-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday, 2017-12-30 at 21:28 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Saturday, 2017-12-30 at 20:03 -0000, Dave Howorth wrote:
I just installed kodi but I'm having trouble making it work. I have several questions:
(3) I have a directory with some audio files that VLC is happy to play. I imported the top-level directory into kodi and it sees the sub-directory structure but it sees the leaf directories where the audio files are as empty. What am I doing wrong?
I installed it because I understand it is a popular and easy to use program but so far, very much not so.
It is confusing initially, I agree. I had the same problem.
You do not need to import directories, but configure an entry for them under "Music" main menu. Huh, I have to go out now.
It says there is an empty collection, fill it. It proposes to enter the archive section or remove entry from menu. I enter. Add music. A dialog opens. Browse or search. The list is a bit confusing, but one entry is for the filesystem root. Select the directory that has the music, then it will prompt for a name to give, by default the directory name. Then Ok. It will scan it. In mine it then creates list of authors, albums, genres,.. a lot. It is still searching, I don't use Kodi for audio. For videos it searches on internet and finds descriptions of them. Kodi is designed for media centers, not exactly for computers. I use a little machine with external big disks as home server and media machine to watch TV, and here Kodi works well. It crashes often, though. And als hangs sometimes, so I start it directly from a terminal son that I can do "control-C" on the terminal and kill it. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlpIAdsACgkQtTMYHG2NR9Vx4wCfXQ5jH6C/3/+vQ21lvGOB0TL1 4CMAni4H3u6ioLR6U+LcKX1TWKIsDFn+ =YOEj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org