[pkscout]

Hello @pkscout

I haven't listened to music in Kodi for a while, but had occasion to last night. I am using v18.4 with AeonNox Silvo v7.0.8 by @mikeSiLVO and Artist Slideshow v2.1.4

I noticed that for every artist we listened to, Artist Slideshow would (attempt to) download artwork and create new folders titled "extrafanart" and "information". Most of these folders were empty. My queries...
1. It seems to be ignoring local artwork
2. It duplicates already available local artwork
3. It does not use the new method of saving extrafanart eg fanart1, fanart2 etc

Any idea why this is happening. Do I have a wrong setting enabled/disabled somewhere? I then disabled all references to external sites in the settings page for the addon, but it continues to create these empty folders. I have since disabled the add-on. Needless to say there was a bit of cleaning up to do.

Judging by the log, it is searching for the \extrafanart\ folder which I don't use, so it does not find any of my extrafanart.

Another issue I noticed, and probably more of a Kodi issue, is after I Disabled the add-on, it merrily continued to download artwork. Disabling required a restart of Kodi.

Let me know if you need anything else.

AS does look for artwork in the extrafanart folder (and has since before I started maintaining it). That seemed to be the unofficial standard for a long time before Kodi 18 shipped so I left it to maintain compatibility with other addons that download artwork.

Updating AS for the new artwork structure has ended up not being trivial (mostly because I'm going to have to have a routine to move and rename every piece of existing artwork AS has downloaded), and I've been waiting to make sure the new artwork structure stabilized, so it's going to be awhile.  Honestly every time I read up on the new structure it seems overly complicated and requires lots of manual work to get it activated, so my motivation to do the major rewrite wanes.  But I'll see if I can't get myself excited about it and do the updates.  I'll also include updates so those folders aren't created if all the download options are turned off.  That isn't a use case I thought about before.