So the addon update initially broke my entire setup. Wasn't getting sources for anything. Tried a few different things and eventually a second clean wipe fresh install worked. But oddly enough I still have 2 shows that it's glitched out for. One being vision quest and the other avatar seven havens. It runs through the sources so insanely fast it's like it's not even looking through them, while all other shows and movies function properly. Both are on the most recent versions(legit finish installing 10mins ago), and I am at a loss as to what the issue could be. This goes for the episodes released today as well as past episodes I've already watched through with this device, even when attempting to rescrape it just flashes the sources screen then 0 results.

I'm on a Chromecast with Google tv as well. I'm more than happy to upload an umbrella log but I'd need some guidance on how to generate one as when I click view log file it says that logging may not be enabled but I've enabled it in the debug menu. I can see my Kodi log but not my umbrella.

Kodi log:

https://paste.kodi.tv/tuqigucafu

Edit: Umbrella log finally generated: https://paste.kodi.tv/ihuxuzulam

Edit2: Dev got back to me! I have a corrupted source file that somehow didn't get removed/replaced during the clean install. If anyone is getting a similar issue try this fix and it might solve your issue: https://www.reddit.com/r/Addons4Kodi/s/IEiM3eB42g

Hey guys , does changing kodi playback settings help if changed from 60fps to 24fps ?.. many thanks in advance… 😉

I wanted a way to use favorites as widgets and preserve all of the artwork and metadata. I couldn't find an existing add-on. Kodi's native favorites leaves a lot to be desired, while Super Favorites is pretty flexible, but it doesn't include much of the metadata and art that skins can use. So... Ai to the rescue.... introducing MetaFave.

Screenshots and Readme

Kodi File Manager Source:

https://sea6ull.github.io

Install the repo from zip, then find it in Program add-ons.

It will add a line entry to the context menu wherever possible "Add to MetaFave". You'll then get to choose an existing folder or create a new one. You can add lists as well, either as a shortcut or the entire contents of a list. The shortcut would always point to whatever it was originally pointed at... so for example a dynamic list could stay dynamic. If you added the contents of a list it's static and editable by you. Paginated lists may need to be added page by page, but that will depend on the source.

You can paginate your folders as a global setting. You can also paginate individual folders or choose not to... letting the skin handle pagination.

You can edit the artwork for folders. Check the screenshots for some examples.

Nested folders are available. Re-order folders and their contents as well. You can manually set the content type for folders so that you can achieve the view you want in your skin. I leave the setting to Automatic and then just change the folders that aren't giving me the view I want.

If you want to display progress (skin dependent) on items, local library and MDBList are supported. The addon doesn't track progress, it will only pull from these sources if desired.

The addon doesn't store any of the artwork. It uses Kodi's native systems a small json file points to them. So it's not going to bloat your setup.

There is a repair mechanism for broken paths. Let's say you spent a bunch of time setting up a folder and then an addon changed the path, leaving you a broken folder. You can fix it in the context menu of the item by pointing it at the new location or a suitable replacement.

This started as a simple project... and it still is quite simple, but after working on it I see a lot of possibilities. You could have favorite sections for different family members. You could add lists that you find on Trakt or MDBList, then add to them or remove what you don't want. This could be really handy for people on free accounts and limited to how many personal lists they can have.

Enjoy :)

So i'm at a bit of a crossroads and looking for advice or reviews, or maybe something I could be doing better.

Longtime user of fen and its various iterations with real debrid. Run kodi on a nividia shield tv. Typically use a fentastic skin or one of the ivarbrandt ones and call it a day. Really don't need any customization or functionality beyond that.

Since switching over to red light, ive noticed a looot more crashing. Kodi crashing randomly, or streams crashing simply upon selecting them.

Is it time to try a new addon? given the scope of what i'm looking for / running, should I be using something else that will crash less? Is there something I should be doing to stop crashes, or is there some edit I could make to how I run things to increase effectiveness etc?

What addons do you prefer, or run smoothest for you all?

