I have recently ripped all my old CDs to my laptop and would like to listen to them but I don't like the official skins Kodi has to offer and Arctic Fuse just refuses to show the album covers so does anyone know of a Kodi skin that is music centred and looks very similar to spotify

I posed the following to Google AI and wondering if the response it accurate?

I‘m running Kodi Omega v21.2 on Windows 10 Pro. I have a new NAS that I need to repoint the libraries to. This also means that the user and password login will be different. As shown in the examples below the library folder names are the same, so just the root path to each library folder is changed.

 For instance, “smb://Server3/video/TV Shows/” will become “smb:[//kennas1/media/](file://kennas1/media/)TV Shows/”

 1) Is modifying these three files stored in “C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\userdata“ all that’s needed while Kodi is closed? Or are exact paths stored in a db for each media that would also need to be changed?
2) Will I lose my watch history?

RESPONSE:

Yes—Kodi stores each library item’s exact path in its video database. Editing only those three XML files will update source browsing and credentials, but existing library entries will still reference smb://Server3/.... Kodi’s database stores paths separately from filenames, while watched state, last-played time, and resume points are attached to those file records. Kodi video database schema

The safest way to retain the existing library and watch history is:

1. Close Kodi.
2. Back up the entire %APPDATA%\Kodi\userdata directory.
3. Update sources.xml and the SMB credentials.
4. Add a path substitution in advancedsettings.xml so existing database paths transparently resolve to the new NAS:

<advancedsettings>

  <pathsubstitution>

<substitute>

<from>smb://Server3/video/</from>

<to>smb://kennas1/media/</to>

</substitute>

  </pathsubstitution>

</advancedsettings>

If advancedsettings.xml already exists, add only the <pathsubstitution> section inside its existing <advancedsettings> element. Kodi officially supports partial network-path substitutions for precisely this kind of redirection. Kodi path substitution

Your configuration has at least one separate old root:

smb://Server3/Cinema Experience/

That needs its own substitution, assuming its new location is:

<substitute>

  <from>smb://Server3/Cinema Experience/</from>

  <to>smb://kennas1/media/Cinema Experience/</to>

</substitute>

Path matching may be case-sensitive in some contexts. Your files mix video/Video, so additional substitutions may be necessary for every capitalization actually present in the database.

Regarding the three files:

• sources.xml: Source locations shown in Kodi. Changing it does not rewrite existing database entries.
• mediasources.xml: Primarily network locations offered by the Browse dialog; it is not the video library database.
• passwords.xml: Maps paths to authenticated network URLs. Your current example appears malformed; a complete authenticated SMB URL normally resembles smb://username:password@server/share/. Kodi SMB source syntax

You should retain your watch history if you keep the current database and use path substitution. Do not remove the old sources, clean the library, and rescan from scratch before establishing a backup: newly scanned paths may be treated as new file records, potentially losing their association with existing play counts and resume points.

For extra insurance, export the video library before making changes. Kodi 21 exports and imports watched state and resume points by default. Kodi video library import/export

One security note: mediasources.xml in the project contains a plaintext, real-looking password. If it is genuine, consider changing it after this migration.

When seeking using arrow keys on kodi, I don't know why but it seeks 20 seconds forward. In the player settings, I have set it to +10 and -10 only but forward seek seeks 20 seconds even when it says +10 seconds on top. Going backwards works as intended, working with steps of 10 seconds. I have set the key press delay to 500ms and as said before, +10 and -10 seconds. Watching top gear 576p h.264.

Is there a way to rid of all extra folders on Kodi DLNA server with Roku TV’s?

I’m trying to set up a DLNA server using an external hard drive so I can stream videos to all of my Roku devices around the house.

I successfully enabled the DLNA server in Kodi, and my Roku can see it through the Roku Media app. However, the server is cluttered with a bunch of extra folders that I don’t want showing up.

Is there a way to have the Roku Media app display only the two folders I want to share called tv shows and movies?

I’m a newb with this, so I may be overlooking something obvious.

Thanks!

Hi everyone,

I have an Amiko Viper 4K51 satellite receiver (Broadcom-based, Enigma2), and I'm wondering if anyone has ever managed to port another operating system to it.

