Add-on:Rapier
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The goal is to provide a simple to use but clean and elegant interface that focuses on efficiency when browsing your media. Important considerations are put on usability, performance, and providing the user with flexibility when it comes to customization. Rapier tries to support all the latest features Kodi has to offer as long as it fits in with the skin's design goals.
Installing
This add-on is installed from the Add-on browser located in Kodi as follows:
Development version / Gade's Add-on Repository
I have created an add-on repository for Rapier and my other add-ons. This means that if you install this repository, you will always automatically receive the newest and freshest development updates of Rapier. You will still automatically get the official updates.
To install this repository, you must do so by following these steps:
- Download the zip file containing Gade's Add-on Repository from Github
- Start Kodi
- Navigate to Settings
- Add-ons
- Install from zip file
- Locate the zip file you downloaded
- Install
Recommended Kodi settings:
- Settings > System > Add-ons > Updates:
- - Install updates automatically
- Settings > System > Add-ons > Unknown sources:
- - Enabled
- Settings > System > Add-ons > Update official add-ons from (Kodi 19 Matrix only):
- - Any repositories
After this, you will automatically receive the latest development versions directly within Kodi.
Required add-ons
To get the most out of Rapier the following add-ons are required - they should be installed automatically when installing the skin. If this is not the case, please install using the XBMC Add-on Manager or manually using the links below. Certain skin features will not be available if one or more of these add-ons are not installed on your system.
- Favourites
- Embuary Helper (Added from Rapier 12 / Kodi 19!)
- Skin Helper Service (Moved to Supported Add-ons from Rapier 12 / Kodi 19!)
- Skin Helper Widgets (Support removed from Rapier 12 / Kodi 19!)
- TV Show Next Aired (Support removed from Rapier 12 / Kodi 19!)
- White Studio Icons add-on
Supported add-ons (Kodi Add-on Repository Installation)
The following add-ons are supported by Rapier. They can be installed using the Kodi Add-on Manager or manually using the links below.
- Rapier UI Sounds
- Skin Helper Service (Moved to Supported Add-ons from Rapier 12 / Kodi 19!)
- Artist Slideshow
- Artwork Downloader (Support removed from Rapier 12 / Kodi 19!)
- Global Search
- TheMovieDb Helper (Added from Kodi 19 / Rapier 12)
- Skin Helper Backgrounds (Support removed from Rapier 12 / Kodi 19!)
- Random and Last items (Support removed from Rapier 12 / Kodi 19!)
- Image Resource Selection script
- CU LRC Lyrics
- CDArt Manager (Support removed from Rapier 12 / Kodi 19!)
- Weatherbit IO (Support removed from Rapier 12 / Kodi 19!)
- Multi Weather (Added from Rapier 12 / Kodi 19)
- ExtendedInfo Script (Support removed from Rapier 12 / Kodi 19!)
- Skin Helper Skinbackup
- Up Next
- Embuary Info (Added from Rapier 12 / Kodi 19)
- CinemaVision
- User Rating Script
- T9 Search Script
- Library Node Editor
- Audio Profiles
- Autocompletion for virtual keyboard
- Special Features
- Image resource genre icons, weather icons and genre fanart, weather fanart add-ons...
Supported add-ons (Manual Installation)
The following add-ons are supported by Rapier. They can be installed manually using the links below.
- Netflix Add-on
- Artwork Beef (Support removed from Rapier 12 / Kodi 19!)
- MyPicsDB
- IMDB Update (Support removed from Rapier 12 / Kodi 19!)
- Library Editor
- Script.youtube.browser (Support removed from Rapier 12 / Kodi 19!)
Special skin features
- All of the above mentioned add-ons
- Custom home items
- Movie, tv show and music video clear logos and clear art
- Music clear logos and cd art
- Extra fanart
- Touch support
- Splash screen (video, audio or image)
- PVR & Live TV/Radio
- Audio DSP support including all Audio DSP add-ons.
- Games support
Screenshots
Videos
Kodi 15.x - Rapier Demo
Kodi / Rapier Splash Video
Video lyrics for fullscreen music playback in Rapier
Tips and guides
Creating a custom category
- This is a step-by-step guide to adding a custom category. Up to 16 custom categories are available.
- 1. Go to Skin Settings > Home > Category Menu
- 2. Click "Add more categories"
- 3. Click "Category 1-4" to activate custom category 1-4, "Category 5-8" to activate custom category 5-8, "Category 9-12" to activate custom category 9-12 or "Category 13-16" to activate custom category 13-16
- 4. Choose between adding a custom category from one of your Favourites or from a built in skin preset.
- 5. "Path":
- If you have chosen adding a custom category from a Favourite, a dialog will open up with all your favourites. You can add almost any item within Kodi to your Favourites using the context menu.
- If you have chosen adding a custom category from a built in skin preset, the presets dialog will open up. This allows you to choose any item in the sections or to enter a custom action yourself (bottom left item).
