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

what program is that?

(2012-05-08 23:06)dugan26 Wrote:  what program is that?

Oh, I use "Media Monkey". But you can use "WinAmp" also. And I am sure there are a few more apps that can do "ID3" tagging

Hi !

I'm not very familiar with scripts and have trouble using this one that seems to be perfect for what I want.

First : I'm running XBMC Eden on a WIn7 PC with Aeon Nox (3.0 updated through GIT).
I've just been doing a new clean install.

I wanted to have the same kind of music deplay as on the screen in the second post of this topic : http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...0&page=122

I understood that I add to de-activate all visualization module in the Music Settings Menu and that I needed to use the Artist Slideshow script.
I downloaded it and it is now enabled.

My music is supposed to be organized well, with folder.jpg and .nfo files for artists and albums but also fanart files and extrafanart folders as you can see on my example below :



So in the settings of the script I disabled the download from both lastfm and htpbackdrops site as I wonder to focus on the fanarts included in each artist folder :



On the Slideshow settings, I choose my Root Music folder (C:\Users\Jeremy\Music\Test Musique) as the "Local Artist folder" and set the priority to local :



The problem is that, while playing some track and switching to the "now playing" view with Tab key, I don't have any fanart displayed and a big empty square on the top right part of the screen :




So obviously I am doing something wrong but don't know what.

Thanks for your help in my noob settings.

I would do this.

1

Artist Slideshow>>settings>>download page.

Have HTbackdrops enabled

Set minimal image hight size to 720 (I also in my settings have width set to 720 but I don't think you need it)

Set 16x9 enabled

2

Artist Slideshow>>settings>>slide show page.

All looks right. But you might want to add a "fallback folder". I have mine point to "C:\users\Oddsodz\documents\My Pictures" But you can come up with your own.


3

Seem odd that you had to disable some visualizations. Don't seem right to me as I have "Milk Drop" on and works just fine. I would go and turn that back on.

4 Most important.


Somewhere in the skin settings pages (not the Artist Slideshow settings). There is a "Enable Artist Slideshow" tick box. And you must also make sure that the "Music path" is set to the root music folder.

Now if all the above is done and it still don't work. Well I am lost. And somebody else will have to help you.

Thanks for your reply.
To answer your first two points I've changed my settings to the following :



and



What's the point of the fallback folder ? To store downloaded images from HT¨backdrops ?

For point #3, I mis-explained myself. I wanted to tell that the visualization was set to none :



Finally, I didn't find the "Enable Artist Slideshow" tick box your talking about in your post.

Besides, about the "music path", I have the following settings :



On the skin topic I discovered the settings that you can get while pressing "M" on the "now playing" view.

Now I have fanarts and thumb for the album but the rest of the widget remains empty :





Thanks for your help !

Extra question : is it normal that the script - once all the radio-buttons checked on the download setting pages - hasn't downloaded any file ?
Maybe it is because I have fanarts and extrafanarts in my music folders ?
Is there a way to "force" the download ?

rolapinou Wrote:What's the point of the fallback folder ? To store downloaded images from HT¨backdrops ?

No, It is so that if you have no art and the addon can not find any on the internet to download from, It will "Fall back" to a folder that you have set with loads of fine images of fine looking women in bikini's (well that's what I have anyway you can have "My little Ponies" images if you wish).

As for some stuff missing. This may not be down to the addon, And maybe due to the skin. NOX v3 is from what I know (and I could be very wrong here) still very young and so may still have a fair amount of bugs to sort out. Try "Aeon MQ 3" or "Cirrus Extended v2" (get it from SVN) as I know the addon works 100% on both skins.


As for the rest, You will have to wait until somebody with more skills to post. As I am lost at this point.

(2012-05-12 22:44)rolapinou Wrote:  Extra question : is it normal that the script - once all the radio-buttons checked on the download setting pages - hasn't downloaded any file ?
Maybe it is because I have fanarts and extrafanarts in my music folders ?
Is there a way to "force" the download ?

it downloads files, you just don´t know where they are placed
look in addon_data/script.artistslideshow in userdata folder.

Thanks for all your replies and tips.
I managed to have everything working as should be once re-starting XBMC (and maybe while pressing a magic key on my keyboard ;-)
Hope I will succeed in reproducing the "good" settings, as I am on my "testing" PC before I switch it to my HTPC (when the final version of the 3.0 Aeon Nox is ready).
Keep on the good work !!

(2012-03-06 22:51)pkscuot Wrote:  

option to download artist bio and other additional information (skin must support display of this information)

Hello guys,
I absolutely LOVE this add-on and use it all the time.

Often I have friends over for a "music evening" and they bring tracks on a memory stick, so would love to have the artist bio also working with the artist artwork slideshow (without adding tracks I do not have into my library and updating it first). So far I THINK the artist bio only works on Confluence.

Another use is when listening to KCRW or other music streaming Radio stations. With Confluence I can get the artist BIO as well as the artwork slideshow... which is great, but I would prefer a skin like T!.

Is there a list of skins this works on? I have tried about 10 this morning and only confluence seems to work.

Thanks,
Mark.