[pkscout]

Do you have any plan to add back support for bios, etc? I'm really missing them.

Probably not. The new Estuary layout leaves much less unclaimed space (remember that I have to leave space for the album art if the user brings that up). The goal for the Estuary mod was always to make the smallest possible changes. I'll take another look, but I just don't think there's space without completely redesigning the music visualization screen.

Artist images are translucent and blended with the selected visualization. While this is sometimes what you want, I'd like to be able to have the images displayed without the blended visualization. This was possible in Kodi 16/Confluence. I tried turning off the visualization but the images are still blended with the remaining static background leading to very muddy pictures.

I honestly wouldn't use a visualization and AS together. As you've found, it technically works, but I find it mostly looks like crap. I'm unable to duplicate the issue with the images blending with the background. I know you're doing a git sync to get my skin. That is neither recommended nor supported. I remember there was a problem at one point with the image blending, but I fixed it. The only thing I can figure is that your git sync didn't get everything correctly. I HIGHLY recommend you download the repo linked in the AS wiki and then use it to install my Estuary mod.

AS does not show fanart in stored in the Kodi database or music folders. E.g, I have some artists for which AS displays no images at all yet when I look at those artists' information in Kodi I see fanart and thumbs. There are also folder.jpg (the thumb) and fanart.jpg in the artists' folders in my music library because I once exported the music library. I.e., the music files are organized as <Artist>/<Album>/<track ...> and the <Artist> folder contains these files. I don't know why AS no longer finds the images in its on-line sources. Kodi once found them.

The images in the Kodi database are not accessible by addons, at least not as far as I have found. The only way the fanart in your music folders will be accessible is if you set Kodi to use local only OR local/remote images and point AS to your music folder. You also need to check the settings to tell AS to use the fanart.jpg if available. That will pollute your music folder with more images and folders, but if you're OK with that, that will do it.