- 6. "Name":
- Enter a name for your custom category. If no name is entered, "Custom X" (where X is the custom category number) will be used.
- If navigation buttons are disabled, it's recommended to use 11 characters or less for best results.
- If navigation buttons are enabled, it's recommended to use 10 characters or less for best results.
- Enter a name for your custom category. If no name is entered, "Custom X" (where X is the custom category number) will be used.
- 7. You can choose a category icon from any location on your system.
- 8. You can add up to 6 add-on shortcuts.
- Added from Rapier 12 / Kodi 19
- Choose between any add-on.
- Selecting an add-on shortcut will disable the category icon for the chosen category.
- 9. You can choose a widget. Adding a widget brings up a dialog:
- Movies, tv shows, music videos or albums will display recently added and in progress/featured items from your library.
- Add-ons will display random add-ons.
- Games will display all game add-ons.
- Playlist (movies, episodes or music) will display recently added and featured items from your selected playlist (useful when the custom category is a playlist from your favourites).
- In Cinemas / Upcoming Movies, Top Rated Movies / Top Rated TV Shows, Trending Movies / TV Shows will use the add-on script.extendedinfo to fill the widgets.
- Favourite (added from Rapier 12 / Kodi 19) will bring up a dialog to choose a custom top widget and a custom bottom widget using your favourites. You can choose either one, as both are not required. You can set the name and choose aspect (poster, wide or square) individually for both widgets.
- Custom (script.skinshortcuts required) will bring up a dialog to choose a custom top widget and a custom bottom widget. You can choose either one, as both are not required. You can set the name and choose aspect (poster, wide or square) individually for both widgets.
- 10. You can choose between 3 background options for your custom category.
- "Single image" will open up a dialog, where you can choose any image on your system as background for your custom category.
- "Multi image" will open up a dialog, where you can choose any folder with images on your system as multi backgrounds for your custom category.
- "Fanart" will open up a dialog, where you can choose one of the built in fanart options as background for your custom category.
- The button below will display the chosen background option and the image to the left will display the image(s).
- This is a step-by-step guide to adding, removing or editing submenus. You can add up to 7 submenus for each category.
- Go to Skin Settings > Home > Category Submenu.
- All of your enabled categories are displayed here: Music / Videos / Movies / TV Shows / Add-ons / Pictures / General / System / Live TV / Weather / Custom Category 1-16
- Clicking any of them allows you to add, remove or edit the submenus.
- To remove an existing hardcoded submenu from the Music / Videos / Movies / TV Shows / Add-ons / Pictures / General / System / Live TV / Weather categories:
- Enabling Button 1 and leaving everything else blank, will disable the existing submenu 1 for the chosen category and so on. Do this for all the submenu items you wish to remove.
- To edit any submenu item for a category:
- Enabling Button 1 and entering all the necessary information, will replace submenu 1 for the chosen category and so on. Do this for all the submenu items you wish to edit.
- 1. Click Button 1 to 7 to edit the submenu item you wish.
- 2. Choose between editing a submenu item using one of your Favourites, a built in skin preset, a script or an add-on.
- 3. "Path":
- If you have chosen editing a submenu item using one of your Favourites, a dialog will open up with all your favourites. You can add almost any item within Kodi to your Favourites using the context menu.
- If you have chosen editing a submenu item using a built in skin preset, the presets dialog will open up. This allows you to choose any item in the sections or to enter a custom action yourself (bottom left item).
- If you have chosen editing a submenu item using a script, a dialog will open up where you can select one of the scripts.
- If you have chosen editing a submenu item using an add-on, a dialog will open up where you can select one of the add-ons.
- 4. "Label" allows you to enter the name of the submenu.
- To add a submenu item for any category:
- You can add additional submenus to a category with less than 7 submenu items: eg. if a category has 4 submenus, you can enable Button 5, 6 and 7 to add 3 additional custom submenus.
- 1. Click Button 1 to 7 to add the submenu item you wish.
- 2. Choose between adding a submenu item from one of your Favourites, a built in skin preset, a script or an add-on.
- 3. "Path":
- If you have chosen adding a submenu item from a Favourite, a dialog will open up with all your favourites. You can add almost any item within Kodi to your Favourites using the context menu.
- If you have chosen adding a submenu item from a built in skin preset, the presets dialog will open up. This allows you to choose any item in the sections or to enter a custom action yourself (bottom left item).
- If you have chosen adding a submenu item from a script, a dialog will open up where you can select one of the scripts.
- If you have chosen adding a submenu item from an add-on, a dialog will open up where you can select one of the add-ons.
- 4. "Label" allows you to enter the name of the submenu.
Proper naming of files
- Rapier reads all file names.
- If you use some of the below tags in the file name, additional media flags are displayed automatically.
- "bluray" / "blu-ray" / "bdrip" / "brrip" / "bdremux" / "bd25" / "bd50": displays a Blu-ray logo
- "web-dl" / "web-download" / "webrip": displays a web-dl logo
- ".3d." / "hsbs" / "sbs" / "half-sbs": displays a 3D logo
- The stereoscopic mode can also be automatically detected by Kodi, so you might see this logo without the tags in the file name.
