[Tutorial] Shared Library / Shared Sources

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(2nd Jun, 2013 09:26 PM)brantje Wrote:  I still have to lookup, how i can share addons arcoss xbmc's

this is bit tricky. method how to achieve is the same - path substitution - or mount to xbmcs addon directory.

normally, Thumbnails, add-on_data, mediasources and sources works with no issues. With addon scripts you can run into troubles from two reasons:

1) different versions and dependencies according to installed xbmc
2) the fact, that xbmc keeps addons physically in add ons folder, but informations about them in Databases/Addons.db. This db can't be moved to shared SQL and sqlite provides no locking/sharing mechanism.

so by substituting addon path (or centrally mounting it) you will not make your xbmc installation be aware of the addons. there needs to be related record in Databases/Addons.db sqlite db. and to this, you are not able to provide shared access (if you start more than xbmc at a time).

so once again, music and video library can be central "shared", thumbnails folder, addon_data, sources.xml, mediasources.xml, favorites.