In the age of ever-growing media, a plethora of services like Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime have taken the center stage, and have been ripping off the old cord-connected means of entertainment that everyone was used to up until now. Everything is now over the internet, and with all the latest movies and TV Shows being favored towards the younger generation, one might be acutely interested in organizing them all in one place and listing them out in a beautiful manner. Well, for you, Kodi is the right solution.
What is Kodi?
Kodi, or formerly known as XMBC, is a popular media player that is available on numerous platforms. It depends on third-party services to sort and add media to its own library, and once set up properly, Kodi can provide a very seamless experience. Users with Kodi installed on their devices can not only enjoy the latest movies, TV shows, anime but also have the leisure to use Kodi as a music player to stream all of your favorite podcasts. As we speak, Kodi is available for a wide spectrum of devices, including Windows, Mac, Android, and iOS. It also supports many Televisions with the proper firmware, but that requires you to have a physical Android box that can do the trick for you. Following are a few of the features that Kodi lists on its website :
- Kodi can play all your music including mp3, FLAC, Wav, and WMA formats. It has a cue sheet, tag reading support and smart playlists for ultimate control of your music collection.
- Kodi can do Movies too! Supporting all the main video formats including streamable online media, Kodi can import, browse and play your Movie collection with ease.
- The TV Shows library supports episode and season views with posters or banners, watched tags, show descriptions and actors. Great for keeping track of your progress.
- Import pictures into a library and browse the different views, start a slideshow, sort or filter them all using your remote control.
- Kodi allows you to watch and record live TV all from easy to use interface. It works with a number of popular backends including MediaPortal, MythTV, NextPVR, Tvheadend and many more.
- Kodi allows you to completely change the whole appearance of the interface with skins. We have no doubt that you will find something that suits your tastes (or loungeroom).
- The real power of Kodi comes from the vast selection of user-created Add-ons. There are Add-Ons for popular web services, applications, and scripts.