- "hddvd" / "hd-dvd": displays a HD-DVD logo
- "dvd" / "dvdrip": displays a DVD logo
- The DVD logo will also be displayed if the file extension is: .img / .ifo / .vob
- "hdtv": displays a HD TV logo
- "sdtv" / "pdtv": displays a SD TV logo
- "vhs": displays a VHS logo
- ".atmos": if your file contains either TrueHD or E-AC3 (Dolby Digital Plus) audio, a Dolby Atmos logo will display
- "dtsx" / "dts-x": if your file contains DTS-HD Master Audio, a DTS:X logo will display
- "dtses" / "dts-es": if your file contains DTS Audio, a DTS-ES logo will display
- ".bdxl" / "bd66" / "bd100": displays an Ultra-HD Blu-ray logo
- ".unrated": displays an "Unrated" media flag
- "missingvideo" or "Missingvideo" will grey out a missing movie or episode. Click here for details.
Using the missing movie or episode feature
- Added from Rapier 12 / Kodi 19
- You can add the missing movies for a movie set and missing episodes for tv shows. They will be greyed out in the listing, so it's easy to see which ones are missing.
- What is required for missing movies:
- Use any video file in any format (the smaller size, the better).
- Create a movie folder for the missing movie (like you normally do for movies)
- Name the file anything and add "Missingvideo" or "missingvideo" anywhere in the filename.
- - Eg. "Star.Wars.The.Rise.of.Skywalker.2019.missingvideo.mp4"
- Scrape the movie into your library and you're done.
- What is required for episodes:
- Use any video file in any format (the smaller size, the better).
- Place the file in your tv show folder and give it the appropiate episode number and name.
- Add "Missingvideo" or "missingvideo" anywhere in the filename.
- - Eg. "Simpsons.S20E18.missingvideo.mp4"
- Scrape the episode into your library and you're done.
- What is required for missing movies:
Missing tv show clear logos in the TV Shows Today widget in the home screen
- Go to Skin Settings -> Add-ons -> Artwork Downloader -> Download Presets - TV Shows -> Click the Clear Logo button and wait for the script to finish. This should add all clear logos for the tv shows to your library. You can do this with clear art as well if you wish.
Missing Upcoming TV Shows widget
- If you don't see the Upcoming TV Shows widget on the home screen, you probably need to enable it in the Tv Show - Next Aired add-on settings.
- Go to Add-ons > My Add-ons > Program Add-ons > TV Show - Next Aired > Settings
- ENABLE the setting "Show all tv shows for home screen (needs skin support)"
- Restart Kodi
ExtendedInfo (using script.extendedinfo) for movie/tv show cast/crew members
- To activate ExtendedInfo for movie/tv show cast members, press down from the selected cast member in the video information window.
- You can click any director/writer throughout the skin to activate ExtendedInfo.
Mouse / touch device support
- Mouse and touch devices are indeed supported by this skin.
- To make the most of your experience, make sure these skin settings are set:
- Skin Settings > General > Hide dialog close buttons > DISABLED
- Skin Settings > General > Hide top options menu bar (only show when selected) > DISABLED
- Skin Settings > General > Hide top bar when idle > DISABLED
- Skin Settings > Home > Show navigation buttons > ENABLED
Low powered devices
- Rapier can be a bit rough on lower powered devices. Especially entering libraries for the first time after launch can take a while.
- Several skin settings have been made to improve performance:
- Skin Settings > General > Enable low CPU power mode
- When enabled, you can choose between these two options:
- 1. Disable animations only. Selecting this option will disable selected animations.
- 2. Disable animations and CPU demanding skin settings. Selecting this option will disable selected animations AND these CPU demanding skin settings:
- Video playing in the background
- Play trailers in a window
- Music CD art
- Animated backgrounds and fanart (both music and video)
- Music visualization and artist fanart in the background (when playing music)
- Fanart slideshow using script.artistslideshow (when playing music)
- Skin Settings > Views
- Here you can disable all view types you don't use in all windows and sections of Kodi.
- TIP: Disabling every single view type you don't use will significantly speed up load times when entering windows and libraries.
Skin Settings
Rapier is highly customizable and has a great deal of skin settings. This section details all the skin settings options for Rapier.
General
- GENERAL
- Enable kiosk mode
- Once you've got everything set up the way you want, you can enable "kiosk mode" to lock your chosen views and hide selected buttons / functions.
- Enable low CPU power mode
- This setting might improve performance on lower powered systems.
- When enabled, you can choose between these two options:
- Disable animations only. Selecting this option will disable selected animations.