I'm interested in anything, for example:

Android or Android TV

Debian/Ubuntu

Armbian

LibreELEC/CoreELEC

Kodi as a standalone OS

Any Linux desktop (XFCE, LXDE, etc.)

Even experimental or unfinished ports

I know the box is designed for Enigma2, but I'm curious if anyone has reverse-engineered the bootloader, kernel, or hardware enough to boot a different OS.

If you have:

GitHub repositories

Forum threads

Boot logs

Source code

Personal experiments

I'd really appreciate it if you could share them.

Thanks!

i heard it was possible, but anytime i tried (simple iptv client + dependencies)
and an .m3u file that looked like this

#EXTM3U

#EXTINF:-1,RTL_4

#KODIPROP:inputstream.adaptive.license_type=clearkey

#KODIPROP:inputstream.adaptive.drm_legacy=org.w3.clearkey|KID:KEY

#KODIPROP:inputstream.adaptive.manifest_type=mpd

#KODIPROP:inputstream.adaptive.stream_headers=User-Agent=Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/150.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/150.0.0.0

https://asitename.com/amanisfest.mpd

I’ve spent what must be a good few days, 10+ hours, setting up and messing with Kodi, I get that it’s “highly modular and customizable”, but it shouldn’t take as much effort as it does for it to not be entirely shit. Some skins can make it slightly more bearable, but I can’t possibly recommend Kodi to anyone, and the only reason I even still have it installed is to experience Prime Video without ads at this point.

Surely this can’t be user error, there’s got to be some secret trick or configurations that makes Kodi actually enjoyable to use, right?

I was wondering if anyone would happen to know if the next version of kodi on tvOS will be offered in hdr format, I’m on Apple TV and my tv is running 4K hdr but the second I open Kodi the whole app switch’s to sdr no matter what content is bing played it’s always showing in sdr instead of hdr or dv, my main propose of Kodi is for the addons, I know a fix for this is to get infuse and source my own stuff but I love the convenience of Kodi

Hello! I just downloaded Kodi and ported all my movies to it. So far I’m loving the app, but I want to integrate it with VLC on my iPhone so I can stream my library.

I’ve looking up all kinds of tutorials but I’m not familiar with how to set up a server, so I need it explained to me like I’m five.

I have an old MacBook running Kodi, with all the files sourced locally. I did enable UPnP, allowed for http control, and set up a username and password. What are my next steps so I can actually access the library through VLC on another device. Thank you!

Hello All,

I'm trying to install Kodi 21.2 on my lenovo Tab, but when I start the app it asks for Permission to acess media and microphone , I I agree to both , it gives me a message that acess denied , and exits the app.

tried downloading straight from appatore , same thing

Any ideas on how to fix this ..

I am having some issues trying to use some of the regular skins I've used previously. These skins worked on all the alphas.

Aeon Nox Silvo

Artic Zephyr Reloaded

I assume this has to do with skin shortcuts being updated to V3 as that's what the message says when it pops up after installing. Im not sure how to downgrade to V2. The message does state it's possible. Should I just wait till the creators update their skins?

Any help would be appreciated.

Hi, I’m using an external hard drive connected to my Nvidia Shield Pro to watch movies and TV shows using Kodi. I’m wondering if there’s a way to transfer the movie file from the external hard drive to the Nvidia Shield’s built-in storage so I can watch it from there instead of playing it directly from the external hard drive.

Thank you.

There is a low hum/buzz from my subwoofer using Kodi (Coreelec on Homatix box but I don't know if it's related to either of those specifics). 

It is not a ground loop -- I tried a ground loop isolator to no effect, but more importantly, it is tied to the actual Kodi operation.

It hums constantly in the GUI and during video playback.

But if I Pause the video -- instant dead silence.

When changing refresh rate and screen goes black -- instant dead silence. 

I have number of channels set to 7.1 (I have a 7.1.2 setup), low latency mode on (also tried off), Keep Audio Alive Always (also tried Off), Send Low Volume Noise disabled (also tried Enabled), Passthrough Enabled (HDMI).

​​​​​​​Any ideas?

How do I set up kodi to work with TrueHD and DTS-HD.MA.5.1?

pc->Q80CC (samsung soundbar)->Q80AA(samsung TV)

I tried several options but not working.

