[zonky]

I have a setup at home where i am experimenting with skin customisation, and are syncing the content of AppData\Roaming\Kodi\ via powershell when i am publishing changes to all my boxes.(i have 4 kodi computers).

One of them is attached to a large screen, and has multiple channel sound output. My thinking is that after i publish skin changes etc, i want to reconfig the audio settings just on the one device. I have a script that can do that, what i am not sure about is if i understand what files control audio config.

my belief is that AppData\Roaming\Kodi\userdata\guisettings.xml controls the audio settings of the local system. Does the audio config live in another part of the kodi profile folder - it seems like when i copy this file back on that one host, althought the passthrough settings are respected, theNumber of channels reverts back to 2.0?

Any idea why this would be, and if audio is defined in another file?

[PatK]

You are correct in assuming that guisettings.xml contains all the user GUI settings. The audio settings are manipulated using the GUI, but if the hardware is not available defaults prevail. Kodi does these checks at start up (look at the debug log (wiki) to get an idea Check 4.1 Directsound Windows audio (wiki) and Audio quickstart guide (wiki)

[scott967]

I'm not seeing why skin changes would do anything to change your audio settings, or the guisettings, other than specific lookandfeel settings.

scott s.
.

[zonky]

Sure- the skin changes aren't but in effect i am propogating skin & plugin changes, so was copying the entire config folder, rather than selectively. Is there a better approach to keep entire configs insync - Library, skin and add-on across multiple installs?

[PatK]

Here's a few links that might be worth looking at.

http://kodi.wiki/view/HOW-TO:Synchronize..._libraries
http://www.howtogeek.com/75535/how-to-sy...with-xbmc/
http://lifehacker.com/5634515/how-to-syn...-the-house

[zonky]

Thanks for everyone's help