XBMC direction

XBMC works just fine with default settings out of the box, but it can go further if people want. When possible, we try to make it easy to use. What's the issue?

What on earth do you mean by direction?

XBMC's direction is simple - provide an outstanding open-source media center. By it's very nature it's expandable in all directions, but as an effect not all directions can be supported by the core team. Addons will come and go, as will scraper sites, content sites etc. Just the nature of the thing. It evolves.

Up.

haha. Sorry, this is an absolute waste of a post, but I must Lol at "Up". (Oh great, I've become one of those people that Lol in sentences)

(2012-03-15 01:00)DJVege Wrote:  haha. Sorry, this is an absolute waste of a post, but I must Lol at "Up". (Oh great, I've become one of those people that Lol in sentences)

It caused a few chuckles on IRC too (lol)

(2012-03-14 23:12)bold Wrote:  No, Grooveshark is still dead.

if you are in Germany - yes. They didn't settle about copyright & stuff there..
I was groovesharking (heh) Finley Quaye's Dice from the OC soundtrack when I was writing my reply.. Lucky me I guess.

I've been using media centre software for a few years now. Previously with WMC, then tried out MediaPortal, then finally found XBMC.

XBMC is a lot more intuitive to work with in my experience. However, like PC hardware in general, it requires a little bit of prior knowledge & a good deal of common sense to get the most out of it.

XBMC to me is the "Enthusiast's Media Center Software". If you want quick & easy, you buy a PC off the shelf from the likes of Dell, if you want customization, you build your own, and LEARN from the experience, and the mistakes you will invariably make along the way. XBMC is the same idea in my view.

I've lost count of the number of times I've wiped my XBMC install, cleared my MySQL databases, tinkered around with different add-ons, installed / uninstalled / re-installed some add-on or tool in order to get things where I wanted them. That's the beauty of XBMC. Customization and extendability.

No media center will ever be "all things to all people". But XBMC comes mightly close IMHO. I've never owned an Xbox, nor any other console. I loathe the things, and prefer my gaming to be on a desktop. But even I have fully embraced XBMC. It's features and abilities make it 10x the media center WMC could ever hope to be. One of the reasons I suspect that MS is supposedly dropping WMC in future versions of windows. 3rd party applications like XBMC do it so much better.

The only thing missing is PVR as part of the main branch... but this is coming. Even the unofficial builds with PVR are perfectly usable, if not fully mature.

If you want quick and easy, and don't want to deal with bugs & issues; go back to WMC. If you have patience to work through issues, and want the bells & whistles, stick with XBMC. I for one will never go back to WMC now.