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Currently running Kodi 18.7, with the default Estuary skin and Artist Slideshow v3.2.2

I run the ProjectM Visualisation with the "Show Fanart Background" option enabled, which works a treat

However, when no artist image is found, is it possible to prevent the default background from displaying, so that the visualisation takes precedence?

I believe I recall that this was the default behaviour for version 2 (i might be mistaken!).

Also, does anyone know what file and section I need to edit so that the artist bio shows on the default Estuary skin?

Thanks

What happens if there is no AS image is up to the skin.  If you want to see nothing when there is no artist image, there are two choices.  In AS you could set the fallback to a folder with a single black image (or whatever "not the default background" image you wanted).  For Estuary, to keep the skin from showing anything if there is no AS image, you'd need to remove the following from Musicvisualization.xml:

xml:


            <control type="image">

                <aspectratio>scale</aspectratio>

                <fadetime>400</fadetime>

                <animation effect="fade" start="0" end="100" time="400">WindowOpen</animation>

                <animation effect="fade" start="100" end="0" time="300">WindowClose</animation>

                <texture background="true">$INFO[Player.Art(fanart)]</texture>

                <visible>String.IsEmpty(Window(Visualisation).Property(ArtistSlideshow.Image))</visible>

            </control>

For the artist bio, it depends on where you want it to show.  If you want it to show whenever you bring up the visualization screen, MusicVisualization.xml.  If you only want to see it when you bring up the info overlay (with the album art, name of song/album, seekbar, etc), then it's MusicOSD.xml.