De tweede bèta van Kodi 16.0 is uitgekomen. Kodi is crossplatform-mediacentersoftware die wordt ontwikkeld voor Windows, OS X, Linux, Android en iOS. Naast het opbouwen van een bibliotheek van video's heeft de multimediaspeler ook de mogelijkheid om een muziekbibliotheek samen te stellen als de muziek van de juiste tags is voorzien, zoals ID3v1, v2.3 of v2.4, Vorbis Comments en Ape.
Caveates to music library:
- Your music needs to be properly tagged. For example with ID3v1, ID3v2.3, ID3v2.4, Vorbis Comments or APE
- If not properly tagged Kodi can’t properly organise it and things might be completely misplaced.
- Properly tagging music files can be a tedious job however there are several tools for assisting on that: MusicBrainz Picard, Mp3Tag, TagScanner and so on
- Scanning these files could take quite a while before it’s finished depending on the amount
Advantages to music library:
- You will get an awesome looking library view just like for movies and tvshows
- You can search your music files
- Library splits up the music in sections: Genres, Artists, Albums, Singles, All songs, Years, Top 100(based on your playback), Recently added/played albums, Compilations
- You can split everything up even further using smartplaylists
- You can rate your music and filter based on that
- Since Kodi also acts as UPnP server you can share them over you home-network if the clients support this
- You can scan for additional information like artist biography or album review/synopsis (right click or C key in album or artist library)
- This can be enabled by default in settings -> music -> library -> “Fetch additional information during updates”
- You can change the default language for online information by going to settings -> addon-ons -> my add-ons -> Information providers -> Album or artist information -> open the universal album or artist scraper
Although music library is not yet at the same level as movies or tv shows, there is certainly work being done in this area to make it better. Stay tuned for next version.
Fixes done in this beta 2:
- Fixed: Library export now shows the correct dialogs
- Fixed: Don’t include broken add-ons in the update panel which is accessed through add-on information
- Fixed: Next recording widget for PVR
- Fixed: Timer dialog fixes for PVR
- Fixed: Ignore volume changes on corked sink for Pulse
- Fixed: Don’t show repeating timers on PVR recording list
- Fixed: Redact file name in log output for smb://
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