Scott you gave me an idea, and it half-works already. There is a VFS path called
playlistmusic://
that can be fed to a list control (as "<content>") which can be displayed directly, or it is possible to use
Container(controlID).ListItem.Art(album.thumb)
to get just an InfoLabel. "Half-works" because the "offset" option follows the focus of the container, not the playing item, so it is less useful. A solution there could be to add an option for skinners to add to containers like "focus follows playback" for this. I've wanted such a thing for the main list on the playlist window; maybe it's not a bad idea in general.
playlistvideo://
is also available, and looking at the code,
pvr://
has a few paths in it. I don't have a PVR so I can't really explore that one to see what's available, but it is possible to show the VFS path of many windows' container with the
Container.FolderPath
InfoLabel.
On a different note, I've been working on some wiki documentation for artwork, and one new page I'm working on might interest you,
Artwork/Accessing with skins and JSON-RPC. It's still in progress so I would appreciate any feedback.