The long winter is ending, and the spring flowers are blooming. So it must be time for an Amarok release. In this version 2.4.1, we fixed many bugs and corner-case crashes, so your Amarok will be more rock-steady than ever. Lyrics iPod handling both go…

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A US service member was living in Great Falls, MT. When the military reassigned him to a base in Turkey, he was met with the unenviable task of trying to squeeze all of the home theater equipment that easily fit is his old house into a much smaller military home halfway across the world.
The old [...]

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@Banshee is finally on twitter – follow us to keep up to date!

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Team XBMC is interested in finding a mascot for XBMC. To that end, we have decided to have a competition in which you, the user, can submit drawings for what you think an ideal mascot would be.
The winner will receive a Nyxboard Hybrid Remote and an OpenELEC HTPC with XBMC pre-installed from Pulse-Eight, along with an XBMC [...]

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If you are ‘testing’ the new release of MediaPortal (MP) 1.2.0 beta, now you can learn about all the new features and how to use them and test them thoroughly.
For the first time in MP history, testers have access to current documentation on all the c…

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For those of you using unstable or nightly builds, you will soon notice a change in available add-ons at the xbmc.org repository. Dharma users shouldn’t fret as nothing changes for stable add-ons.
With each new version of XBMC, there are sure to be changes that require add-on authors to make changes in order to remain compatible. [...]

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The release of 1.2.0 beta is a big milestone in the MP 1.2.0 development cycle. During its development we had to make a few tough decisions, which ultimately resulted in a lot of work and delays, yet also brought MP1 to a completely new level of usabil…

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For this week’s Feature Friday, we’re going to move from the kitchen to a tiny, spare bedroom.  I’m sure many of you are familiar with the massive home theaters with moving parts, star-lit skies, curved screens, and more insulation than an average person could shake a stick at. You may also know that you can [...]

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Rather than focusing on developer work within the team, we thought we’d switch this post up to focus on work by the community at large. But before we do, a quick announcement.  For those of you who don’t already know, we’ve decided to name XBMC 12 (the one coming after Eden*) Frodo, after one of [...]

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Today MediaPortal 1.2.0 Beta entered its final phase of development:. the Code Freeze.
In this phase, the team is now deeply testing a build of MediaPortal’s source code which potentially could be released as 1.2.0 Beta. No more commits to SVN are all…

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