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**pkscout** · 2024-04-01, 19:43

(2024-04-01, 17:26)Park Wrote: @pkscout
Kodi 20+Skin AeonMQ 9, Artist Slideshow addon dont work. If I change to standard skin, ASS works.
Any suggestion, how can I improve the compatibility of ASS in Skin Aeon MQ9?

The wiki page for the addon has all the needed information for a skin to make sure of the window variables AS creates.

https://kodi.wiki/index.php?title=Add-on..._Slideshow

wags1 · 2024-04-01, 20:25

@Park I run Artist Slideshow with Aeon MQ 9 Nexus Mod but AFAIK there is no problem with it running on the plain Aeon MQ9 on Nexus either. Make sure you are running the latest version of Artist Slideshow for Nexus - 3.3.6.

Park · 2024-04-01, 21:40

Thank you for your quick response. I have seen your wiki, but I cant find the necessary "MusicVisualisation.xml" for the changes. The skin runs on a Rpi4 with libreelec 11.0.6.

Park · 2024-04-01, 21:44

Thank you for your help. Unfortunately the Aeon MQ 9 mod runs not stable on the rpi4, it crashes from time to time.

Prmth · 2024-04-10, 13:14

Hello. First of all, thank for awesome addon.
Since quite some time audiodb actually supports 4 pictures for an artist. However, Artist Slideshow never really gets the 4th pic - it gets only pictures 1 to 3. Would there be a chance for a code change which would get all 4 of them?

**pkscout** · 2024-04-10, 23:18

(2024-04-10, 13:14)Prmth Wrote: Hello. First of all, thank for awesome addon.
Since quite some time audiodb actually supports 4 pictures for an artist. However, Artist Slideshow never really gets the 4th pic - it gets only pictures 1 to 3. Would there be a chance for a code change which would get all 4 of them?

No problem. It's literally a one character fix (to change the number 3 to the number 4 in a loop). I'll do the pull request to update the addon in the Kodi repo today. It usually takes a week or so for someone to do the review and then merge it.

Once the code is updated, you have to wait for the cache file to expire before it'll grab the fourth image. If you want to force it, you need to delete the information folder for every artist you want to get the image more quickly, which might be kind of a pain. So really, I would just wait. The caches expire in 1 - 2 weeks (they're a little random to even out load on the image services).

eljejer · 2024-06-06, 11:10

Hi all,

It has been a while since I last installed AS. And now, after installing AS on a fresh Kodi install, I see the initial message:

"The default behavior is to display music information for 10 seconds after a song is played or the next track in your queue begins. To display permanently reactivate the info and do not toggle it off a second time."

This is where I remember having struggled with this setting before.
My question with this is: when mentioning this "info toggle", is this referring to a Kodi setting OR an AS setting?
In Kodi I see this toggle: System, Media, Music, General, "Switch to visualisation on playback"
In AS I cannot find something equal.

So, I presume that an AS setting is referred to, because Artist Slideshow and "Visualisation" are two different things.
Only I cannot find it...

**pkscout** · 2024-06-06, 12:45

(2024-06-06, 11:10)eljejer Wrote: Hi all,

It has been a while since I last installed AS. And now, after installing AS on a fresh Kodi install, I see the initial message:

"The default behavior is to display music information for 10 seconds after a song is played or the next track in your queue begins. To display permanently reactivate the info and do not toggle it off a second time."

This is where I remember having struggled with this setting before.
My question with this is: when mentioning this "info toggle", is this referring to a Kodi setting OR an AS setting?
In Kodi I see this toggle: System, Media, Music, General, "Switch to visualisation on playback"
In AS I cannot find something equal.

So, I presume that an AS setting is referred to, because Artist Slideshow and "Visualisation" are two different things.
Only I cannot find it...

It's not really a setting. In Kodi when you start playing music the screen that shows the artists comes up, and the info displays. If it goes away and you want to keep it, you need to hit 'i' on your keyboard (or whatever the equivalent on your remote is). That will bring that info display back up and leave it up. Kodi remembers the last config for that, so if you manually bring up the info display once, it will always come up and stay there.

eljejer · 2024-06-06, 13:31

Thanks for your reply. So do I understand correctly than; this "configuration" influences Kodi behaviour only and not so much AS behavior?
I would like very much AS to stay visible including the controls at the top of the screen when playback starts.
Is this not effectuated with the configuration in question then?
If yes, I understand what to do. If not, I'm still not sure how to achieve above mentioned behaviour (of AS being visible permanently with the controls)

**pkscout** · 2024-06-06, 23:05

(2024-06-06, 13:31)eljejer Wrote: Thanks for your reply. So do I understand correctly than; this "configuration" influences Kodi behaviour only and not so much AS behavior?
I would like very much AS to stay visible including the controls at the top of the screen when playback starts.
Is this not effectuated with the configuration in question then?
If yes, I understand what to do. If not, I'm still not sure how to achieve above mentioned behaviour (of AS being visible permanently with the controls)

This is a Kodi/skin behavior. For clarity, Artist Slideshow shows nothing. It only provides the skin a path to an image file to show. All the display is up to the skin. What I described in my previous post is how you achieve that with the default Estuary skin. If you have other questions about the display of information, you need to post that in the thread for the skin you are using.