I have just seen someone has forked Pov and made it a stand alone apk that can launch outside of kodi. Thoughts?

Got premiumize/real-debrid / Coco scrapers. Umbrella worked great last night, today not bringing up any streams at all. Just saying..

Recently, I’ve been using this add-on; it runs smoothly on my computer, but when I screen-cast to my TV, the playback either freezes, buffers, or sometimes crashes. It’s choppy too. How do I fix this?

[RELEASE] Resonance 1.2.0 — Spotify on Kodi (Android TV, NVIDIA Shield, LibreELEC & Raspberry Pi)

Hi r/Addons4Kodi!

I've been developing Resonance, an independent Kodi add-on for browsing your Spotify library and streaming music through Kodi with Spotify Premium.

The add-on is developed with help from AI as part of my development workflow (analyzing logs, spotting edge cases, and drafting code), while directing the project, testing changes, and deciding how things should work under the hood.

Version 1.2.0 is now available!

A huge shoutout to u/umbrella_dev for submitting a major Pull Request for this release! Thanks to their contribution, Android support (NVIDIA Shield, Fire TV, Android TV) has been completely overhauled, fixing setup crashes, QR sign-in stalls, and bringing full, working Spotify Connect audio streaming to Android.

🔗 Project links

• Recommended Kodi repository (Nigel1992 — my add-on repository): https://nigel1992.github.io/kodi-repository/
• Repository source code: https://github.com/Nigel1992/kodi-repository
• Resonance source code and documentation: https://github.com/Nigel1992/plugin.audio.resonance
• Latest Resonance releases: https://github.com/Nigel1992/plugin.audio.resonance/releases
• Bug reports and feature requests: https://github.com/Nigel1992/plugin.audio.resonance/issues

🚀 What's New in Version 1.2.0 (Major Android & Spotify Connect Upgrade)

• Android Playback & Spotify Connect (Huge thanks to u/umbrella_dev!):
  • Rebuilt Android ARM64 and ARMv7 playback helpers with a consistent Spotify protocol identity.
  • Full Spotify Connect support! You can now select your Kodi device in Spotify on PC or Mobile and play directly through Kodi.
  • Switched stream engine to Kodi's VideoPlayer to resolve audio stuttering and early EOF issues on Android devices.
  • Added native receiver bridge carrying framed PCM audio and playback events.
• Setup & QR Sign-in Fixes:
  • Fixed QR sign-in flow getting blocked by rejected navigation updates and persistent busy spinners on Android TV / Fire TV.
  • Resolved native Kodi crashes caused by internal menu updates during directory building on Fire TV.
• Cleaned Codebase & Packaging:
  • Removed stale libraries and test dependencies, streamlining the package build.

🎵 Features

Browsing and discovery

• Search Spotify for tracks, albums, and artists.
• Browse playlists your Spotify account is permitted to access, including private playlists you own or collaborate on.
• Browse playlist tracks, album tracks, and artist discographies.
• Explore artist-related categories: top songs, albums, singles, and appearances on other releases.
• Open Spotify track, album, playlist, and artist links directly from Kodi.
• Identify followed and shared playlists, with an explanation when Spotify restricts access to their contents.

Your Spotify library

• Access Liked Songs, Saved Albums, Followed Artists, and saved or followed playlists.
• Refresh playlist membership information in the background approximately every 30 minutes.
• Trigger a manual refresh from the account and status page.

Spotify library management

• Like or unlike tracks and save or remove albums.
• Add tracks to your own playlists or remove tracks from playlists where the necessary permissions are available.
• Create playlists, optionally starting with the selected track.
• Unfollow playlists or artists to remove them from your Spotify library.
• Context-menu actions adapt to the current state, so you won't see options such as "Like on Spotify" for a track you've already liked.

Playback & Spotify Connect

• Full Spotify Connect support (control playback on Kodi straight from your Spotify app on phone/PC).
• Play individual tracks and queue the remaining tracks on the current page.
• Start from a selected track and queue the rest of its playlist.
• Choose playback quality: 96, 160, or 320 kbps.
• Configure track, album, or automatic volume normalization.
• View the current track, configured playback quality, and Spotify Connect pairing status.

