[pkscout]

Hi @pkscout 

Many thanks for your work in this addon, I've been using it for years now without any problem... however, recently I've noticed that similar artists images wasn't showing properly, in fact they all return this:



I looked in the AS addon data folder and saw that lastfmartistsimilar.nfo for each artist was pointing to that online image, as you can see:

SNIP

I guess there must be a problem with lastfm, isn't it?

Thanks!

Yea, that's last.fm.  They just keep getting more and more stingy with their images.  AS dropped support for using last.fm for artist images a few years back because last.fm stopped providing them via the API.  I just did some checking, and it looks like during a "clean up" of their APIs they disabled the rest of the images because using images is a violation of their API usage guidelines.  I'll update the code when AS 3.0 comes out to remove the similar artist image (and any other images I get back from them), so the only thing last.fm is any good for anymore is some text stuff like bios and lists of albums and similar artists.  Which really makes me wonder if I should just drop it all together.  It kind of doesn't make sense for an addon that is designed to show images of artists to support a service that doesn't let you use images.