- Disable animations and CPU demanding skin settings. Selecting this option will disable selected animations AND these CPU demanding skin settings:
- Video playing in the background
- Play trailers in a window
- Music CD art
- Animated backgrounds and fanart (both music and video)
- Music visualization and artist fanart in the background (when playing music)
- Fanart slideshow using script.artistslideshow (when playing music)
- When enabled, you can choose between these two options:
- This setting might improve performance on lower powered systems.
- Hide dialog close buttons
- Hides the dialog close buttons on all dialogs. Dialog close buttons are very useful when using a mouse or touch device.
- Hide date
- Hides the date in the top status bar.
- Date format
- Choose the date format according to your region: UK / Australia / Central Europa / India or USA / Canada.
- Hide top options menu bar (only show when selected)
- This will permanently show the menu bar in the library or hide it. If you choose to hide it, it will only be visible when focused.
- Hide top bar when idle
- This setting is only enabled when the setting "Hide top options menu bar" above is enabled.
- This will hide the top bar, when the system has been left idle for 3 seconds. The top bar will still be visible, when the top options menu bar is visible.
- Use scrollbar / Use quick jump
- This setting requires script.skin.helper.service.
- Use scrollbar: Choose this to enable scrollbars throughout the skin.
- Use quick jump: Choose this to enable quick jump alphabet navigation wherever possible.
- Enable battery notification
- If you enable this option, a battery notification will be displayed in the top status bar. This will only be visible when using a battery powered device.
- Enable autocompletions for keyboard dialog
- This setting requires script.extendedinfo.
- This setting enables autocompletions by Google or Youtube for the keyboard dialog in Kodi. They show up as up to 9 clickable suggestions below the actual keyboard.
- Enable kiosk mode
- STARTUP
- Rapier 11 / Kodi 18 Leia only: This section requires script.skin.helper.service.
- Rapier 12 / Kodi 19 Matrix has built in support for this feature.
- Enable splash screen (photo, video or music)
- This allows you to enable the setting and choose a video, image or piece of music to play as a splash screen when Kodi starts up.
- File
- Added from Rapier 12 / Kodi 19 Matrix
- This allows you to choose a video, image or piece of music to play as a splash screen when Kodi starts up.
- Splash screen image duration
- This button is only visible if an image is chosen as splash screen.
- Pressing this button brings up a numeric dialog where you can set the amount of time the image is displayed. Defaults to 5 seconds.
- Preview
- This button is only visible if splash screen is enabled.
- Pressing this button will preview your chosen media.
Home
- HOME
- Show navigation buttons
- This will display navigation buttons in each side of the category menu and can be very useful to mouse or touch device users.
- Enable music playing progressbar
- When playing music and leaving the system idle for 5 seconds, the category section will turn into a progressbar.
- Show navigation buttons
- CATEGORY MENU
- Use white / coloured categories
- Toggle this button to switch between white and coloured home screen category names. The coloured categories will follow the chosen theme - blue, red or orange.
- Change category actions
- Here you can change the functions of all main home screen categories. Clicking a category name will open up a dialog.
- Full support for all library nodes.
- Hide categories
- Select to hide main categories: Music, Videos, Movies, TV Shows, Add-ons, Pictures, General, System, TV, Radio, Weather, Power.
- Add more categories
- Add up to 16 custom categories to the home screen and choose between any favourite (add-ons, playlists, paths etc.) or a built-in skin preset. You can choose your own icon, category image (name of the category), background and add a custom widget.
- Click here for a detailed guide on creating a custom category.
- Reorder categories
- Use this menu to completely reorder all home screen categories.
- Category 1 will be the startup category when launching Kodi.
- Please make sure all categories are used, or you will end up missing categories!
- Use white / coloured categories
- CATEGORY SUBMENU
- Hide submenus
- Hides all submenus.
- Music / Videos / Movies / TV Shows / Programs / Add-ons / Games / Pictures / General / System / Live TV / Weather / Custom Category 1-16
- You can remove, edit or create up to 7 custom submenus for each category using any favourite (add-ons, playlists, paths etc.), built-in skin preset, script or plugin. This is very useful in a lot of different ways.
- Click here for a detailed guide on adding, removing or editing a submenu item.
- Hide submenus
- CATEGORY ICON
- Hide category icons
- Hides all category icons.
- Custom category icon
- Select a custom category icon for the main categories.
- Hide category icons
- INFO PANEL
- Hide now playing
- When playing music or video, Rapier will display a Now Playing widget. This setting allows you to hide the widget.
- Hide recently added
- Hide the Recently Added widget. Enabling this will also hide the In Progress widget.
- Hide "in progress" / random
- Enabling this option will hide the In Progress widget.
- Hide in cinemas / upcoming movies
- Requires the add-on script.extendedinfo (minimum version 3.0.0)
- Enabling this option will hide the In Cinemas / Upcoming Movies widget for the movie category.
- Hide tv show next aired
- Enabling this option will hide the TV Show Next Aired widget for the tv shows category.
- Hide videos
- Enabling this option will hide the video widget for the Videos category.
- Hide Add-ons
- Enabling this option will hide the Add-on widgets for the Add-ons category.