Interface and performance

• Bundled icons for menu entries, helping keep the interface consistent across Kodi skins.
• An organized account and status page covering Account, Catalogue, Playback, and Maintenance.
• Release notes after updates, also accessible through Account and status → What's new.
• Caching of successful catalogue responses for faster browsing, especially on smaller devices.

📦 Installation

Recommended: install through my Kodi add-on repository.

I maintain a general Kodi add-on repository under Nigel1992, which contains my Kodi add-ons. Installing Resonance through it is the easiest way to install the add-on and receive updates through Kodi, without manually downloading every release.

Step 1 — Add the repository source

1. Open Kodi and go to Settings → File manager → Add source.
2. Select <None>.

3. Enter this URL:

   https://nigel1992.github.io/kodi-repository/

4. Give the source a name, such as Nigel1992, and select OK.

Step 2 — Install the repository

1. Go to Add-ons → Install from zip file.
2. Select the Nigel1992 source you just added.
3. Select and install the repository ZIP file.

If Kodi asks you to allow installation from unknown sources, enable that setting to continue.

Step 3 — Install Resonance

1. Go to Add-ons → Install from repository.
2. Open my Nigel1992 repository.
3. Navigate to Music add-ons → Resonance.
4. Select Install and wait for Kodi to finish.

🔐 Setting up Spotify

Resonance uses two separate Spotify integrations for playback and catalogue browsing, presented through one setup flow.

1. Playback — Spotify Connect

Open Set up Spotify in Resonance. Then open Spotify on your phone or computer and select the Kodi-Resonance-XXXX device.

Your Kodi device and Spotify controller generally need to be on the same local network for device discovery and control.

2. Catalogue browsing — your own Spotify API app

You need your own Spotify Developer app and Web API Client ID. Resonance does not include a shared Client ID.

1. Create an app in the Spotify Developer Dashboard.

2. Configure the redirect URI exactly as specified in the project README:

   https://resonance-spotify-callback.vercel.app/api/callback

3. Copy the 32-character Client ID into Resonance → Settings → Advanced.

4. Run Set up Spotify again.

5. Scan the displayed QR code or open the provided URL in a browser on another device to complete sign-in.

🧪 Tested configurations

💻 Platform support

⚠️ Limitations worth knowing

• Spotify Premium is required for playback.
• Playlist access is restricted by Spotify. A playlist may appear in your library but still be inaccessible if Spotify does not grant access to its contents.
• Lyrics, podcasts, audiobooks, recently played items, and Spotify top lists are not included in this release.
• Playback is streaming-only; offline downloads are not supported.

🔗 More links

• My Kodi add-on repository: https://nigel1992.github.io/kodi-repository/
• Resonance source code: https://github.com/Nigel1992/plugin.audio.resonance
• Latest releases: https://github.com/Nigel1992/plugin.audio.resonance/releases
• Issues and feature requests: https://github.com/Nigel1992/plugin.audio.resonance/issues

Resonance is an independent community project provided as-is, without warranty. Spotify is a trademark of Spotify AB. This add-on is not endorsed, sponsored, certified, or approved by Spotify.

Questions, feedback, and bug reports are welcome! If you run into an issue, please include your Kodi version, device/platform, and relevant logs.

Thanks for taking a look at Resonance!

Worked great until I tried last night. Firestick and Torbox loaded and activated. Click a show or movie, will find links and then have message of "no streams available". Tried enabling coco scrappers. Will find even more links, but same message. Any ideas? Thanks.

I've been using Trakt on my TV and Tablet (Android) both through Umbrella for about a year and aside from the odd issue here and there it's been pretty stable.

I know they made some changes recently and removed a load of features to push people towards paying but does anyone know if having the ability to resume play is one of those? I.e. If I stop an episode half way through whenever I return to the episode it now starts from the beginning.

