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Is there a recommended way to provide alternate names for artists? For example I have a lot of Japanese artists which I tag as, e.g, "天満敦子 [Atsuko Temma]". AS doesn't find art for any artists tagged this way. Is there some way I can tag these such that AS will search for 天満敦子 and Atsuko Temma without making it appear as if there are 2 separate artists on the recording.

There is not. AS uses the artist information provided by Kodi, and that assumes each artist is represented only once. The only thing I can suggest is that you manually find the MusicBrainz ID for the artist in question and include that in the tags of your music file (it has to be called MusicBrainz Artist ID). Kodi will pick that up and add it to the database and then share that with AS.

What is the best way to indicate orchestra and conductor so AS can find art for the orchestra and art for the conductor. I've been using "orchestra, conductor" but nothing is found. I can separate them with NUL (rendered as "/" by Kodi) but in many cases these really aren't 2 separate independent artists. Often the orchestra, conductor pair defines an era for a long-lived orchestra. It would be very good if AS could find pictures of the orchestra from that era.

AS does not support orchestra or conductor. It only supports artist information in the artist field or as a featured artist in the title of the song.

I've never seen what you're describing. All the display code in the Estuary mod is in MusicVisualization.xml. Feel free to make whatever changes you'd like to get it to look the way you want.

Maybe it is something device/OS specific. What do you test on? I'm using a Mac Mini running macOS 10.12.3.

I use a Mac for all my development and testing and a Windows machine for my main HTPC.