Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="Dadeo" data-source="post: 490445" data-attributes="member: 27204">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.&nbsp; 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:[CODE]&lt;texture&gt;C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\thumbs\Music\Artists\#Play.Current.ArtistL.jpg&lt;/texture&gt;[/CODE]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?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dadeo, post: 490445, member: 27204"] 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: [CODE]<texture>C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\thumbs\Music\Artists\#Play.Current.ArtistL.jpg</texture>[/CODE] 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? [/QUOTE]

Verification