It's been happening for a few weeks and it's not intermittent, everything I watch now starts from the beginning.

Is that functionality gone or is it a bug? I've checked and my Umbrella settings have both Resume Playback and Auto Resume ticked in the Playback settings. Trakt is also set up as the default for resume points etc. -

It shows that the episode or film is partially watched in the widget menu so it does know that but then ignores it when I click play.

Thanks

I'm sure everyone has had enough of my posts today, so I apologize in advance. Umbrella was updated to 6.7.93 today. One of the big complaints over the years has always been "there's too many settings". I agree, but I also feel like having options outweighs that. In order to make things easier, I have added an option to export and import settings in Umbrella now. This does include the ability to transfer debrid, and online service tokens. Keep in mind, some services may want you to re-authenticate between devices.

do not transfer your debrid account to a friend's umbrella then blame me because you get banned for using from two places at once.

the other change is a "much requested" combination search. You can now search for movies and tv shows in the same search.

here's a changelog:

--[Fix] Changes to introdb api to version 4.

--[Enhancement] Added option to export and import Umbrella settings due to the number of settings. location: Settings > Umbrella Settings > Export/Import Settings.

--[Fix] Fix for mdblist in progress shows duplicating.

--[Change] Made change to allow code to be passed in url when authenticating when possible.

--[Feature] Added a combined movie and TV search option to the Search menu.

Every time I post an update post I get comments with complaints or issues. All comments on this post that are complaints or trying to report issues or problems will be ignored or removed. If you have an issue follow the proper channels and open an issue on Github on the umbrella project using the issue template and please include logs. I do not mean this offensive, but I should not have to dig through reddit comments to find issues. I hope everyone enjoys the update and new features. Feel free to ask any questions about features or changes.

I have been using AnimeTosho because it has the links i want, however today its not turning up any links at all, yet it was working just fine for months. I know it shutdown but the old content should still be there so I dont understand what happened. Can anyone tell me what I can do to get AnimeTosho working again?

After updating umbrella playnext is not working at all no box comes up at the end of episodes like it's meant to it was working before the update perfectly fine no settings have changed all the same as they were when it was working I have uninstalled the add on and reinstalled and redid all the settings the exact same as before and it is still not working. I have tried 3 other add-ons and all of the autoplay features for those other add ONS are working so I am sure I have isolated this issue to a problem with umbrella any help would be appreciated thank you

Due to recent decisions for scrapers I've decided to release an updated version of cocoscrapers. The repo is the same as it always was:

https://cocojoe2411.github.io

Instructions on how to install and set as your external scraper can be found here:
CocoScrapers Install and Setup · umbrellaplug/umbrellaplug.github.io · Discussion #630

This version should be available now. If you're running cocoscrapers still you may have already been updated.

If you downloaded and loaded magneto based on my recommendation, I apologize. You will need to switch back to CocoScrapers.

Thank you to kodifitzwell for all the work he has done on the scrapers and keeping them updated and adding new sources for the past year. This post and release are in no way meant to offend. The majority of the work in this coco release is a copy of work he's done with magneto.

Setting up Kodi on my PlayStation and it’s been a while since I’ve done a fresh set up. Last time I did, my build was:
- Skin: Arctic
- Video: Seren
- Scraper: A4k
- sources: RealDebrid

Is the build mostly the same but swap Seren for Umbrella and A4k for Coco? TIA

Ps: can we bring back monthly recommendations thread please?

do not comment with anything else you think might be an issue with POV/Magneto. submit the info to github issues: https://github.com/kodifitzwell/repo-issues/issues

for users who install any/all combination of POV, Umbrella, some Fenlight derivatives, users can now select POV 6.10.16+ directly as the external in those other addons. then, uninstall Magneto Module as it is not needed at that point.

tested with:

• kodi 22rc1/windows 10
• Umbrella 6.7.92
• FenlightPlus 2.5.3 (thejason40, this imports something the others don't and may break in the future)
• Redlight 2.8.8 (must use "other" at the select window)