- Hide Games
- Enabling this option will hide the Games widget for the Games category.
- Hide favourites
- Enabling this option will hide the favourites widget for the general category. If the weather category is disabled, the weather widget is displayed for the general category instead.
- Hide weather
- Enabling this option will hide the weather widget for the weather category.
- Hide PVR channels
- Enabling this option will hide the PVR channels / recordings widgets for the TV / Radio category.
- Hide recording information
- Enabling this option will hide the recording information widgets when recording tv / radio.
- Hide system information
- Enabling this option will hide the system information widget for the system category.
- Hide now playing
- ADD-ON SHORTCUTS
- Enable add-on shortcut titles
- Enabling this option will display add-on titles for each of the add-on shortcuts.
- Videos / Movies / TV Shows / Music / Pictures / Programs / Add-ons / General
- Select up to 6 add-on shortcuts for each category. Selecting an add-on shortcut will disable the category icon for the chosen category.
- Enable add-on shortcut titles
Media
- GENERAL
- Select rating
- This will open a dialog to select if the ratings used in media windows are the default ratings or user ratings ("My rating").
- Select rating
- VIDEOS
- Play trailers in a window (video information window)
- This will play trailers in windowed mode in the video information window only.
- Right clicking scrollbar plays trailer
- This setting will disable the playback of trailers when moving right or down from a scrollbar inside the video libraries.
- Use alternative duration
- By default Kodi displays duration of videos in minutes (eg. 112 minutes). Enabling this setting will display the duration in hours and minutes (eg. 1h52).
- Select movie genre icon pack
- This setting allows you to select an image resource add-on genre pack to use with the skin. I recommend installing Xzener's Reflected Icons.
- Defaults to use the skin.rapier/extras/moviegenres/ folder for manually adding images if no image resource add-on is selected.
- Play trailers in a window (video information window)
- VIDEO PLAYING
- Enable video playing in the background
- When playing video, this setting will enable the video playing in the background throughout the skin.
- Enable video playing in the background
- FULLSCREEN VIDEO
- Hide seekbar OSD during fullscreen playback
- Hides the seekbar when playing fullscreen audio or video.
- Show information when paused
- Shows the information dialog, when video is paused.
- Automatically close OSD
- Added from Kodi 20 / Rapier 13.
- This will automatically close the OSD, when the system has been idle for x seconds.
- OSD autoclose time (seconds)
- Added from Kodi 20 / Rapier 13.
- This is the time in seconds before the OSD will automatically close, when the system is idle.
- Defaults to 4 seconds.
- Show clear art on OSD
- Displays clear art images on the OSD when playing movies or tv show episodes. If no clear art is available, a clear logo will be displayed. If no clear logo is available, the cover image will be displayed. Clear art and clear logos require the add-on Artwork Downloader. You can either run Artwork Downloader in the background using the add-on's settings, manually download the artwork in the movie or tv show library or download using Rapier's Add-ons skin settings section.
- Show clear logo on OSD
- Displays clear logo images on the OSD when playing movies or tv show episodes. If no clear logo is available, the cover image will be displayed. Clear logos require the add-on Artwork Downloader. You can either run Artwork Downloader in the background using the add-on's settings, manually download the artwork in the movie or tv show library or download using Rapier's Add-ons skin settings section.
- Show "Paused" in fullscreen video
- When pausing fullscreen video, this setting will dim the screen slighly and display a "Paused" label.
- Hide seekbar OSD during fullscreen playback
- TV SHOWS
- Use banner / poster layout
- Choose between displaying tv show poster or banner images throughout the skin.
- Use banner / poster layout
- TV / RADIO
- This section will only be visible if live tv / PVR is enabled.
- Select multi image path for tv channels / recordings
- Use this option to select a folder of images (or a folder with a single image) to be used in the tv channels / recordings view.
- If no folder is selected, the default images will be used.
- Select multi image path for radio channels / recordings
- Use this option to select a folder of images (or a folder with a single image) to be used in the radio channels / recordings view.
- If no folder is selected, the default images will be used.
- MUSIC
- Enable music CD art
- Enabling this will display CD Art images throughout the skin when playing music. This requires either the add-on CDArt Manager and/or manually adding cdart.png images to your music library folders.
- Select music library path for clear logos
- Enter the path to your music library if you wish to enable clear logos in your Kodi music library.
- Leaving this blank will disable clear logos in the music library.
- Select music genre icon pack
- This setting allows you to select an image resource add-on genre pack to use with the skin. I recommend installing Music Genre Icons - Text.
- Defaults to use the skin.rapier/extras/musicgenres/ folder for manually adding images if no image resource add-on is selected.
- Enable music CD art
- MUSIC PLAYING
- Enable fullscreen window when starting music
- Removed from Kodi 19 / Rapier 12. Go to "Settings > Media > Music > Switch to visualization on playback" instead.
- Enabling this setting will immediately open up the fullscreen music window when music playback is started.
