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For Various Artists that has tag "Various Artists" in artist-name.I make local-artist folder for it, and point for not found/no tag-artist with fallback.
e.g.

Various Artists folder in local artist folder

Show In music visualization


And for fallback images folder
 

Hi Devilshura

Fancy sharing your music fallback images with us? They look quite good!

I can see what you have done and I think why it works for you is because your main music path is D:\Music_Artist\ which is a local drive.

And I think I am correct in saying - so when you play an album tagged with artist-name = "Various Artists" Artist SlideShow will display the images in the various artists\extrafanart folder on your D:\ drive. And if it can't find an image to display either remote or local for a particular artist, it will then display the images in your fallback folder instead.

This doesn't work the same for me, because my main music path is a network path SMB://WHS/Music. So Artist SlideShow will only display Remote images and not "Local" ones. Maybe I need to figure out how to add a mount point in Linux / OpenElec somehow ?



I do however have the same Various Artists folder on my file server, but Artist SlideShow won't use it currently.



This is why I asked if Artist SlideShow could instead display the "Various Artists" fanart images from Fanart.tv (Remote) when I play an album and the artist-name is tagged as "Various Artists" 

Hi.. 

Just chiming in here but I use SQL to host music on two different PI's and I had some issues with programs being unable to locate things fast enough using SMB://(name)/path so I pointed every to SMB://(ipAddress)/path in kodi and this stopped a lot of reverse look ups for name to ip.    Just a thought.
My collection has over 2000 artists in it and Artwork has taken months to get found and corrected.. 
  I do like this fallback trick will be checking this out as soon as I find out why my slide show has found some random artists to lock on to for Various Artists..Which happenes to be Dolly Pardon..LOL

James