Add Files to XBMC

In XBMC you can easily add new movies, TV shows, or music using the Add Files menu in the Videos or Music menu. Before you start to add your media files, you should know how XBMC works internally. XBMC is more than a simple media player; it’s a full-blown media library that tries to automatically get as much information about your media files as possible. For example, XBMC reads additional information about your favorite TV shows from web databases and adds them to your library. This can be anything from an episode’s original air date to a short summary.

To do this, XBMC depends on a certain file-naming scheme—you can read all about it on the project’s wiki.[80] Note that choosing the correct filenames and directory structures ...

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