1090, in <module>
slideshow = Main()
File "C:\Users\Bar-Tal\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\script.artistslideshow\default.py", line 186, in __init__
self._use_correct_artwork()
File "C:\Users\Bar-Tal\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\script.artistslideshow\default.py", line 1039, in _use_correct_artwork
self._get_local_images()
File "C:\Users\Bar-Tal\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\script.artistslideshow\default.py", line 498, in _get_local_images
self._get_artistinfo()
File "C:\Users\Bar-Tal\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\script.artistslideshow\default.py", line 289, in _get_artistinfo
bio, loglines = bio_plugins['objs'][plugin_name[1]].getBio( bio_params )
File "C:\Users\Bar-Tal\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\script.artistslideshow\resources\plugins\theaudiodb.py", line 71, in getBio
json_data = self._get_data( self.ARTISTFILEPATH, self.CACHEFILEPATH, url, url_params )
File "C:\Users\Bar-Tal\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\script.artistslideshow\resources\plugins\theaudiodb.py", line 178, in _get_data
self._get_audiodbid( ) # this is to generate the id file if it doesn't exist
File "C:\Users\Bar-Tal\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\script.artistslideshow\resources\plugins\theaudiodb.py", line 137, in _get_audiodbid
json_data = _json.loads( rawdata )
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Kodi\system\python\Lib\json\__init__.py", line 338, in loads
return _default_decoder.decode(s)
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Kodi\system\python\Lib\json\decoder.py", line 366, in decode
obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Kodi\system\python\Lib\json\decoder.py", line 384, in raw_decode
raise ValueError("No JSON object could be decoded")
ValueError: No JSON object could be decoded
-->End of Python script error report<--
22:15:21 T:2100 ERROR: CImageLoader:oWork - Direct texture file loading failed for special://masterprofile/Thumbnails/e/e98d4d2d.jpg
22:15:28 T:2100 ERROR: CImageLoader:oWork - Direct texture file loading failed for special://masterprofile/Thumbnails/4/41fee77f.jpg
22:15:34 T:2100 ERROR: CImageLoader:oWork - Direct texture file loading failed for special://masterprofile/Thumbnails/b/bd8a4fa5.jpg
22:15:40 T:6640 ERROR: Gif::GcbToFrame(): Could not read GraphicsControlBlock of frame 0 in file G:\CD Art\Minimal Compact\extrafanart\Minimal_Frejus[1].gif (reason unknown)