Music

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

Album Art & Thumbnails

See main article: Thumbnails

There are a number of ways to get thumbnails to display in Music. Album art can by obtained via Allmusic.com and described in the The Context Menu section. Music tags can also contain art for that specific song, as can be seen in Preparing your Music. If you want a custom thumb, you can add a .tbn file to your music directory. The .tbn file can be either a .JPG or a .PNG file (with transparancy) that you simply rename the extension from .jpg/.png to .tbn. The size of the picture can be anything from 64x64 to 256x256 in pixel-size (you may want to use a larger pixel-size if you use XBMC in 720p/1080i HDTV resolution to get a sharper image). Examples: In this example audiofilename.mp3 will use audiofilename.tbn as thumbnail: Music\path\audiofilename.mp3 Music\path\audiofilename.tbn

File:Mymusic.jpg

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 <musicthumbs> tag. for more information.