[DaveBlake]

Yes - trying find a classical album can be a headache. So I turn off scraping for albums (Local information only), but leave scraping on for artists. But I don't get any fanart. Is that expected behaviour?

Are you scraping somewhere that has fanart? The usual reason people don't get artist art is server timeout. The next is that they have to retry to fill in the gaps. But assuming that you are asking about fanart specifically, then it is a matter of asking in the right place too. Also many people use CDArt addon to do the exciting art stuff.

I'm getting some information coming through, now, by manually refreshing each artist using the default sites. Not a big deal for me, but it does make the screen look prettier

Have you tried using "Query info for all" from the artists node, or any list of artists? A bit easier than visiting each artist manually.