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I use AS among other things to listen to the radio via internet stream Some of my favorite stations only send artist and title information during a song, so AS works wonderfully and shows pictures and bio.
 
Other stations do it in the same way, but in addition to artist and title info while the song is being played, there are also station info, weather, greetings etc.
 
With these stations, whenever artist and title information is not sent, the screen is logically black until artist and title is displayed again, etc. etc.
 
Is there a possibility that the pictures and bio are displayed as long as the song is running, and only changes when a new song is played with another artist?
 
In other words, I would like to ensure that the screen does not alternately go black if greetings, station information, weather, instead of artist and title, are sent in between.
 
Greetings from Germany
Thomas

Technically AS doesn't change the slideshow if the artist stays the same. But when a streaming station changes what's being sent and adds stuff, then AS thinks the artist has changed.  It's impossible to keep up with every variation of text a streaming provider might use, so AS only supports the most common two:

1. artist - title
   
2. title - artist
   

If there is anything else, it gets lumped in with either the artist or title. So in your case I suspect that you go from an artist of "Artist" to an artist of "Artist <more junk from the provider>" and AS treats them as different artists. That's just the way it is.