(2024-06-17, 09:24)lotte67890 Wrote: 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).Which skin are you using?
(2024-06-17, 09:24)lotte67890 Wrote: 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).I'm sorry, no. With the default Estuary skin, images are scaled to fill the screen, so there is no background. My Estuary mod has an option to not scale the images, and with that the background is black. I didn't do anything other than not scale the images though, so the black background is just the way the stock Estuary works. With Estuary Mod 2 (which you said you are running), I don't know what they did differently, so if you aren't getting a black background, it would be best to ask in their thread in the skins section about that.
(2024-07-07, 08:46)dawsonjw Wrote: Hello @pkscout,If you turn on debug logging in both Kodi and the Artist Slideshow addon, you can see all the information that AS uses to display artists. There are no standards for streaming music metadata, so it can be a bit of a crap shoot both in terms of the accuracy of the artist display and the stability in terms of proper transitions.
Just hoping you could provide some input into an issue I am seeing. Generally AS works just great when playing local music however when playing radio streams it will at times show the wrong artist. In fact when this occurs the artist displaying gets stuck and it displays the same picture without any updating. I have noticed that starting and stopping the feed numerous times may clear the problem but not always. I am wondering if there is a way to see what data the stream is providing so it may become obvious as to whether the stream is not passing any data or AS is not reading it correctly?
I am using arctic zephyr reloaded with omega on a windows computer
Cheers
John
(2024-07-13, 00:00)pkscout Wrote:(2024-07-07, 08:46)dawsonjw Wrote: Hello @pkscout,If you turn on debug logging in both Kodi and the Artist Slideshow addon, you can see all the information that AS uses to display artists. There are no standards for streaming music metadata, so it can be a bit of a crap shoot both in terms of the accuracy of the artist display and the stability in terms of proper transitions.
Just hoping you could provide some input into an issue I am seeing. Generally AS works just great when playing local music however when playing radio streams it will at times show the wrong artist. In fact when this occurs the artist displaying gets stuck and it displays the same picture without any updating. I have noticed that starting and stopping the feed numerous times may clear the problem but not always. I am wondering if there is a way to see what data the stream is providing so it may become obvious as to whether the stream is not passing any data or AS is not reading it correctly?
I am using arctic zephyr reloaded with omega on a windows computer
Cheers
John
(2024-07-29, 07:57)dawsonjw Wrote: Hi @pkscout,There's not really a solution for that. There is no standard for multiple artists in the artist field, so AS has a couple ways it checks that are kind of standard. One is featured artists (feat. or ft.), and the other one is if they are separated with a slash ('/'). It's too much of a wack-a-mole to keep adding separators, and there's a real danger that something like a + sign would end up splitting valid artists.
Just wondering if you have a solution for this issue.
My local radio station populates the artist field with two names if the title is a collaboration. An example would be thus. “QUEEN [+] BOWIE”. I am guessing the [+] is what is what is confusing the issue or maybe that two artists are found. Is there a way to just display the first artist found?
Cheers
John
(2024-07-29, 12:33)pkscout Wrote:Hi(2024-07-29, 07:57)dawsonjw Wrote: Hi @pkscout,There's not really a solution for that. There is no standard for multiple artists in the artist field, so AS has a couple ways it checks that are kind of standard. One is featured artists (feat. or ft.), and the other one is if they are separated with a slash ('/'). It's too much of a wack-a-mole to keep adding separators, and there's a real danger that something like a + sign would end up splitting valid artists.
Just wondering if you have a solution for this issue.
My local radio station populates the artist field with two names if the title is a collaboration. An example would be thus. “QUEEN [+] BOWIE”. I am guessing the [+] is what is what is confusing the issue or maybe that two artists are found. Is there a way to just display the first artist found?
Cheers
John
(2024-08-04, 22:12)HeresJohnny Wrote: Artist separators are defined in advancedsettings.xml - why is there a need for this add-on to check for separators on its own?If Kodi passes back an array of artists for the playing music, AS uses that, but because streaming music and radio stations aren't in the library, Kodi passes nothing back. In that case AS has to check whatever string is coming from those sources in the stream data. If Kodi was ever updated to grab the artist information from streams directly and have it available for AS to use, it will use that first automatically.
(2024-10-08, 04:14)Libre888 Wrote: Hi @pkscoutI'd need a debug log (with both Kodi and ArtistSlideshow set to debug) to see what might be happening. AS uses Kodi's built in virtual file system to store and retrieve things, and it's possible it doesn't know what to do with WebDAV. It's also possible it's a skin issue, as AS doesn't actually display anything, it just tells the skin where the image is.
I use NAS at home to store my music and artist image files. WebDAV is used to access the files. However, when I am away, I can play music, but Artist Slideshow can not display image files. It shows a blank screen while music is playing. I am pretty sure the Custom location setup in Storage is correct.
If I am at home and change the connection and other setup via SMB accordingly, everything is fine.
I am using an Android pad (Android V14) and Kodi 21.1.
