Release Artist Slideshow addon (with skin and addon integration)
(2018-03-22, 04:43)pkscout Wrote:
(2018-03-21, 19:18)Powerhouse Wrote:
(2018-03-21, 04:09)pkscout Wrote:  If you're using my Estuary mod, the artist bio isn't displayed anywhere.  Nor are the artist albums or similar albums shown.  If you're using another skin that supports AS, you might want to check with the skin author.  AS basically just dumps all the information somewhere a skin can use it.  How it gets implemented is up to the skin author.  
Couldn't you set it up to save this information under the Artists folder (or Sub-folder)? So Skin authors have a standard location where to find this information? Similar to how CULyrics creates a folder under the Artists called Lyrics, or Artist Slideshow uses the extrafanart folder under the Artist to store extra fanart.  
Sorry, I should have been clearer.  AS sets a series of window properties that any skin can use.  So AS is already providing skin authors a set of standard things they can plug into their skins.  Where the actual data is stored on the disk is controlled by AS, but it doesn't really matter, as AS reads it as needed and, again, puts it someplace the skin author can easily get to. 
 So AS does store the data somewhere, but you say it doesn't really matter. When in fact, it does matter.

Since I have multiple Kodi installs around the house, this means that each install, will have to re-download this data again. So it now takes up space on my devices (since AS is keeping the data locally, instead of on my NAS), it's more of a burden to the makers of said data (since they will have multiple machines trying to grab that data, and someone needs to pay their bandwidth bills), and there is no place for me to locate said data, (to add, edit, or whatever) to that information.

Having this data stored in the location the rest of the Artist data is, just makes a whole lot more sense for everyone.
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New Test Version Available - by pkscout - 2012-03-08, 16:26
[No subject] - by mardup - 2012-03-10, 12:26
[No subject] - by pkscout - 2012-03-11, 01:35
RE: - by mardup - 2012-03-12, 17:50
RE: - by pkscout - 2012-03-13, 03:22
New Beta Version for Testing - by pkscout - 2012-07-13, 17:54
New Beta Version for Testing - by pkscout - 2012-07-14, 22:50
Pull Request for v1.4 Submitted - by pkscout - 2012-07-20, 23:01
New Beta Version for Testing - by pkscout - 2012-08-10, 03:18
New Frodo BETA Support Files - by pkscout - 2012-11-21, 06:20
New 2.0.0 Beta Coming Soon - by pkscout - 2016-05-12, 02:54
Writing tips - by Parkerbup - 2017-02-03, 14:56
RE: [RELEASE] Artist Slideshow 1.3.0 addon (with skin and addon integration) - by Powerhouse - 2018-03-22, 17:05
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