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metate edited this page Mar 6, 2016 · 4 revisions

#Introduction

Meta is an addon that lists media from The Movie Database and TheTVDB. Upon media selection, Meta search through your local library, configured local folders and configured addons and displays a selection dialog to allow the user select which source to use for media playback.

Meta uses concurrent execution to browse through all configured addons and folders simultaneously. Additionally, discovered sources are displayed as they are found and there is no need to wait for the process to complete before selecting a source (the selection dialog is self-updating). You may change this behavior in the addon's advanced settings to use a native selection dialog instead.

Meta can improve your current Kodi usage pattern:

  • Focus on media first Instead of searching for the same content through all of your addons, you simply find it in Meta and a list of all links from all configured addons and folders will be displayed right in front of you.
  • Library integration Some of your media may only be available through addons that do not support library integration. Using Meta you can add virtually any media to your Kodi library (pseudo library using strm generation).

By default Meta is shipped with no configured sources at all. However, your addons and local library can be linked to Meta by writing small configuration files referred to as Meta-players. A Meta-player is a json file with ".meta.json" file extension that specifies how to browse an external addon or a local directory. Existing Meta-players can easily be added to Meta from Meta's settings. Set in 'Players update URL' a link to a zip of all Meta-players to install and then select the 'Update players' option. If no one created a Meta-player for a specific addon yet, you'll need to write it on your own. See Writing-a-Meta-player for a guide.

* Respect copyright laws. Meta is completely legal and provides no links at all. It only re-arranges the content of your other, already installed, addons. Do not ask for help related to any addon that may provide illegal content.

Meta screenshot

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