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You will find a large amount of plugins, skins and other goodies for it. In the end you need to give it a test drive in order to see it yourself. There is much more to say about the endless features but I will leave that to the excellent Kodi home page. I can now enjoy my media with Kodi from any device wherever I am. It was as easy as everything else in Kodi, to setup all my clients (Windows and Android) to access the media from the NAS. All my media is now on that storage device.
I recently added a NAS to my home network.
I wish I had a little more manual overwrite options through the GUI for those cases. In some rare cases Kodi picked the wrong or no information for some exotic items I had. Next time you navigate to your Movies gallery you will probably sigh a little “wow”. Of course you need to name the files and folder sensefully but that’s really all it takes. It scans all subfolders and files and downloads all relevant information (text, thumbnails, sounds, etc) from the Internet.
Point to a folder containing your files, indicate what type of files there are (Movies, TV Shows, etc.) and Kodi does the rest. Maintaining your media library is simple joy with Kodi.
Don’t ask me why the simplest media player can do that but most of the Media Center Software cannot. Instead you have to type in a time position via the keyboard.
Most annoying for me still is that you cannot freely pick a position in your media file by clicking on the progress bar while it is playing. Kodi offers good mouse support throughout the application which is not always self understanding as I learned. If you are a bit famiiar with XML files you can even tweak it some more from under the hood. It played all media files I fed it with, it offers convincing media library features and is highly configurable with custom skins and backdrops (wallpaper images you can select as backgrounds for different screens). Kodi turned out to be the most reliable and easy to use product for me. The team has therefore decided to rename the product, now called Kodi. Windows, Mac, Linux, Android) and in over 30 languages.Īfter years of constant work and improvements the product has far separated itself from its Xbox roots. More than 50 software developers have contributed to Kodi which is available for more than eight platforms (e.g. I find it outstanding in this category and is my editor’s choice.Ĭreated in 2003 by a group of like minded programmers as XBMC, today’s Kodi is a non-profit project run and developed by volunteers located around the world. Kodi can probably be considered as the one that started this type of media software. If you use a home theater computer feeding your big screen TV it is an ideal companion for managing and playing your audio and video collections. Kodi (previously know as XBMC) is a multimedia application perfectly suited for large screens. Single application – beautiful GUI (many skins available) – many plugins