[pkscout]

It is true, the new handling of artist artwork in v18 onwards didn't consider the Artist Slideshow at all, or any other addon come to that. I only use one addon myself (the Audio Profile switcher), so am totally oblivious to addon needs unless authors talk to me. I write about the design changes I'm making in the music support subforum, and welcome input, I don't see how else I can be more open and communicative.

@DaveBlake in fairness, I've been watching at least one thread on this, and the entire time it never even dawned on me that there would be more than fanart in the folders. I use so little other artwork in folders that it didn't even dawn on me. So that one is on me.

I like the idea of adding a new image control that allows for a "family" of art types e.gf fanart1, fanart2... but have to admit that the GUI engine is a steep learning curve of old code and no one about to give hints, so I may never get to create such a thing let alone for v19.

So meanwhile is there some other more simple core change that could help? 

I'm going to try some tests and see what happens when I change the skin texture programmatically (via an InfoLabel). I'm either going to try and change Player.Art(fanart) - which would make it skin independent - or create a new AS InfoLabel like ArtistSlideshow.Image and see what happens. I'm afraid the skin won't update, but we'll see. That would mean a new way of supporting AS, but I could work through that.

The other options are variations on a theme:

1. Could we add a way to have the multi-image control have an option to exclude files based on, perhaps, a grep pattern? That would still mean a small change for skins, but it would be less re-coding of AS.
   
2. Could we somehow programmatically pre-screen a folder so that Kodi knows what to display when it's passed to the multi-image control? I suspect this is the hardest core change but would mean no skin changes for AS support.  Just code changes on my end.
   

Thanks.