Kodi

Kodi (formerly XBMC) is a free and open-source media player software application developed by the XBMC Foundation" (from Wikipedia)

https://kodi.tv/

Library

Library management is the reason why i started using Kodi in the first place.

The tricky part is, the names of the files you want to add to Kodi, need to be in the correct form:

• Movies:

Movie Title (YEAR)/Movie Title (YEAR).extension
Movie Title (YEAR).extension

• TV Shows

TV Show Title (YEAR)/
                   Season NUMBER/
                                Episode Title.extension 
                         or     TV Show Title (YEAR) Episode Title.extension 

more from Kodi's wiki : https://kodi.wiki/view/Naming_video_files

Renaming Files (fast)

• example filename to "standardize":

TV Show 2006 2x13 Episode Title XviD [MM]blabla.avi

• command to rename all .avi files in current directory

rename -v 's/^(.*) 2006 [0-9]x([0-9][0-9])(.*)$/$1 S03E$3$4/' *.avi

• more examples

• 2ACX12-Episode Title.rm

rename 's/2ACX([0-9][0-9]) - (\w+)/TV Show S02E$1 $2/' *.rm -v 

• TV Show - 4ACX29 - Episode Title -.avi

rename 's/TV Show - 4ACX([0-9][0-9]) - (\w+)/TV Show S04E$1 $2/' *.avi -vn

• S1EP02.avi

rename 's/(.*)/TV Show $1/' *.avi

• TV Show [3x01] Episode Title.avi

rename -v 's/(.*) \[([0-9])x([0-9][0-9])\] (.*)\.avi/$1 S0$2E$3 $4\.avi/' *.avi

Database

• database location

/home/osmc/.kodi/userdata/Database/

• or

/home/xbian/.kodi/userdata/Database/

• database files

MyVideosxxx.db.

• sqlite

advancedsettings.xml

Manually edit

• Offline

1. shutdown kodi
2. mount microSD on a linux computer (or any reading ext4 filesystems)
3. open the file with sqlite
4. execute needed queries, see examples

• the following query changes the source of a title from local path to NFS

update 'path' set 
 strPath = replace(strPath, '/media/vol1/Videos/', 'nfs://192.168.0.1/nfs/Public/Shared Videos/')
where
 strPath like '/media/vol1/Videos/%';
Result: query executed successfully. Took 1ms, 19 rows affected

Debug

Log:

tail -f  /home/xbian/.kodi/temp/kodi.log

default password

• xbian distribution

user:xbian
pass:raspberry

• OSMC distribution

user:osmc
pass:osmc