MUSIC
After returning once again to the Home screen move onto MUSIC and enter into the View Options screen. Unfortunately, currently there is not a view that matches with TV SHOWS and MOVIES at all levels of MUSIC navigation (Artists, Albums, Songs, which is similar to Series, Seasons, and Episodes from TV SHOWS).
For now find a view that you like best. For consistency within MUSIC itself the View: Artists List, View: Album List, and View: Long List seems the best bet currently (March 1, 2011). To select each of these you must navigate into an Artist and then into an Album just as you navigated into a Series and then into a Season for TV SHOWS.
WEATHER
If you plan to use Weather return to the Home screen and select WEATHER and enter View Options here. Select Misc Options and disable Hide Fanart.
ADDONS / PROGRAMS
For Addons and Programs I recommend using View: Apps and leaving Auto Updates enabled under Addons.
And that’s it for the View Options, AND Configuration! If you made it this far well done. That was a ton of information to get through. Next I’ll have my Closing thoughts and wrap-up and after that (on the next pages) will be the addendum with a daily usage keyboard shortcut cheat sheet, supplemental software list, trouble-shooting, and revision history sections.
Closing
This was a guide I had been hoping to do a bit earlier but now that it’s out I’m quite happy with it. In the future I hope to expand it a bit with some more advanced setup and configuration options as well as possibly additional addons for Emulation, Blu-rays, and Amazon Prime Instant Videos streaming playback.
I hope you found this guide helpful and easy to read. Please feel free to leave me questions, comments, or feedback. I respond to every comment or question and generally am able to respond fairly quickly (often within minutes or hours). Again, I wont be able to provide support for all issues, but will try to at least offer some helpful advice or ideas you might not have considered and refer you on to XBMC’s proper support channels (such as forum and wiki).
If you enjoyed this guide be sure to check out my other guides as well! I have been writing these guides for a little over a year now, and Ainer.org has existed for less than that.
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Cheers!
this is great, I had lots of trouble installing xbmcin mint and this did the trick,now I am gonna follow rest of your suggestions, thanks again.
Hey, good to hear Gychang! Best of luck!
i just keep getting
W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc/ppa/ubuntu/dists/natty/main/source/Sources 404 Not Found
W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc/ppa/ubuntu/dists/natty/main/binary-amd64/Packages 404 Not Found
Hey Eddknightuk,
If you’re running Linux Mint 11 or Ubuntu 11.04 that’s why. XBMC has yet to add a PPA repository for Natty Narwhal. You can still use the Maverick Meerkat one though (which is what I’ve been doing without any issues. Simply replace “natty” in both the sources to “maverick”. You will need to got to Sources or Edit Sources and edit the specific entries.
I’m currently stuck on a work computer so can’t give exact instructions. If you get stuck let me know or Google it.
Best of luck!
XBMC is informing me that the Simplicity Add-On cannot be installed as it has broken/missing dependencies, any idea how to fix this?
Hey Catman,
Right off the top of my head I’m not sure. Try another theme like Neon and see if you get the same result. It may just be that Simplicity is broken currently or that something is borked in your XBMC install. As soon as I get my guide updated, I’ll likely be switching from Simplicity to Neon anyway so if that works you may be in for a treat.
Best of luck, and let me know if you have anymore questions!
This guide helped me a lot! I tried installing xbmc on Windows, Fedora, Ubunutu but this guide is definately the clearest! Great work and thank you!
Hey Aegir81,
Glad it worked well for you!
Thanks for the comment!
Excellent detailed instructions on all of your guides! Wish I would have found you sooner. Make all this so much easier to understand. Goodbye torrents!! :)
Hey SAB_Addict,
Thanks for the feedback! I’m glad my guides helped ya out!
Cheers!
Nice guide any plans to do it on Mint 12…????
These instructions don’t work with Mint 12. Adding the PPA does not result in XMBC appearing in the Software Manager..
Hey Johnny,
Nice generalization there. Anyway, since XBMC does not do a great job at maintaing a PPA with the current Ubuntu releases you may need to manually edit the Other Software entry for XBMC to reflect the code name of the highest Ubuntu release that they do support (Maverick currently). If that doesn’t fix your issue the PPA authentication bug may be getting you. In which case the easiest fix is to add the PPA via the Terminal Emulator (sudo add-apt-repository ppa:PPANAMEHERE).
Good luck,
daemox