Bug/Issue?
Is this expected behaviour? When playing a compilation album in full screen mode and when Artist Fanart is selected in OSD Menu Settings, some artists do not show any background fanart and it does not fall back to various artists fanart either.
Test1: Default Fanart is turned on in the music library on the ART pull down menu and
Extra Fanart is off
When playing this compilation album:
Any artists that I
do not have actual albums of on my file server, do not display any background fanart.
For example whilst playing a track with artist 'Kim Carnes" its blank background, also note the
artist logo bug and incorrect logo being displayed.
I do not have any albums by the artist "Kim Carnes"
But if a track plays of an artist I
do have albums of on the file server, then their fanart is displayed OK, for example Artist "Madness" I do have some of their albums.
If whilst playing the "Kim Carnes" track, if I go to the main XBMC music menu and wait for the track timings to appear on the main menu, it then SOMETIMES displays the incorrect background fanart for the artist "Madness". Other times it will correctly display random / rotating artist fanarts as I have enabled the option "Background Image - Use Collection Fanarts" in the music menu customization.
Test2: Extra Fanart is turned on in the music library on the ART pull down menu and
Default Fanart is off
In this case when playing this same compilation album and in full screen mode, the background is still blank / black and displays no fanart for artists I do not have albums of.
And when on the main XBMC music menu and after the track timings appear, it correctly showed random rotating music artist fanart, because I have turned on "Background Image - Use Collection Fanarts" in the music menu customization.
So what's the solution:
1. Do not use Artist Fanart options in the OSD Menu - Settings, instead use one of the SlideShow options, the background will then display images grabbed by the add-on Artist SlideShow instead. You can also set a fallback folder in the Artist SlideShow add-on which contains generic music fanart images, which get displayed when the add-on cannot find any fanart images of the particular artist that is playing.
2. Aeon MQ5 needs to be altered so when you are using an Artist Fanart option in the OSD Menu - Settings and if no fanart is displayed for an artist, it should fallback and in this case, as this is a Various Artist compilation album, I believe it should instead display the generic "Various Artists" fanart in the background.
And in the case of playing an album that is not a compilation album, just a regular album where that album artist has no fanart being displayed, we should have the option to specify a fallback folder to display some generic music fanart images instead.
Generally speaking music background fanarts in MQ5 are a complete nightmare and have many issues and problems.