[Rouzax]

arnt there more sources to get art from that you can add in the addon to split the load? further if i have setup an amount of images and they are downloaded why should i need to get more , so maybe can it be changed or entred in settings that if you find an set amount of images in the art folder that it doesnt go to download images again? in my case when i have set an amount of images in the settings to lets say 10 fanart backgrounds i dont need to download more i just want the addon to play what is in the local art map..and i think lots of people that dont need dl new and more images all the time when they have some local stored images . that would already be les load on those site right? and yes you can set that you only want to use local images but when some new tracks are added i stil want to download images to fill the art folder 1 time if i have no images yet but doing it once is better then doing it over and over again

In the beginning there were four sources for images: last.fm, htbackdrops, the audiodb, and fanart.tv. Then last.fm stopped providing images via their API to reduce network load. Then htbackdrops went down for quite some time, and when it came back it no longer had API access for anything. So we're down to two, with one offline right now because they don't have money to pay for bandwidth. Anyone else, seeing a pattern? If you don't monetarily support the image sites that make AS possible, they go away. I know of no other sources for images, but if anyone wants to suggest one I can certainly look into it. But I will only add image sources if I have a guarantee from the community that they will give money to support the new sites.

I could implement a max image setting, but theaudiodb only stores three images. So unless I set the max by default to 2 or less, it won't make any difference. A vast majority of artists on fanart.tv have five or six images (or less) so again, your example of 10 (a very reasonable number) would have basically no impact.

Would it be an idea to have the option to use Google and Flickr?
I know that it would not be a sure fire result but to be honest I would prefer anything above an empty screen