v18 CD Artwork and Artist Logo's
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There are different issues that need to be sorted (SHS = skin.helper.service, AB = Artwork Beef, AS = Artist Slideshow)

1.  Name of extended art file.  AFAIK, SHS and AB have de-facto standard and are compatible.  This name is also used as the arttype attribute in the music database.  AS doesn't use extended art.

2.  Location of local extended art file.  AB can look either in the source folder tree OR the Artist info folder tree set in Kodi settings for artist extended art.  Not sure offhand about SHS but I think only the source folders.  AB and SHS both look in source folder tree for album extended art.

3.  Name of extra art file.  AB suggests using fanart1, fanart2, etc.  SHS and AS don't care.

4.  Location of local extra art.  SHS will look for "extrafanart" folder in the source folder tree.  AB recommends adding extrafanart as artist extended art so follows 2).  AS does its own management of location.  In the past it stored in its addon_data folder, but as of Ver 2 creates it's own artist folder tree.  (As a note, in the past there was companion addon AS Helper to move the extrafanart out of addon_data if user desired.)

5.  Skin use of extended art.  SHS provides window property infolabel for extended art.  AB does not provide property, instead skin gets using built-in Kodi infolabels.  Skins can also get extended art by looking directly for extended art files (where it looks is up to skin).

6.  Skin use of extra art.  SHS provides window property infolabel for extra art (extrafanart).  AB does not provide property, instead skin gets using built-in Kodi infolabels (AB suggests using non-standard arttype fanart2, fanart3, etc).  AS provides window property infolabel for extra art (extrafanart).  Skins can also get extra art by looking for extra art files (where it looks is up to skin but there is a de-facto convention of using "extrafanart" folder, the location of that folder is up to skin).

7.  Note that for skins property infolabels don't work within containers.

scott s.
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CD Artwork and Artist Logo's - by Dumyat - 2018-04-24, 16:23
RE: CD Artwork and Artist Logo's - by Dumyat - 2018-04-25, 17:16
RE: CD Artwork and Artist Logo's - by jasn - 2018-04-25, 22:34
RE: CD Artwork and Artist Logo's - by scott967 - 2018-04-26, 02:05
RE: CD Artwork and Artist Logo's - by Dumyat - 2018-04-26, 21:59
RE: CD Artwork and Artist Logo's - by Dumyat - 2018-04-28, 15:57
RE: CD Artwork and Artist Logo's - by Dumyat - 2018-04-28, 19:22
RE: CD Artwork and Artist Logo's - by gibxxi - 2018-05-02, 02:48
RE: CD Artwork and Artist Logo's - by gibxxi - 2018-05-18, 03:25
RE: CD Artwork and Artist Logo's - by Dumyat - 2018-05-03, 00:25
RE: CD Artwork and Artist Logo's - by Mr. V - 2018-05-13, 00:19
RE: CD Artwork and Artist Logo's - by jinux - 2019-04-02, 22:56
RE: CD Artwork and Artist Logo's - by jinux - 2019-04-03, 11:13
RE: CD Artwork and Artist Logo's - by jinux - 2019-04-03, 22:23
RE: CD Artwork and Artist Logo's - by jinux - 2019-04-03, 22:28
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