[shedrock]

If you use Embuary Helper for backgrounds, then if a movie or tv show or music video or playlist item in your collection does not have fanart, it will skip over that item and Kodi will not show a black background. 

This is especially useful, for example, for playlists that you are using as a menu item where all of the movies in the playlist do not have fanarts.  If you just use regular method and assign the playlist as background for the menu item, then for each movie in the playlist that does not have fanart, Kodi will show a black background.  With Embuary Helper, this does not happen.

What I ended up doing, and that is why I created the new settings, is putting the hidden lists that make the backgrounds and statistics lines possible in conditional includes.  That way, if you are not using those settings, Embuary Helper will not be called at all when you are in your Home menu.

Regards,

Bart 

Thank you very much Bart for the detailed explanation. I understand completely.


Shedrock