Music
Library
Under Music we see similar options as we did under Videos but, yep, for Music. Under Library the defaults are, once again, sane but we should Enable update library on startup here as well. Similarly there’s another Clean library… option here for Music media.
Once those are done we can also enable Download additional information during updates and then move on to Playback.
Playback
Again, another section where the options here are solid without any changes. Nothing here you can break though so adjust as desired if you wish.
To start, for the Visualization I would suggest using ProjectM or None. ProjectM is more dynamic and psychedelic whereas None saves some system resources and instead shows fan art for the music.
File lists
We can skip this.
Song submission
If you have a Last.fm or Libre.fm account and want to track your music and get recommendations you can enable that here (I’m more of a Pandora fan myself, so moving along).
Audio CD’s
This section is similar to the previous DVDs section. If you’re still using optical media, you can adjust playback and copying options here.
Karaoke
I have admittedly never used this section. If this is something you’re interested in I recommend reading more here at XBMC’s wiki.
Pictures
This is something I’ve yet to make good use of in XBMC. The defaults here all look solid as well. So moving on to the next section.
Weather
General
The Weather options provides up to three different areas to track. This is all rather straight forward. Just hit Enter on one of the options, and type in a the nearest large town to your location. If it doesn’t find something try a bigger town.
Move on to Network and Services once you’ve set the areas you’re interested (if any).
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