2011-11-10, 08:19
xbmc17 Wrote:Is there any reason this script uses "albumartist" instead of "artist" for the fanart lookup? This causes every song from a compilation album to display a "various artists" backdrop (if one exists) instead of the actual artist. Is there a way to change that?
Thanks.
How does this script cause that?? The script does not display any fanarts or cause those to be displayed, skins do.. The script will download a Various Artist Fanart and store it in the album folder if the fanart is manually downloaded. Not everyone has their music library organized with the Album Artist as Various Artists and the tracks with the actual Artist(for compilations)
The script originally dealt with only cdARTs, therefore only dealt with Album Artists(downloading a cdART for each of the artists in a compilation CD would have been a waste.)
I've added "all artists" to fanart and logo sections of the script. This also will require the option 'Include artists who appear only on compilations' in the Music Library settings to be turned on(this is needed for XBMC to provide the script with the artists.) It hasn't been completely tested yet, nor backported to the Dharma Version(it will).
The script will automatically check the version of the addon's database that currently resides on XBMC, then determines if it needs to update it to have the full artists list to be added to the database. If it does, the script will store the artists(along with the matching MusicBrainz ID, if found). Depending on the number of artists this may take 10-15 mins(My system had about 1000 artists not in the library). If it is a fresh install the database will be built as normal(with the new artist list.)
Once this is complete, the script will function normally again, except for two new option in Fanart and clearlogo sections.