Settings/Music

Library

Enable Library

If unchecked all references to Library Mode are removed from the GUI (Default on).

Include artists who appear only on compilations

Determines if artists that appear only on compilations are shown in the library artist view (default on).

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Download additional information during updates

Automatically fetches album and artist information via scrapers during scan.

Default service for album information

Selects the default album information source.

Settings

Settings for the selected music information source

Update library on startup

Checks for new and removed media files on XBMC startup.

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Clean Library...

This funtion will perform a number of 'cleanup' tasks on your music database and can be run if you have moved, deleted or renamed files.

• Removes any songs with invalid paths
• Removes any albums which have no references
• Removes any artists which have no references
• Removes any genres which have no references
• Removes any paths which have no references

Export Music Library

Exports the Music Library database to XML files.

Import Music Library

Imports a XML file into the Music Library database. The data is only imported if the entry exist.

If it exists:

1. It removes all current info for that entry from the database.
2. Inserts the info for that entry from the XML file.

See more here: Import - Export Library

Playback

Play the next song automatically

XBMC automatically plays the next item in the current folder. For example, in Files View: After a track has been played, XBMC would automatically play the next track in the same folder.

Queue songs on selection

When songs are added to a playlist they are queued instead of playback starting immediately.

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Replaygain volume adjustments

When enabled, XBMC will read the Replay Gain information encoded in your audio files by a program such as MP3Gain and normalize the sound levels accordingly. You have the option of either using track levels or album levels.

Crossfade between songs

Enabling this will cause the player to smoothly fade from one audio track to the next. You can set the amount of overlap of the tracks from 1-15 seconds.

Crossfade between songs on the same album

You have the option of only crossfading between songs on the same album or all.

Visualization

Determines which visualization will be displayed while listening to music. For more information, see Visualizations.

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Default player

Choose the default player to be used for music

File lists

Enable Tag Reading

Enabling tag reading will read the tag-information written in every song. This will slow down read time of large directories (particularly over a network), but will give, if properly named, a better description of your music files. If you wish to have the tag information without having to wait for them to load each time, you can “Scan” your songs from My Music:Songs. This will read the tags of all songs in this directory (and it's subdirectories) and add the information to the database (stored in the “albums” folder). Next time you go into that directory, XBMC will first look for the tag information in the database, which should speed up the directory loading.

Track Naming Template

Controls the way that the names of songs are displayed in the UI. In order to function properly, ID3 tags need to be enabled. For a list of options that can be used, see Tags Available for Audio Files

Track Naming Template Right

Works in the same manner as Track Naming Template, but is used for the information on the right-hand side of the UI. It is commonly used to display the length of tracks.

Look for thumbs on remote shares

When this option is on, XBMC will search for thumbs on remote shares (which as of the time of writing includes DVD and CD media as well, due to the long seek/read times). This can often slow down listing of network folders quite dramatically (particularly if there are many items that have no thumbs), hence the option to turn it off. If you Scan your music collection while this option is on the thumbs are cached locally, and a reference to the thumb is stored in the music Library. This significantly speeds up listings. Turn the option off after the scan if you have many folders/files without associated thumbs. For more information on creating custom thumbnails, see Thumbnails

Song submission

Submit Songs to LastFM

Allows you to submit information about the music that you play to LastFM.

Submit LastFM Radio to LastFM

The same as above, but applies to songs played through LastFM radio.

LastFM username and password

This is where you enter the username and password for your LastFM account.

Submit Songs to Libre.fm

Allows you to submit information about the music that you play to Libre.fm.

Libre.fm username and password

This is where you enter the username and password for your Libre.fm account.

Audio CDs

Lookup Audio CDs on freedb

This will read the information belonging to a inserted audioCD from an internet database. Thus every song will get its correct name and artist displayed. The IP Address of the CD Database is set in the advancedsettings.xml.

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Saved music folder

This option defines the location on your hard drive that ripped tracks will be saved to. (Note: To rip to a Samba share, you must define the rip location via advancedsettings.xml.)

Track Naming Template

Controls the way that your ripped songs will be named. For a list of options that can be used, see Tags Available for Audio Files

Encoder

This option defines which audio encoder to use when ripping.

Quality

This option defines in which quality you want to rip your files.

Bitrate

This option defines which bitrate to use for the specified audio encoder for audio compression.

Compression level

For FLAC define compression level, default 5

Karaoke

See main article: HOW-TO setup XBMC for Karaoke (and the article on HOW-TO create LRC karaoke lyrics files).

Enable karaoke support

This turns on XBMC's karaoke function. When playing any music file, XBMC will look for a matching .cdg file and will display its graphics.

Enable Voice

This enables voice to be played through a connected communicator set.

Volume

This adjusts the voice output level. This is independent of general volume. TIP: Keep this at 100%, turn down general volume, and turn up the volume on your TV or HiFi

Voice Masks

These options will apply sound effects on the voice output, depending on which Xbox controller port the communicator(s) are connected through.