CeeGee,

Maybe the best approach will be to make all the meta data available via their own substition variables (there isn't currently one of artist) and then allow you to mix and match as you see please. For example:

<field type="banner" value="[artist-name]/[genre-name]" row="2" ... />

The other thing that might help is if you could specify different layouts for each playback mode rather than the current one-fits-all approach.

From memory I think you can have up to 5 scrolling banners. But there's a cpu cost for scrolling each banner and so you might start experiencing skipping during playback if you add too many.

As for "pary mode" - all I can say is that it sounds good - go for it. I'd be more than willing to help out.

Cheers
Paul