Canada
In many places I would like to display both the album cover and the artist image. I like using artist images as backdrops since it is too much work to find fanart for 2500 artists! I got my artist images from the AudioScrobbler scan, which is awesome, and more often than not the artist images suit a widescreen resolution. They look great in the Artist view, but I would like them to display in Album view, NowPlaying, MyLyrics, LastFm as well.
I have been able to do this by referencing the Thumbs folder directly, for example:
However, since the User Data path varies between Xp and Vista, this won't work for XP users.
So, I have two questions:
1. Is there a better way to do this?
2. Is there any way to represent a variable for the path within the skin xml?
I have been able to do this by referencing the Thumbs folder directly, for example:
Code:
<texture>C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\thumbs\Music\Artists\#Play.Current.ArtistL.jpg</texture>However, since the User Data path varies between Xp and Vista, this won't work for XP users.
So, I have two questions:
1. Is there a better way to do this?
2. Is there any way to represent a variable for the path within the skin xml?