[giftie]

Hi giftie,

first of all I want to say thank you for that great addon! I'm using it for a while and run into some things I will ask now.

As you can see on the picture some artists are not recognized. Some of them don't exist at fanart.tv. KISS exists on fanart.tv as "KISS (US Rock band)", but the script only says "not found at fanart.tv". BAP exists at fanart.tv as "BAP (German rock)" and the script found the artist. Where are the differences that the script doesn't find KISS?
EDIT: After checking the log I see that a wrong MBID was used. I don't know why because it worked before. After changing the MBID KISS is recognized now. The problem now is that when I select KISS from cdarts or cover arts nothing happens. In the left corner "Artist: KISS" is displayed but that's all.
EDIT2: "Buffering" is displayed shortly and seems to return without result. The focus is lost. With moving the mouse I can get the focus again. But no list is displayed. This only happens with cdarts und cover arts as you hopefully can see in the log. I have selected clear arts also for this log. This was working.
The log: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/104089403/cdart.log

Are you allowing the script to match your artists to fanart.tv's? At the start of the script, the script will display a progress dialog 'Retrieving Recognized Artist List', are you canceling this dialog? The script is not throwing any errors but states that it could not match anything(this and the fact you do have some match artists leads me to feel like you are canceling the matching)

Herbert Grönemeyer exists at fanart.tv but there are no images stored atm. Is that the reason why it is displayed in white?

Yes. fanart.tv does not report artists that do not have artwork available.

Is it possible to mark the artist logo that is actually in use, for instance with a rectangle?

Not sure what you mean by this...

Is it possible to simply add new artists to the database instead of deleting the database and do a complete new scan? It's horrible for me to make a new scan every time I add an artist because it tooks several hours every time. I have 1000 compilations in the database for which the script don't find any images. Normally the script will never find any images for them. I suggest to integrate a filter mechanism which allow to decline the script searching for images. This can be done on artist level (here "VARIOUS") or on a path level where we can exclude albums beginning with the choosen path. Is this possible?

The script has an 'Update Database' option in the Advanced > Modify Local Database

I had a problem but unfortunatly I don't have any logs. At the beginning of the use of artist logos I played with that feature and copied an image for VARIOUS in the folder to check if it is displayed. XBMC had cashed this image and I didn't get rid of this. Last week I used the option "Update XBMC thumbnails and fanarts" in the hope that this image disappear, which I better don't have done. After that mostly all my covers were disarranged in the way that wrong covers were displayed for the albums. I had to delete my database and make a new scan. Do you have an idea what happened? I'm using Eden.

I will be removing that option in settings due to it is not needed anymore. I'm not sure why it messed up your artwork.. Also you need to keep in mind that XBMC uses an image cache, which takes about 24+ hrs to clear, unless the actual cached thumbnail image is replaced.

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I've got a problem with cdart manger. when i open the program is just sits there on 'retrieving music database' i have left it for ages but the progress bar does not move at all. When i try to cancel it just says cancelling indefinitely.

I would be thankfull for any advise given.

I am very new to XBMC and am unsure how to take fault logs which others have posted on here so would need help to supply that if needed.

Did you first build XBMC's music Library?

Also see the Wiki for log file detailes -> http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Log_file