Supplemental tools

Supplemental tools

A list of 3rd party applications that may help you maintain and modify your media files. Just like Kodi, most of these applications are provided free to use and survive on donations. Please consider donating.

Note: inclusion in this list is not a recommendation or endorsement by Kodi.

Music File Tools

Bulk Rename Utility

Bulk Rename Utility allows you to easily rename files and entire folders based upon extremely flexible criteria. Add date/time stamps, replace numbers, insert text, convert case, add auto-numbers, process folders and sub-folders....plus a whole lot more!

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Exact Audio Copy

Exact Audio Copy (also known as EAC), a CD grabber program, is efficient, easy to use and is more intuitive than most other CD ripping programs on the market. It handles CD imperfections with ease and is the ideal CD grabber for an audiophile.

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MediaInfo

MediaInfo is a convenient unified display of the most relevant technical and tag data for video and audio files.

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MKVToolNix

Convert audio files like mp3 and flac into the .mka AudioBook format.

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Wiki- Audiobooks

Mp3tag

Mp3tag is a powerful and easy-to-use tool to edit metadata of audio files.

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MusicBrainz Picard

Picard is a cross-platform music tagger written in Python. It has an easy to use interface and provides detailed embedded tags for music files. Kodi has strong support for MusicBrainz tagging.

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Video File Tools

Aegisub

Aegisub is a free, cross-platform open source tool for creating and modifying subtitles. Aegisub makes it quick and easy to time subtitles to audio, and features many powerful tools for styling them, including a built-in real-time video preview. Although this has not received updates since 2014, there have been no changes to subtitles in many years to warrant a new update.

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Avidemux

Avidemux is a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. Perfect for quickly cutting commercials out of tv recordings.

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Bulk Rename Utility

Bulk Rename Utility allows you to easily rename files and entire folders based upon extremely flexible criteria. Add date/time stamps, replace numbers, insert text, convert case, add auto-numbers, process folders and sub-folders....plus a whole lot more!

Website- Click here

HandBrake

HandBrake is a tool for converting video from nearly any format to a selection of modern, widely supported codecs

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FileBot

FileBot is the ultimate tool for organizing and renaming your Movies, TV Shows and Anime as well as fetching subtitles and artwork. It's smart and just works.

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MakeMKV

MakeMKV is your one-click solution to convert DVD and Bluray discs that you own into free and patents-unencumbered format that can be played everywhere. MakeMKV is a format converter, otherwise called "transcoder".

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MediaInfo

MediaInfo is a convenient unified display of the most relevant technical and tag data for video and audio files.

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MKVToolNix

MKVToolNix is a set of tools to create, alter and inspect Matroska files.

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Subtitle Edit

Subtitle Edit is a free (open source) editor for video subtitles.

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Library Managers

Ember Media Manager

Ember Media Manager is the all in one media manager for Kodi. An open source media manager for Windows.

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Forum- Kodi forum

Media Companion

Media Companion is the original free to use Movie/TV Show manager and organizer that offers full Kodi integration.

Website- Click here

Forum- Kodi forum

MediaElch

MediaElch is a free Media Manager for movies and tv shows. It supports generating of nfo files and also directly manipulating Kodi's database (SQLite). Artwork will be stored along movies and tv shows (when using nfos) or directly in Kodi's thumbnail folder. Built with Qt MediaElch is available for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux.

Website- Click here

Forum- Kodi forum

TinyMediaManager

TinyMediaManager is a media management tool for movies, moviesets and TV shows, which is written in Java/Swing. It supports importing and exporting of NFO files, downloading of artwork and renaming of media files along with the corresponding NFOs and artwork.

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Forum- Kodi forum