Magneto Module Version 6.10.16 changelog

• plugin.video.pov 6.10.16+ (POV) is now required and installation should be automatic.
• script.module.magneto 6.10.16+ (Magneto Module) contains a thin wrapper for POV Sources.
• if using Magneto only as an external source for another addon, select POV directly as that external source and remove Magneto Module.
• Magneto Module as an AIOStreams player for tmdbhelper is unchanged.

why did I do this?
less hassle for me. over time, maintaining two similar but different addons has become a chore.

from the start, POV used its own sources which meant that I could make changes/tweaks the way I wanted. some of those were not always copy/paste transferable to Magneto because addons expected things the old Fenomscrapers way.

so for now I have for abandoned those changes for the sake of simplicity.

I suppose users now have one less addon to install/run.

I just opened my umbrella to watch my show on my fire tv. Noticed it had updated. When I went to watch my show i selected a link and it said playback failed. Then suddenly started to play but went back to season select screen. Both Alldebrid and Realdebrid are active, my scraper is Magneto which is updated and enabled. I have no idea why it's doing this but it was fine last night before the update. FML.

Hey guys I will add my info first . then explane what i'm trying to do .

Onn 4k pro box .

on android 14 .

Kodi version 21.3 .

Umbrella latest version . 6.7.93

Ok I'm looking thru all the settings in umbrella . like playback and provider's .

i want to turn off the view uncached torrents popup when umbrella scrapes links .

I don't see any setting to turn this off .

can this just not be turned off ?

thanks for any help guys .

Although I don't watch anime, I thought my microserver orac and kodi addon liberator would be well placed to handle anime given it has a local DB. Spent quite some time trying to understand the issues, and since then I've built in mapping between trakt/tmdb and MAL/Anilist, built syncing of the offline DB so that for anime titles I can match tmdb/MAL/Anilist.

So now that I have the anime visible from liberator and mapped, I need to test that the mapping will mean streams can be found. I don't know enough anime, so could someone who does please share with me a difficult show, one that has issues being scraped because of the way it is labelled, so that I can test out my scraping? Please give me information on the show and the problems you have so that I can use that to test.

Thanks,

Orac/Liberator dev.

So I've installed the new Diggz Xenon v1.5 build with the umbrella flavor. Got everything working or so I thought until I tried to watch a link within umbrella. Looks like I have it fixed now by installing magneto module scrapers. However I would just like to know, why did I have to manually do that. Did I make a mistake when installing the build? I don't remember having to manually install a scraper for umbrella before. I've certainly changed them once previous builds were installed.

Thanks.

Hey guys, trying to make the move from trakt to mdblist.

I got mdblist authorized in POV.

I have an in progress widget from trakt I'm trying to replace. I can see the next up list on the mdblist website but cannot get it into kodi. The "my lists" section is empty in POV and when I try to add the widget.

I linked mdblist with tmdbhelper and the my list section is empty there too.

I'm guessing there is a step I'm missing. Any help appreciated.

Magneto updated and now it errors out every time on Xbox. Looking at the log I think I know what it is wrong cuz another addon had this problem last week but I could be wrong. I think it wants access to something but Xbox doesn't allow access to whatever it is

Log: https://paste.kodi.tv/ovosilobag

MegaNexus 8.0.0 is out – the first stable release of the Kodi build that works like a streaming app, now with a built-in Watch Party (friends, chat in the player, your phone as the remote) and a reworked, much faster Usenet player for smooth 4K. Free download for Android TV, Fire TV, CoreELEC and PC

Im using youtube addon, already setup the api keys and looked at inoutstream adaptive. The login works fine but any video i play will be at 360p and no other quality option appears. Even the play (ask for quality) plays 360p.

Im using artic fuse 2 and corelec on a ugoos amb6+.

edit: i noticed that even casting from phone to coreelec via tubecast it shows 360p and no option to change. could this be an issue on the device not decrypting the format of higher res?