(2014-04-16, 20:14)Iluz Wrote: Great, so it seems like what I'm searching for is possible after all, but I still can't get it to work exactly.
My music folder (located in Music\Flac) is set up like this, for example:
Music\Flac\ZAQ\
now, in ZAQ's folder there are several folders for different singles, one of them is called "VOICE". So I have the folder "VOICE", in it the songs of course, and also in ZAQ's main folder I have an extrafanart folder, and in it a file called "VOICE.jpg".
My path to the music library is also set as "C:\Users\Iluz\Music\Flac\" and structure is "artist/album/"
My "Artist Slideshow" is defined with the same folder and uses both remote and local images, without the fallback and override slideshows. Download cache unlimited, no alternate name, doesn't download images from various sites but does download additional artist information.
As for the extendedinfo script, I have the folder in my %appdata%\xbmc but I don't know if I need to configure the script somehow.
Is there something that I'm doing wrong?
I find that the commands
"folder" (artist thumb) and "
fanart" (default background) are not read automatically by XBMC (I am sure I am doing something wrong myself...run artwork downloader, CD-art manager??). But you can get around this problem by:
- Enter Music in library mode
- Choose "Artists"
- Bring up the context menu [c] for the artist you want to edit
- Select
"artist information"
- Hit up, down, left or right to bring up the side panel options
- Select
"choose thumb" and
"choose fanart"
From there, you should be able to manually add a default thumb and background for each artist from your local files. I believe you can do the same for albums at the album level
(album information>>choose thumb).
As for the slideshow, this relies exclusively on your folder structure. I would suggest separating the music artwork and cd-art from the files where the music is contained. I don't know if that is necessary, but that is how I got mine to work:
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Create a folder called "music artwork":
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Within "music artwork", make a folder for each album artist using the same spelling of the album artist as indicated in the file's ID tags (you may need a tag reader to accomplish this. I use iTunes>>Get Info>>Album Artist, but there are other options out there). The spelling of the album artist must be identical.
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In each album artist folder, create a folder called "extrafanart". Place all slideshow artwork in the extrafanart folders. File names are not important.
To summarize the path should look like this:
music artwork>>Album Artist>>extrafanart>>1920 x 1080.jpg
I would suggest you
turn on fallback slideshow to make this work and
using "music artwork" as the fallback folder. If you have CD-art, it should have a path of its own.
The paths defined in
Paths and
the settings for Artist Slideshow must be set to Artist/Album to match the paths of the folders you created. Of course, you must also define the path to the music artwork folder in the
"Paths" portion of "Skin Settings".