- Enable music visualization / artist fanart in the background
- Enable this setting to display music visualization or artist fanart in the background throughout the skin when playing music.
- Choose background
- Clicking this button will open up a dialog, where you can choose between these background options throughout the skin:
- Use only visualization for background
- Use only artist fanart for background
- Use both music visualization and artist fanart for background
- Clicking this button will open up a dialog, where you can choose between these background options throughout the skin:
- Fanart slideshow
- Enabling this will display an artist slideshow in the background when playing music.
- This setting requires the add-on Artist Slideshow and the skin setting "Use only artist fanart for background" or "Use both music visualization and artist fanart for background".
- Animate fanart backgrounds
- Enabling this will animate the fanart in the background throughout the skin when music is playing.
- This requires the skin setting "Use only artist fanart for background" or "Use both music visualization and artist fanart for background".
- Enable fullscreen window when starting music
- FULLSCREEN MUSIC
- Show CD art and info in fullscreen music playback
- Enabling this will display CD Art images in the music visualization when playing music. This requires either the add-on CDArt Manager and/or manually adding cdart.png images to your music library folders.
- Show "Paused" in fullscreen music
- When pausing fullscreen music, this setting will dim the screen slighly and display a "Paused" label.
- Lyrics add-on
- Added from Rapier 12 / Kodi 19
- Select your preferred lyrics add-on to use in the music visualization window.
- Lyrics settings
- Added from Rapier 12 / Kodi 19
- This will open the settings dialog for the selected lyrics add-on.
- Enable video lyrics
- Requires the add-on CU LRC Lyrics
- During fullscreen music playback, this will enable music video style animated lyrics in sync with the music playing.
- Watch the video demo above.
- Automatically close OSD
- Added from Kodi 20 / Rapier 13.
- This will automatically close the OSD, when the system has been idle for x seconds.
- OSD autoclose time (seconds)
- Added from Kodi 20 / Rapier 13.
- This is the time in seconds before the OSD will automatically close, when the system is idle.
- Defaults to 4 seconds.
- Show CD art and info in fullscreen music playback
- PICTURES
- Show "Paused" in picture slideshow
- When pausing a fullscreen picture slideshow, this setting will display the current time and a "Paused" label.
- Show "Paused" in picture slideshow
- MEDIA FLAGGING
- Enable media flags (Enabling all media flags may break the layout)
- This setting will enable or disable all media flags.
- Use default theme colour / Use white theme colour
- Choose between blue (default) or white media flags.
- Hide video resolution
- This setting will hide the video resolution media flags.
- Hide aspect ratio
- This setting will hide the aspect ratio media flags.
- Hide rating
- This setting will hide the rating media flags.
- Hide subtitle count
- Enabling this setting will display a media flag with the number of subtitles available.
- Hide audio language count
- Enabling this setting will display a media flag with the number of audio languages available.
- Hide Next Aired
- Requires installation of the add-on TV Show Next Aired
- This setting will hide the tv show status media flag in the tv show and season library.
- Enable media flags (Enabling all media flags may break the layout)
Views
- VIDEOS / MOVIES / TV SHOWS / EPISODES / MUSIC / MUSIC VIDEOS / PICTURES / ADD-ONS / PROGRAMS / MISCELLANEOUS
- Here you can disable all view types you don't use in all windows and sections of Kodi.
- TIP: Disabling every single view type you don't use will significantly speed up load times when entering windows and libraries.
Configure Menus
- CONFIGURE MENUS
- Shutdown Menu
- Here you can enable/disable shutdown menu items. The items are enabled according to your hardware specifications.
- Context Menu
- Here you can enable/disable context menu items. Most items requires add-ons. If a required add-on is not installed, clicking an item will prompt you to install it.
- Shutdown Menu
Weather
- WEATHER
- Enable weather
- Removed from Rapier 12 / Kodi 19
- This will enable or disable the weather notification in the top status bar.
- Weather add-on
- Added from Rapier 12 / Kodi 19
- If a weather add-on is installed and enabled, the add-on name will display here.
- If a weather add-on is not installed or disabled, you will be redirected to the weather settings window.
- Weather add-on settings
- Added from Rapier 12 / Kodi 19
- This will open the settings dialog for the selected weather add-on.
- Show in home window only / Show in all windows
- This will either display the weather notification in the home window only or in all windows.
- Select weather icon pack
- This setting allows you to select an image resource add-on weather icons pack to use with the skin.
- Defaults to Kodi's default weather icons if no image resource add-on is selected.
- Enable weather
Backgrounds
- BACKGROUNDS
- Fanart brightness - low / medium
- Opens up a dialog to select the fanart background brightness on a 0-100% scale. Default is 30%.
- Animate custom backgrounds
- Enable this setting to animate the custom backgrounds.
- Animate fanart backgrounds
- Enable this setting to animate the fanart backgrounds.
- Time per Image for fanart backgrounds
- Removed from Rapier 12 / Kodi 19.
