[RELEASE] Artist Slideshow 1.3.0 addon (with skin and addon integration)

(2012-04-19 13:31)Tommy2012 Wrote:  Hi All

Is this great script working on Aeon MQ3 2.0.1 as well? I cant seem to get it working and get the following bug report..

http://pastebin.com/PkiNQkLN

Hopefully someone can help me to get this working

Rgds
Manuel

Works for me in that skin.

(2012-04-19 14:08)Oddsodz Wrote:  

(2012-04-19 13:31)Tommy2012 Wrote:  Hi All

Is this great script working on Aeon MQ3 2.0.1 as well? I cant seem to get it working and get the following bug report..

http://pastebin.com/PkiNQkLN

Hopefully someone can help me to get this working

Rgds
Manuel

Works for me in that skin.

Hi

Thanks for the quick reply.

Is there perhaps someone that can look at the bug report and have a solution for me

Rgds
Manuel

(2012-04-19 13:31)Tommy2012 Wrote:  Hi All

Is this great script working on Aeon MQ3 2.0.1 as well? I cant seem to get it working and get the following bug report..

http://pastebin.com/PkiNQkLN

According to the release notes from Aeon MQ3 it does. The error you are getting seems to indicate that script.module.elementtree is either not there or is the wrong version. That should be downloaded if it isn't there automatically, so I'm not sure why that isn't happening. You should check the addon directory in your userdata folder and see if elementtree is there and that it's version 1.2.7.

(2012-04-19 16:30)pkscuot Wrote:  

(2012-04-19 13:31)Tommy2012 Wrote:  Hi All

Is this great script working on Aeon MQ3 2.0.1 as well? I cant seem to get it working and get the following bug report..

http://pastebin.com/PkiNQkLN

According to the release notes from Aeon MQ3 it does. The error you are getting seems to indicate that script.module.elementtree is either not there or is the wrong version. That should be downloaded if it isn't there automatically, so I'm not sure why that isn't happening. You should check the addon directory in your userdata folder and see if elementtree is there and that it's version 1.2.7.

Hi Pkscuot

Thx for the reply

Downloaded the file and replaced with the one from MQ3 and works 100%. Great support guys and thanks a lot

Rgds
Manuel

Hey all. I Have a bit off an issue. And I have pined it down to this "add-on".

When using this "Add-on". I get random hard resets of my PC. I Have tried running without the "Add-on" and my system stays stable. I Have tried running with different skins and I have the same results.

Using "Eden" on Win7Pro 64bit

here is a log

http://pastebin.com/ueC2bvfw

Hope you can see what might be going on

(2012-04-20 03:33)Oddsodz Wrote:  Hey all. I Have a bit off an issue. And I have pined it down to this "add-on".

When using this "Add-on". I get random hard resets of my PC. I Have tried running without the "Add-on" and my system stays stable. I Have tried running with different skins and I have the same results.

Using "Eden" on Win7Pro 64bit

here is a log

http://pastebin.com/ueC2bvfw

Hope you can see what might be going on

Sorry, there is not one single line in that entire log that indicates Artist Slideshow is ever run. I'd be interested in seeing a debug log if Artist Slideshow is uninstalled, but y look through indicates you have all sorts of problems with files not being read (or missing), database errors, etc. I can't for the life of me think how the simple presence of a set of code that isn't run would cause that.

(2012-04-18 19:41)pkscuot Wrote:  

(2012-04-18 15:46)Acrobat76 Wrote:  So, for the first few days everything was working perfectly, both with and without the cache limitation. However now the slideshow gets stuck on an artist and doesn't move on to the next artist when the song`s artist changes. This should be my debug log, i`m a bit new to xbmc so apologies if i`m missing something obvious

http://pastebin.com/HxSqEfAj

That's the debug log. Thanks for that. As I look through it, it appears to me that for some reason PAPlayer (the process that plays the music) is stopping between songs. On both my systems PAPlayer keeps running and indicates a new track is starting. I'm not sure if that's an AppleTV specific thing, but that's what's causing the issue. ArtistSlideShow checks to see if PAPlayer is playing any audio. If it isn't, it stops (by default at least). Once Artist Slideshow is stopped the only way to restart it is to exit the music visualization screen and go back in.

Having said all that, ronie (the original author) did include an option to have Artist Slideshow keep running even if the music stopped. When I updated the documentation I removed reference to that, as I couldn't figure out a use case that made any sense for that. The good news is that the code is still there. So let's try this:

open up your MusicVisualization.xml file and look for this line (it should be near the top):

<onfocus>RunScript(script.artistslideshow)</onfocus>

replace it with this:


<onfocus>RunScript(script.artistslideshow, daemon=True)</onfocus>

That should force Artist Slideshow to keep running even after PAPlayer stops. Artist Slideshow takes very little processing power (basically zero if it isn't downloading new images), so you shouldn't notice any performance hit. Hopefully that will correct your issue. If it does, I'll add something to the wiki for AppleTV users.

Works like a charm. Thank you!

(2012-04-24 18:11)Acrobat76 Wrote:  

(2012-04-18 19:41)pkscuot Wrote:  open up your MusicVisualization.xml file and look for this line (it should be near the top):

<onfocus>RunScript(script.artistslideshow)</onfocus>

replace it with this:

<onfocus>RunScript(script.artistslideshow, daemon=True)</onfocus>

That should force Artist Slideshow to keep running even after PAPlayer stops. Artist Slideshow takes very little processing power (basically zero if it isn't downloading new images), so you shouldn't notice any performance hit. Hopefully that will correct your issue. If it does, I'll add something to the wiki for AppleTV users.

Works like a charm. Thank you!

Good to know. I've added the potential AppleTV issue as a "limitation" on the wiki page with the workaround.

Hi pkscuot,

Translate strings for Portuguese (Brasil) - addon Artist Slideshow, download here:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/25170804/Artist%...trings.xml

thanks,

Wanilton

(2012-04-29 05:42)Wanilton Wrote:  Translate strings for Portuguese (Brasil) - addon Artist Slideshow, download here:

Thanks. I'll add them and get an update pushed later this week.