(2017-01-26, 09:51)style2k Wrote: arnt there more sources to get art from that you can add in the addon to split the load? further if i have setup an amount of images and they are downloaded why should i need to get more , so maybe can it be changed or entred in settings that if you find an set amount of images in the art folder that it doesnt go to download images again? in my case when i have set an amount of images in the settings to lets say 10 fanart backgrounds i dont need to download more i just want the addon to play what is in the local art map..and i think lots of people that dont need dl new and more images all the time when they have some local stored images . that would already be les load on those site right? and yes you can set that you only want to use local images but when some new tracks are added i stil want to download images to fill the art folder 1 time if i have no images yet but doing it once is better then doing it over and over again

(2017-01-27, 01:53)ArsenioW Wrote: Hello, I´m new to kodi and android tv, I am trying to make artist slideshow work but I´m not able. I have changed the skin to Jarvis Confluence, I´ve tagged some mp3 from my collection with musicbrainz id but it doesn´t work to me. I have loaded my music in kodi, I play a song, go to programs, program add-ons, I pick artist slideshow (2.0.6 version) but doesn´t change, and I see no pictures at all, I don´t know what I´m doing wrong. I don´t know if there´s any guide step-by-step for beginners.
Thank you.

(2017-01-24, 03:27)pkscout Wrote: I've been thinking some more about the issue of theaudiodb.com going offline due to heavy usage. I want to share my ideas about one way I can address this and get everyone's thoughts on this.

AS is open source software licensed under a GPL license. That means I can't (and don't want to) really charge for it. I'm not even the original author of the script, so keeping it open and available is important to me (and seriously, out of my control). What I can "charge" for is access to me. So I'm thinking about requiring that to get an answer from me on something you must provide me evidence that you are monetarily supporting either fanart.tv or theaudiodb.com (probably via DM). Any amount would get you access to me for 1 year. I'm not going to guarantee any kind of response time or have any kind of contract. I'm doing this in my spare time, and sometimes that means I won't be available. Questions (and their answers) would still be posted here for everyone's edification, and others are welcome to step up and support those who opt to not support one of the two sites.

I'm also hoping the original author and others on the Kodi team might chime in on this. I clearly don't want to do anything contrary to the community norms here. I'm just trying to find a way to encourage people to support the sites that make AS possible. I suspect this will be a pain in the ass and make many people unhappy if I do it, but you'll be equally unhappy when the sites that provide the images are gone too.

Thoughts?

(2017-01-27, 21:52)spiderlane Wrote: Notice the %0A being added after the MBID which is the escaped linefeed character. What appears to be happening is that this call at line 534

Code:

rawdata = readFile( filename )

is returning the contents of the file with a "\n" at the end.

So I made an edit to the default.py adding the following at line 536 to strip this away

Code:

rawdata = rawdata.rstrip('\n')

...and bingo everything starts working as expected. So, I'm a happy man, but aware that might just be a hack. Is this something you've come across before? It would appear that readFile() always adds the "\n" at the end in python (I'm a Java programmer by background and don't have much python experience)

(2017-01-26, 17:25)pkscout Wrote:

(2017-01-26, 09:51)style2k Wrote: arnt there more sources to get art from that you can add in the addon to split the load? further if i have setup an amount of images and they are downloaded why should i need to get more , so maybe can it be changed or entred in settings that if you find an set amount of images in the art folder that it doesnt go to download images again? in my case when i have set an amount of images in the settings to lets say 10 fanart backgrounds i dont need to download more i just want the addon to play what is in the local art map..and i think lots of people that dont need dl new and more images all the time when they have some local stored images . that would already be les load on those site right? and yes you can set that you only want to use local images but when some new tracks are added i stil want to download images to fill the art folder 1 time if i have no images yet but doing it once is better then doing it over and over again

In the beginning there were four sources for images: last.fm, htbackdrops, the audiodb, and fanart.tv. Then last.fm stopped providing images via their API to reduce network load. Then htbackdrops went down for quite some time, and when it came back it no longer had API access for anything. So we're down to two, with one offline right now because they don't have money to pay for bandwidth. Anyone else, seeing a pattern? If you don't monetarily support the image sites that make AS possible, they go away. I know of no other sources for images, but if anyone wants to suggest one I can certainly look into it. But I will only add image sources if I have a guarantee from the community that they will give money to support the new sites.

I could implement a max image setting, but theaudiodb only stores three images. So unless I set the max by default to 2 or less, it won't make any difference. A vast majority of artists on fanart.tv have five or six images (or less) so again, your example of 10 (a very reasonable number) would have basically no impact.

(2017-01-27, 23:47)pkscout Wrote: Those musicbrainz.nfo files weren't originally meant to be manually added, so I suspect this has never come up. My bet is it has something to do with the default line ending python uses versus what your specific platform does. Since python was writing the file and then reading it, it never mattered, but with you creating them manually it probably does. Anyway, your solution probably makes the most sense. I'll add that to the AS code (since there's no harm in stripping something that isn't there is most cases). It'll get pushed out whenever I do the next update (which might not be for awhile).

(2017-01-28, 15:00)Rouzax Wrote: Would it be an idea to have the option to use Google and Flickr?
I know that it would not be a sure fire result but to be honest I would prefer anything above an empty screen

(2017-01-28, 18:21)spiderlane Wrote: I might look to add a file based look up of artist name -> MBID which I can maintain in a single file somewhere to save having to rely upon theaudiodb for determining MBID from artist name when using streaming.

(2017-01-28, 19:09)spiderlane Wrote: Ah, I think I must have misunderstood how it works - doesn't it look for an MBID tag in the playing file first and then if it doesn't find one, look for a musicbrainz.nfo file and if it doesn't find that does a lookup at theaudiodb to see if it can find an MBID for the artist name?