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Hey PKscout,

Im having an issue with your addon. When Kodi goes from one artist to another, your addon sometimes comes up with an error and then then fanart doesnt change anymore.

This bit is from the log, the last time it happend. Im running kodi 16.3 and the new beta version from your repo.

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21:45:39.308 T:138254668880 ERROR: EXCEPTION Thrown (PythonToCppException) : -->Python callback/script returned the following error<--
- NOTE: IGNORING THIS CAN LEAD TO MEMORY LEAKS!
Error Type: <type 'exceptions.UnicodeDecodeError'>
Error Contents: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xf3 in position 7: invalid continuation byte
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/storage/emulated/0/Android/data/org.xbmc.kodi/files/.kodi/addons/script.artistslideshow/default.py", line 1100, in <module>
slideshow = Main()
File "/storage/emulated/0/Android/data/org.xbmc.kodi/files/.kodi/addons/script.artistslideshow/default.py", line 192, in __init__
self._use_correct_artwork()
File "/storage/emulated/0/Android/data/org.xbmc.kodi/files/.kodi/addons/script.artistslideshow/default.py", line 1043, in _use_correct_artwork
self._get_local_images()
File "/storage/emulated/0/Android/data/org.xbmc.kodi/files/.kodi/addons/script.artistslideshow/default.py", line 521, in _get_local_images
self._get_artistinfo()
File "/storage/emulated/0/Android/data/org.xbmc.kodi/files/.kodi/addons/script.artistslideshow/default.py", line 295, in _get_artistinfo
bio, loglines = bio_plugins['objs'][plugin_name[1]].getBio( bio_params )
File "/storage/emulated/0/Android/data/org.xbmc.kodi/files/.kodi/addons/script.artistslideshow/resources/plugins/kodi.py", line 22, in getBio
bio = _json.loads(response).get( 'result', {} ).get( 'item', {} ).get( 'description', '' )
File "/home/jenkins/workspace/Android-ARM64/tools/depends/xbmc-depends/aarch64-linux-android-android-21/lib/python2.7/json/__init__.py", line 339, in loads
File "/home/jenkins/workspace/Android-ARM64/tools/depends/xbmc-depends/aarch64-linux-android-android-21/lib/python2.7/json/decoder.py", line 364, in decode
File "/home/jenkins/workspace/Android-ARM64/tools/depends/xbmc-depends/aarch64-linux-android-android-21/lib/python2.7/json/decoder.py", line 380, in raw_decode
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xf3 in position 7: invalid continuation byte
-->End of Python script error report<--
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Hope you can help.