- This setting is only visible if the add-on Skin Helper Backgrounds is installed.
- This setting is only enabled if fanart backgrounds have been selected for either the music, videos, movies, tv shows or pvr sections.
- Clicking this button will bring up a numeric dialog. Use this to set the time in seconds each fanart image is shown. Defaults to 8 seconds.
- Select movie / tv show genre background pack
- Select a genre background image pack to be used in the movies and tv shows genre node.
- Select music / music video genre background pack
- Select a genre background image pack to be used in the music and music videos genre node.
- Fanart brightness - low / medium
- WIDGETS
- Hide all widget backgrounds
- Enabling this will hide the backgrounds for all home screen widgets, when they are focused.
- Hide all widget backgrounds
- CUSTOM BACKGROUNDS
- Global
- Choose a custom single image or multi images to use globally throughout the skin. You can set the background brightness from 0-100%.
- Music / Videos / Movies / TV Shows / Add-ons (from Rapier 12 / Kodi 19)
- For the music, videos, movies, tv shows and add-ons (from Rapier 12 / Kodi 19) sections, you can choose between four background options:
- The global background.
- A custom single image. You can set the background brightness from 0-100%, and choose between displaying the background in the home screen only or throughout the skin.
- Multi images. You can set the background brightness from 0-100%, and choose between displaying the backgrounds in the home screen only or throughout the skin.
- Fanart images. You can set the background brightness from 0-100%, and choose between displaying the backgrounds in the home screen only or throughout the skin. Select to display either random, recent, in progress or unwatched fanart images (all options will not be available for every category).
- For the music, videos, movies, tv shows and add-ons (from Rapier 12 / Kodi 19) sections, you can choose between four background options:
- TV / Radio
- For the tv and radio sections, you can choose between four background options:
- The global background.
- A custom single image. You can set the background brightness from 0-100%, and choose between displaying the background in the home screen only or throughout the skin.
- Multi images. You can set the background brightness from 0-100%, and choose between displaying the backgrounds in the home screen only or throughout the skin.
- Random fanart images (Removed from Rapier 12 / Kodi 19). You can set the background brightness from 0-100%, and choose between displaying the backgrounds in the home screen only or throughout the skin.
- For the tv and radio sections, you can choose between four background options:
- Pictures
- For the pictures section, you can choose between five background options:
- The global background.
- A custom single image. You can set the background brightness from 0-100%, and choose between displaying the background in the home screen only or throughout the skin.
- Multi images. You can set the background brightness from 0-100%, and choose between displaying the backgrounds in the home screen only or throughout the skin.
- Latest images from your library. You can set the background brightness from 0-100%, and choose between displaying the backgrounds in the home screen only or throughout the skin. This setting requires the add-on MyPicsDB.
- Random images from your library. You can set the background brightness from 0-100%, and choose between displaying the backgrounds in the home screen only or throughout the skin. This setting requires the add-on MyPicsDB.
- For the pictures section, you can choose between five background options:
- Add-ons (Rapier 11 / Kodi 18 and below) / Games / General / System / Power
- For the programs, add-ons, games, general, system and power sections, you can choose between three background options:
- The global background.
- A custom single image. You can set the background brightness from 0-100%, and choose between displaying the background in the home screen only or throughout the skin.
- Multi images. You can set the background brightness from 0-100%, and choose between displaying the backgrounds in the home screen only or throughout the skin.
- For the programs, add-ons, games, general, system and power sections, you can choose between three background options:
- Weather
- For the weather section, you can choose between 5 background options:
- The global background.
- A custom single image. You can set the background brightness from 0-100%, and choose between displaying the background in the home screen only or throughout the skin.
- Multi images. You can set the background brightness from 0-100%, and choose between displaying the backgrounds in the home screen only or throughout the skin.
- Weather condition backgrounds. Select the path to your weather fanart folder. You can set the background brightness from 0-100%, and choose between displaying the backgrounds in the home screen only or throughout the skin.
- Condition (Add-on). This setting allows you to select an image resource add-on weather fanart pack.
- For the weather section, you can choose between 5 background options:
- Global
Add-ons
- NOTE: Category completely removed from Rapier 12 / Kodi 19
- LYRICS
- Path
- Select your preferred lyrics add-on to use in the music visualization window.
- Lyrics settings
- This will open the settings dialog for the selected lyrics add-on.
- Path
- ARTWORK DOWNLOADER
- Settings
- This will open the settings dialog for the Artwork Downloader add-on.
- Download according to add-on settings
- This will download all artwork specified in the Artwork Downloader settings.
- Download presets - movies
- Hide or show all the settings for the movie artwork downloads.
- All
- Download all movie artwork: poster, fanart, extra fanart, extra thumbs, thumbnail 16:9, clear art, clear logo. All artwork for every movie will be downloaded.
- Poster / Fanart / Extra fanart / Extra thumbs / Thumbnail 16:9 / Clear art / Clear logo
- Download only the movie artwork specified. The selected artwork for all movies wil be downloaded.
