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About Kodi

Kodi wants to entertain you

Kodi spawned from the love of media. It is an entertainment hub?that brings all your digital media together into a beautiful and user friendly package. It is 100% free and open source, very customisable?and runs on a wide variety of devices. It is supported by a dedicated team?of volunteers and a huge community.

Kodi Devices

Kodi (formerly known as XBMC) is an award-winning free and open source (GPL) software media player and entertainment hub that can be installed on Linux, OSX, Windows, iOS and Android, featuring a 10-foot user interface for use with televisions and remote controls.

It allows users to play and view most videos, music, podcasts, and other digital media files from local and network storage media and the internet. Our forums?and Wiki?are bursting with knowledge and help for the new user right up to the application developer.

We also have helpful Facebook, Google+, Twitter?and Youtube pages so like, plus or tweet us:?we'd love to hear from you.

Disclaimer: Kodi does not provide any media itself. Users must provide their own content or manually point Kodi to third party online services. The Kodi project does not provide any support for bootleg video content.

What can Kodi do for me?

Kodi is the ultimate entertainment center software. It plays almost every kind of media you can find and it looks great while doing it! This is just a few things Kodi excels at, why not try it yourself today?

  • Kodi will let ypu browse your music easily

    Music

    Kodi can play all your music including mp3, flac, wav and wma formats. It has cue sheet, tag reading support and smart playlists for ultimate control of your music collection.

  • Movies

    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.

  • Makes your episodes beautifully accessible

    TV Shows

    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.

  • Kodi showing a collection of pictures

    Photos

    Import pictures into a library and browse the different views, start a slideshow, sort or filter them all using your remote control.

  • Kodi PVR

    PVR

    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.

  • Skin

    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).

  • Kodi addons

    Add-Ons

    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. See which ones are currently available

  • Kodi Web Interface

    Web Interfaces

    Interact with Kodi using its JSON-RPC based remote interface. This brings loads of possibilities for remote controls, web browsers and 3rd party tools to take Kodi to the next level.

  • Remote Controls

    With support for hundreds of remote controls, CEC-compatible TVs, or one of the new Smartphone and Tablet Apps, Kodi allows you to control your media your way.