Also, please don't private message me with links to your responses. I visit the forum pretty regularly and do try and keep up with the threads for the addons I maintain. I don't do private message support, and I don't need extra notifications about posts to threads I'm checking.

C.O.D. · 2024-06-07, 13:48

Hey @pkscout
I have the problem that KODI crashes / freezes reliably when I listen to music with the TIDAL2 addon and have the artist slideshow activated at the same time - it always happens when I switch between songs. I've already suspected and deactivated all kinds of add-ons and have now even switched to a KODI flatpak installation, which has given me the best running KODI installation I've ever had but unfortunately hasn't changed the problem. I also suspected the inputstream.ffmpegdirect addon, but it wasn't the case either. When I listen to normal music from the library or radio I have no problems with the Artist Slideshow, only with the TIDAL2 addon. I can also run the wildest visualizations instead of the Artist Slideshow in conjunction with TIDAL - no problem at all, KODI then runs for hours without freezing.
As I said, it is a flatpak installation on PC / Manjaro Linux, I have attached a log file, the debug version was probably too big for the pastebin, unfortunately I could not upload it.
I really hope that you can help me with this,

thanks in advance

https://paste.kodi.tv/herewobuxe.kodi

**pkscout** · 2024-06-07, 22:28

(2024-06-07, 13:48)C.O.D. Wrote: Hey @pkscout
I have the problem that KODI crashes / freezes reliably when I listen to music with the TIDAL2 addon and have the artist slideshow activated at the same time - it always happens when I switch between songs. I've already suspected and deactivated all kinds of add-ons and have now even switched to a KODI flatpak installation, which has given me the best running KODI installation I've ever had but unfortunately hasn't changed the problem. I also suspected the inputstream.ffmpegdirect addon, but it wasn't the case either. When I listen to normal music from the library or radio I have no problems with the Artist Slideshow, only with the TIDAL2 addon. I can also run the wildest visualizations instead of the Artist Slideshow in conjunction with TIDAL - no problem at all, KODI then runs for hours without freezing.
As I said, it is a flatpak installation on PC / Manjaro Linux, I have attached a log file, the debug version was probably too big for the pastebin, unfortunately I could not upload it.
I really hope that you can help me with this,

thanks in advance

https://paste.kodi.tv/herewobuxe.kodi

Unfortunately that log doesn't have the debug logging for AS turned on (you have to turn that on in the AS settings *and* have Kodi debug logging on to get the full debug). That said, I'm not sure what that's going to tell me anyway, as the log you provided just stops with no indication what might have crashed Kodi. If you haven't, I would try with the default Estuary skin and the TIDAL add-on. AS technically just gets an image path and sticks that information somewhere the skin can then display it, which is why I'm wondering if you have the issue with the default Estuary skin.

lotte67890 · 2024-06-17, 01:16

Hi, having a fresh installation (RPI 5/Libreelec 12.0/Kodi 21.0) I wonder where or if there´s a setting where I can configure that the Images from my fallback folder, which do not have an aspect ratio of 16:9, can show a black instead of the default background from (Estuary MOD V2). I looked at the wiki page of AS but can´t find the probably correct setting "Use transparent background when no artist found".

Thanks a lot!

Lotte

**pkscout** · 2024-06-17, 03:15

(2024-06-17, 01:16)lotte67890 Wrote: Hi, having a fresh installation (RPI 5/Libreelec 12.0/Kodi 21.0) I wonder where or if there´s a setting where I can configure that the Images from my fallback folder, which do not have an aspect ratio of 16:9, can show a black instead of the default background from (Estuary MOD V2). I looked at the wiki page of AS but can´t find the probably correct setting "Use transparent background when no artist found".

Thanks a lot!

Lotte

There is no setting in AS for that. AS technically just gets the path to an image and then passes it to the skin. The skin does all the display work, including what to show behind an image that isn't 16x9 (and even *how* to display an image that isn't 16x9).

lotte67890 · 2024-06-17, 09:24

Hi PKScout, thank you for the quick answer. May I ask if you know any hint how to get the background black? On my other Kodi installation running with libreelec 9.2 and Kodi 18.9 this used to work (out of the box).