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- ronie - 2011-06-09 20:20
fredphoesh Wrote:I will continue to do some testing WRT the slide show getting stuck on one artist at some point... If it happens again I will ardently try to figure out why it's doing that. It MAY have something to do with one of the large collections which is tagged Album Artist - Various Artists and the Artist tag is unique for each track.
check my post on the previous page, in case you've missed it.
- fredphoesh - 2011-06-09 20:27
ronie Wrote:check my post on the previous page, in case you've missed it.
Hi, yes, i saw that last night, but AFAIK that is specifically about playing one image for one artist... but in my case it stays on one image for the rest of the day, despite the fact that every track is by a different artist.
Would it be the same issue I have been having then?
Tx!
Mark.
- ronie - 2011-06-09 20:34
fredphoesh Wrote:Hi, yes, i saw that last night, but AFAIK that is specifically about playing one image for one artist... but in my case it stays on one image for the rest of the day, despite the fact that every track is by a different artist.
Would it be the same issue I have been having then?
nope, no idea why that would happen, a debug log may provide some clues.
the script uses the artist tag and not the albumartist tag btw.
- fredphoesh - 2011-06-09 20:49
ronie Wrote:nope, no idea why that would happen, a debug log may provide some clues.
the script uses the artist tag and not the albumartist tag btw.
Ok cool, tx...
I will make sure it is still happening, then do a debug. I am also thinking of wiping and restarting with my library because in the full screen mode, I often do not get the text artist info overlay scroll, and instead get four letters in the shape of squares that scroll up and stop at the bottom of the screen.
till later,
tx
Mark.
- perro6969 - 2011-06-10 13:49
fredphoesh Wrote:Hi, yes, i saw that last night, but AFAIK that is specifically about playing one image for one artist... but in my case it stays on one image for the rest of the day, despite the fact that every track is by a different artist.
Would it be the same issue I have been having then?
Tx!
Mark.
This also happens to me (sometimes). You have to restart xbmc and the next time you play another artist, new images will come.
- fredphoesh - 2011-06-10 14:30
perro6969 Wrote:This also happens to me (sometimes). You have to restart xbmc and the next time you play another artist, new images will come.
Hi,
Well it's good (I guess) that I'm not the only one, so perhaps there is an issue that can be tweaked somehow somewhere... but in the meantime I am assuming it has something to do with my database, so I have deleted it and am rescanning my music folders... and will report back in a few days.
Cheers,
Mark
- perro6969 - 2011-06-13 23:25
Hi Ronie,
Do you need more debuglogs from us?
Were you able to find the problem?
Please, tell me what I can do to help.
- ronie - 2011-06-14 16:35
perro6969 Wrote:Hi Ronie,i've got yours, but anyone else having issues should definitely post a debug log.
Do you need more debuglogs from us?
perro6969 Wrote:Were you able to find the problem?
Please, tell me what I can do to help.
yeah, as a matter of fact i could use some help.
if you could change line 126 in default.py, from:
Code:
time.sleep(0.05)Code:
time.sleep(1)and test if that makes any difference...
- perro6969 - 2011-06-14 19:43
Hello Ronie,
I've made the changes you mentioned, but nothing seems to change.
here is the dubuglog:
http://pastebin.com/h3kPFFpT
This is what I did:
Listen for the first time the artist "Against All Authority". Like always, only the first image is shown. I waited some time till the next song of the same artist, but nothing happened, so I made the trick I have: get out and back to the visualisation mode. Then it worked.
I went to the next artist (Agnostic Front) and the same happened.
Then I decided to go to a "Various Artists" album, but instead of showing new images, only the images of the last artist (Agnostic Front) where shown. The trick of going out and back didn't work this time.
So I changed again to a new "Various Artists" album and new images came only after "The Skatalites" were played, but like always, only the first image, so I made the trick and the rest was shown. When the next artist played, the Skatalites images were still there. I tried other artist of the same album, but it didn't changed till I played Ronald Alphonso. And then the same happend: only the first image till I do the trick.
So...I hope this helps you a little.
Thanks for all the work!
- ronie - 2011-06-14 23:31
perro6969 Wrote:Listen for the first time the artist "Against All Authority". Like always, only the first image is shown. I waited some time till the next song of the same artist, but nothing happenedyep, that's weird, it certainly should've worked in this case.
perro6969 Wrote:so I made the trick I have: get out and back to the visualisation mode. Then it worked.
i aware of your trick, but it clutters up the logfile big time ;-)
besides, if you're backing out of the visualization screen all the time, there's no way for you to tell if the script would eventually have updated the slideshow, since your 'trick' already did....so not an ideal way to test :-)
perro6969 Wrote:I went to the next artist (Agnostic Front) and the same happened.the script was still downloading images, so it's correct you only got to see 1.
perro6969 Wrote:Then I decided to go to a "Various Artists" album, but instead of showing new images, only the images of the last artist (Agnostic Front) where shown. The trick of going out and back didn't work this time.
So I changed again to a new "Various Artists" album and new images came only after "The Skatalites" were played, but like always, only the first image, so I made the trick and the rest was shown. When the next artist played, the Skatalites images were still there. I tried other artist of the same album, but it didn't changed till I played Ronald Alphonso. And then the same happend: only the first image till I do the trick.
on most occasions...the script was still downloading images when the next track started, so you only get to see one.
in one occasion, it didn't even get the change to download the first one,
in another case there was only one image available at last.fm.
but, as i mentioned, in the case of Against All Authority, the script should've done it's job.
i've tested with dharma + confluence on three different machines (linux, xp , w7) but can't reproduce this issue.