Music
Music is the component of XBMC that tames your hunger for great music. Some of the key features of Music are:
Music Key Features
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Using Music
You will find the interface of Music as easy to operate as the rest of XBMC.
Here you can see the default keymapping for:
OSD (On Screen Display)
There are two different On Screen Displays (or "OSD" for short) available in Music:
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Sources for Music
- See main article: Media Sources
XBMC gives you the ability to listen to music from a variety of sources, click here for more information and examples of Types of Media Sources (link).
Some examples of sources that allow you to easily access all your digital music collection:
- On your computer or a NAS (Network Attached Storage) device/system, which supports SMB file sharing
- Stored directly on the hard drive of your Xbox
- On CDs/DVDs in the Xbox DVD drive
- Streamed from the Internet
For information on how to configure remote file shares, please click here (link)
Listing Modes Available in Music
Files ViewFiles View is the most basic way of browing your music. In Files View, you browse through your sources folder by folder, in the exact same way they are stored. What you see in Files View is the same as you would see if you were to browse the folders on your computer. |
Karaoke
Playlists
Album Art & Thumbnails
The same goes for playlists, cue-sheets, SHOUTcast, and internet-stream files, eg: Music\path\audioplaylistname.m3u Music\path\audioplaylistname.tbn Music\path\cuelistname.cue Music\path\cuelistname.tbn Music\path\shoutcastlinkname.pls Music\path\shoutcastlinkname.tbn Music\path\audiostreamname.strm Music\path\audiostreamname.tbn If you store each of your music-albums or artists in a separate subfolder to keep things organized, you can also make the folder have a custom thumbnail image. To do this you need to rename your .jpg thumbnail as folder.jpg and place it in the folder (the size of the picture can be anything from 64x64 to 256x256 in pixel size). Example: Music\path\album\folder.jpg Now your album/artist folder will have a lovely custom thumbnail-image. You can via advancedsettings.xml change the default filename of the image that XBMC uses for music folders. See the <musicthumbs> tag. for more information. |