One Year of Developing XBMB3C
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One year ago, I sent Luke a PM asking him to look into a Media Browser add-on for Xbmc.
I really didn't know Luke at the time - otherwise I would have known that he would push me to do it myself. Luke is good at that!
At the time:
- I didn't know Python
- I didn't know anything about working with web APIs, XBMC API or MB3 API
- I didn't know how to use GitHub
I made a little progress - got lists to display and files to play. I thought I was about done...
And then users and other developers started to get involved.
@null_pointer came on board in January, offering *much* more programming experience. @im85288 came on shortly after, an expert in skinning. @elcabong joined, and contributed mods to his skins. More recently we have been joined by @gelsner, @marcelveldt, @azeos and @cgrey000.
We have devs from the world over: Argentina, Australia, England, Germany, The Netherlands and The USA.
Our users have continuously provided new ideas, and had the patience to work through and test the implementation of those ideas.
We now have TEN beautiful skins modified just for MediaBrowser.
The next year will bring more changes - with the release of Kodi coming, we will be re-branding simply as MediaBrowser for Kodi.
With Kodi branding itself as more of an Open Source Roku - the idea of using MediaBrowser as a local media database back end makes more sense than ever.
In short - this has been the most fun I have had with an online community since my old BBS days.
Thank You!
xnappo
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