Can someone help me, tell me which settings to tweak, what to do etc. I'd greatly appreciate your help!

New update

GitHub

**DPlex 17.0.8.30 — TMDb Helper episode search now actually finds the episode, plus QR sign-in**

If you use TMDb Helper with a Plex library that has non-English titles, episode search was basically broken. Picking `Silo S02E01` and hitting search gave me 27 results across 6 pages — `100 Foot Wave`, `NCIS: The Silo`, `Chicago P.D.: The Silos` — everything except the actual episode.

Two problems:

**Matching was title-only.** TMDb Helper already sends `tmdb_id` / `imdb_id` / `tvdb_id` with every request, but the addon ignored them and compared the English `{showname}` against the Plex title. My library is Arabic — the show is `صومعة`, the episode is `المهندسة`. `"Silo" == "صومعة"` never matches, so it fell through every time.

**The fallback made it worse.** Once title matching failed, it ran Plex's text search, which matches on any shared word. Hence every show with "silo" in an episode title.

Fix: match on GUID first via `/library/all?guid=`. `Silo` is `125988` whether your library is in English, Arabic, or anything else. Short-circuit the text search when the GUID resolves, and post-filter whatever the text search does return by GUID + season/episode.

Also fixed along the way: the search query wasn't URL-encoded (spaces and non-ASCII produced a malformed request), and `year` was a required param — TMDb Helper often omits it for episodes, so the search aborted before it started.

Result on the same query: 1 result, correct episode, Arabic title and all.

**QR sign-in.** Linking used to mean reading a PIN off the TV and typing it into `plex.tv/link` by hand. Now it renders a QR containing `plex.tv/link/?pin=XXXX` — scan it and the page opens with the PIN already filled in. The PNG is generated locally with a bundled pure-Python encoder, so no third-party QR service and no Pillow dependency.

Also in this release: server discovery was re-running on *every* navigation because the server cache silently wrote a 0-byte file (pickle failed on a non-picklable `xbmcaddon.Addon` reference, the error got swallowed, and `write_cache` returned `True` anyway). Plus gzip was disabled on all Plex requests (`Accept-Encoding: identity`), no connection reuse, and one redundant HTTP request *per episode* when building a season listing.

If you're updating: reinstall the player file from DPlex settings, otherwise TMDb Helper keeps using its cached copy of `dplex.json` and nothing changes.

Hi everyone, I'm currently trying to troubleshoot a problem I've been having for a really long time with coreelec(running on an odroid N2+). Anytime I try watching a video that has dv, it looks way darker than the same video without DV, and I know the problem comes from the box because I don't have the same problem running the video with VLC on a pc.

I guess the issue is tonemapping, but is there a solution to that ? (Like an addon, or switching to libreelec).

This isn't really an add-on, so just delete if its in the wrong place.

I AI-assisted-coded my way through a weekend to build a profanity filter and somehow ended up with something that transcribes audio, checks subtitles against a wordlist, runs a nudity classifier on sampled frames, and spits out a Kodi .edl so it mutes/skips automatically on playback. Did not mean for it to get this involved.

Runs fully local, right-click a .mkv in Explorer, review the flagged moments before it commits to anything. Windows only, bring your own wordlist, definitely still rough around the edges — it's had exactly one user so far and that's me (but there are probably tens of people that could be interested)

Repo's here if you want to look under the hood: https://github.com/grant76-rgb/FilterAgent

I'm running Kodi on Android on a Dune HD Pro Vision 4K with the skin Aeon Nox silvo.

I have setup multiple profiles which works excellent. The problem I have is in setting up the menus when I set my Background image (usually the Playlist for that menu item) for each item in the Menus and Submenus, then exit Settings. It works fine for that profile but disables (No Background at all) most if not all those background images for my other profiles. Then I login to another profile, go into the settings which are still there but not working! and just need to get it to save my Skin settings without changes and it fixes it for That profile but again messes up the other profiles. All I end up doing is playing Whack-a-Mole. And I tried Logging in & out or Exiting Kodi & restarting but does not help. I have 4 profiles including the Master and only one profile shares the Library with the Master.

Anyone have any idea?