- Download presets - tv shows
- Hide or show all the settings for the tv shows artwork downloads.
- All
- Download all tv show artwork: poster, season poster, banner, season banner, fanart, extra fanart, extra thumbs, clear art, clear logo, tv thumb 16:9. All artwork for every tv show will be downloaded.
- Poster / Season poster / Banner / Season banner / Fanart / Extra fanart / Extra thumbs / Clear art / Clear logo / TV thumb 16:9
- Download only the tv show artwork specified. The selected artwork for all tv shows will be downloaded.
- Download presets - music videos
- Hide or show all the settings for the music videos artwork downloads.
- All
- Download all music video artwork: poster, fanart, extra fanart, clear art, clear logo. All artwork for every music video will be downloaded.
- Poster / Fanart / Extra fanart / Clear art / Clear logo
- Download only the music video artwork specified. The selected artwork for all music videos will be downloaded.
- Settings
- IMDB UPDATE
- This section will only be available of you have installed the add-on IMDb Update on your system.
- Settings
- This will open the settings dialog for the add-on IMDb Update.
- Update IMDb movie rating
- This will update the IMDb movie rating for all movies in your library.
- Update IMDb movie rating (hidden)
- This will update the IMDb movie rating for all movies in your library. The service will run in the background.
- Update IMDb top 250
- This will update the IMDb top 250 for all movies in your library.
- Update IMDb top 250 (hidden)
- This will update the IMDb top 250 for all movies in your library. The service will run in the background.
- Update MPAA rating
- This will update the MPAA rating for all movies in your library.
- Update MPAA rating (hidden)
- This will update the MPAA rating for all movies in your library. The service will run in the background.
- Update All
- This will update all options for this add-on.
- Update All (hidden)
- This will update all options for this add-on. The service will run in the background.
Supported Add-ons
- This section contains two sub sections:
- Automatic installation from Kodi add-on repository
- This is a list of add-ons from the official Kodi add-on repository supported by Rapier. Each add-on will display a description when focused.
- If an add-on is installed and enabled you will see the add-on version information. Clicking the add-on will open up the settings dialog.
- If an add-on is installed but disabled, clicking the item will prompt you to enable the add-on and guide you through the process. (Rapier 12 / Kodi 19 only)
- If an add-on is not installed, clicking the item will prompt you to install the add-on and guide you through the process.
- Manual installation
- This list of add-ons supported by Rapier is not in the official Kodi add-on repository. Each add-on will display a description when focused.
- If an add-on is installed and enabled you will see the add-on version information. Clicking the add-on will open up the settings dialog.
- If an add-on is installed but disabled, clicking the item will prompt you to enable the add-on and guide you through the process. (Rapier 12 / Kodi 19 only)
- If an add-on is not installed, clicking the item will display an error notification. You can only install these add-ons manually from zip.
- This section contains two sub sections:
Reset Skin / Skin Settings
- SKIN SETTINGS
- Reset skin settings to default (press to confirm).
- This will reset all skin settings to default. You can NOT undo this action.
- Export skin settings
- Requires the add-on Skin Helper Skinbackup
- Exports all the Rapier skin settings to your selected location.
- Import skin settings.
- Requires the add-on Skin Helper Skinbackup
- Imports all the Rapier skin settings from your selected location.
- Reset skin settings to default (press to confirm).
- OTHER
- Reload skin
- This will reload the skin and can be useful for reloading xml files, images, fonts and other changes.
- Reload skin
Translations
Translations of the skin are handled on Transifex.
Please take a moment to check if your language is up to date, and all strings are translated. You can help out by signing up on Transifex, join the project and translate the skin to your native language.
A huge thanks to all the translators for the great work - it's really appreciated!
Development
You can follow the latest development on Github.
- Rapier 12 - Kodi 19 Matrix
- Rapier 11 - Kodi 18 Leia
- Rapier 10 - Kodi 17 Krypton - DEPRECATED
- Rapier 9 - Kodi 16 Jarvis - DEPRECATED
- Rapier 8 - Kodi 15 Isengard - DEPRECATED
- Rapier 7 - Kodi 14 Helix - DEPRECATED
- Rapier 6 - XBMC 13 Gotham - DEPRECATED
- Rapier 5 - XBMC 12 Frodo - DEPRECATED
- Rapier 4 - XBMC 11 Eden - DEPRECATED
Changelogs
- View changelog for Rapier 12 - Kodi 19 Matrix
- View changelog for Rapier 11 - Kodi 18 Leia
- View changelog for Rapier 10 - Kodi 17 Krypton
- View changelog for Rapier 9 - Kodi 16 Jarvis
- View changelog for Rapier 8 - Kodi 15 Isengard
- View changelog for Rapier 7 - Kodi 14 Helix
- View changelog for Rapier 6 - XBMC 13 Gotham
- View changelog for Rapier 5 - XBMC 12 Frodo
- View changelog for Rapier 4.x - XBMC 11 Eden