Music

Music is the component of XBMC that tames your hunger for great music. Some of the key features of Music are:

Using Music
You will find the interface of Music as easy to operate as the rest of XBMC. Here you can see the default keymapping for:
 * General Navigation
 * Music Navigation and Control
 * XBOX Controller
 * XBOX DVD-Remote.

OSD (On Screen Display)
There are two different On Screen Displays (or "OSD" for short) available in Music:

Sources for Music

 * See main article: Media Sources

XBMC gives you the ability to listen to music from a variety of sources, click here for more information and examples of Types of Media Sources (link). Some examples of sources that allow you to easily access all your digital music collection: For information on how to configure remote file shares, please click here (link)
 * On your computer or a NAS (Network Attached Storage) device/system, which supports SMB file sharing
 * Stored directly on the hard drive of your Xbox
 * On CDs/DVDs in the Xbox DVD drive
 * Streamed from the Internet

Listing Modes Available in Music
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Files View
Files View is the most basic way of browing your music. In Files View, you browse through your sources folder by folder, in the exact same way they are stored. What you see in Files View is the same as you would see if you were to browse the folders on your computer. {| {|
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Library Mode

 * See main article: Music Library

The Library Mode is much more advanced and has many more features than the Files View. It has features like song, album and artist info to name a few. In order to utilize Library Mode, you first need to scan your music into the Music Library using The Context Menu. Be patient, as this can take quite a while if you have a large music collection.
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Karaoke

 * See main article: HOW-TO setup XBMC for Karaoke (and Settings/Music).

Playlists

 * See main article: Playlists (Audio Playlists are also fully supported).

Album Art & Thumbnails

 * See main article: Thumbnails

The same goes for playlists, Cue sheets, SHOUTcast, and internet-stream files, eg: Music\path\audioplaylistname.m3u Music\path\audioplaylistname.tbn Music\path\cuelistname.cue Music\path\cuelistname.tbn Music\path\shoutcastlinkname.pls Music\path\shoutcastlinkname.tbn Music\path\audiostreamname.strm Music\path\audiostreamname.tbn

If you store each of your music-albums or artists in a separate subfolder to keep things organized, you can also make the folder have a custom thumbnail image. To do this you need to rename your .jpg thumbnail as folder.jpg and place it in the folder (the size of the picture can be anything from 64x64 to 256x256 in pixel size).

Example: Music\path\album\folder.jpg

Now your album/artist folder will have a lovely custom thumbnail-image.

You can via advancedsettings.xml change the default filename of the image that XBMC uses for music folders. See the  tag. for more information.