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

(2012-06-17 15:39)CaBrA Wrote:  

(2012-05-31 16:11)sstavross Wrote:  1. Again you can enable/disable this zooming in and out in the skin's settings.

Hello, I need little help with this Add-On

I want to do exactly the opposite of the user you helped, When I enable this addon I see the pictures but they are statics, I want to have them displayed with zoom in/out effect to give a little movement effect to the background, but I can´t find any zoom setting in confluence EDEN Skin settings.

If there is no Zoom effect control in Confluence how can I mode this add-on to have movement (like artic slideshow for screensaver).

Thank you!

Hi!

Just now saw your post... Well, I don't know how to enable zoom in/out in the default confluence EDEN Skin. You need to modify and add some code to the OSD.xml file. But You can install this mod of confluence: http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=129733. This has the zoom in/out you want, plus some extras. It is the skin I use everyday, and it is very lite too!

(2012-06-18 21:53)pkscuot Wrote:  

(2012-06-18 12:36)Hetoft Wrote:  Sounds nice. Thanks for the answer. However, how about using the "fallback" folder for when a new artist's photos are in the process of being downloaded? That way, we could create a folder with only one picture in it (be it black, our XBMC background etc.) and have that display, right until the moment when the first image gets downloaded for a new artist? I'd much rather like that, instead of having it display pictures of the previous artist.

I'll have to look into that. It will require another setting in the preferences (which are borderline too confusing anyway), but it is, in theory, doable. I just need to decide if it's something that really *should* be added. Anyone else have any thoughts?

Definitely..I think something like this would be an essential improvement to this addon. This addon is such amazing eye candy but with a slow and/or congested internet connection the wrong artist does get displayed for quite some time sometimes. This significantly reduces the show-offy appeal of the addon. So, anything that could ensure that an incorrect artist is never shown would be an essential improvement in my view....Hetoft's suggestion seems like a very sensible method.

I have another small (I hope !) feature request. XBMC supports multiple artists in ID3 tags. If the two artists are separated by " / " the song will show up in the library under both artists.

However I think that whenever Artist Slideshow tries to get images for such a track it reads the total ARTIST field entry as a single artist. (Ie. It would read Nicki Minaj / Rihanna as a single artist and return no results.) If this behaviour is currently as i think it is would it be possible to change it to return results either for both artists or just the first one?

Thanks so much - love this addon so deeply!

(2012-06-28 12:23)kiboy6 Wrote:  I have another small (I hope !) feature request. XBMC supports multiple artists in ID3 tags. If the two artists are separated by " / " the song will show up in the library under both artists.

However I think that whenever Artist Slideshow tries to get images for such a track it reads the total ARTIST field entry as a single artist. (Ie. It would read Nicki Minaj / Rihanna as a single artist and return no results.) If this behaviour is currently as i think it is would it be possible to change it to return results either for both artists or just the first one?

I'll take a look. It shouldn't be too hard to at least parse the string and get the first artist, but supporting both artists is probably going to be something of a PITA. So no promises there.

(2012-07-02 13:55)pkscuot Wrote:  

(2012-06-28 12:23)kiboy6 Wrote:  I have another small (I hope !) feature request. XBMC supports multiple artists in ID3 tags. If the two artists are separated by " / " the song will show up in the library under both artists.

However I think that whenever Artist Slideshow tries to get images for such a track it reads the total ARTIST field entry as a single artist. (Ie. It would read Nicki Minaj / Rihanna as a single artist and return no results.) If this behaviour is currently as i think it is would it be possible to change it to return results either for both artists or just the first one?

I'll take a look. It shouldn't be too hard to at least parse the string and get the first artist, but supporting both artists is probably going to be something of a PITA. So no promises there.

If possible also split on:
ft.
feat.
&

Scrapers also split on this

(2012-07-02 14:12)Martijn Wrote:  If possible also split on:
ft.
feat.
&

OK, the first two don't seem to bad. I'm pretty sure few if any artists have ft. or feat. in their name. But how do I tell the difference between the group Hall & Oates and two separate artists with one named Hall and the other Oates?

(2012-07-02 14:15)pkscuot Wrote:  

(2012-07-02 14:12)Martijn Wrote:  If possible also split on:
ft.
feat.
&

OK, the first two don't seem to bad. I'm pretty sure few if any artists have ft. or feat. in their name. But how do I tell the difference between the group Hall & Oates and two separate artists with one named Hall and the other Oates?

Actually i have a lot of singles that have feat. or ft. in the artist field.

Not sure on how to solve the &
Perhaps just leave that one

Hi Pkscuot

Hope u are well, thx for the excellent add-on. I need ur help please. I am trying to add images to slideshow, so I added extra images to htbackdrops artist and tried to add to slideshow download... But not working, it is showing in htbackdrops (theuns jordaan) but slideshow not downloading it? Is there a specific way of doing or adding it? I have tried to add images to last fm but they not allowing me to although I have done excactly as they asked

Please help

Rgds
Manuel

(2012-07-09 12:26)Tommy2012 Wrote:  Hope u are well, thx for the excellent add-on. I need ur help please. I am trying to add images to slideshow, so I added extra images to htbackdrops artist and tried to add to slideshow download... But not working, it is showing in htbackdrops (theuns jordaan) but slideshow not downloading it? Is there a specific way of doing or adding it? I have tried to add images to last fm but they not allowing me to although I have done excactly as they asked

First, it would be worth a read through the wiki page. It describes all the options and skin requirements. Here are some things you might want to look at:

1- make sure you have a skin that supports Artist Slideshow
2- make sure you have actually selected to download images form htbackdrops.com

To see if images are actually being downloaded, check in userdata/addon_data/script.artistslideshow/ArtistSlideshow. You should see a series of folders with encoded names. In those folders are the images that have been downloaded. I noticed that the Theuns Jordaan images are really small, so also make sure you haven't set the preferences to exclude images smaller than a certain size.

If you continue to have issues, please post a debug log.

Hi Pkscuot

Thx for the reply...

I think I explained myself wrong, everything works 100%, and download all my artist slideshow images from last fm and htbackdrops and works perfectly. I was not happy with the images loaded for a specific artist and uploaded more pics on htbackdrops for this specific artist, but when I update images from htbackdrop then these new added images is not added to my artist slideshow folder for this artist...no matter what I do

My question is why htbackdrop does not allow me to add this to artist slideshow add-on?

Ps: my settings is set to allow all image sizes

Rgds
Manuel

(2012-07-09 20:07)Tommy2012 Wrote:  I think I explained myself wrong, everything works 100%, and download all my artist slideshow images from last fm and htbackdrops and works perfectly. I was not happy with the images loaded for a specific artist and uploaded more pics on htbackdrops for this specific artist, but when I update images from htbackdrop then these new added images is not added to my artist slideshow folder for this artist...no matter what I do

I have seen htbackdrops not provide new images via the API (that's what Artist Slideshow uses to get the images) even if you can find them directly on the web site. In those cases, the problem seemed to resolve itself over the course of a few days. Without a debug log to look at the only thing I can suggest is to wait a couple of days and see what happens.