How to manage your media with Kodi | Linux Today

How to manage your media with Kodi

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Steve Ovens
Jan 11, 2019

Modern Kodi is the successor to Xbox Media Player, which was discontinued way back in 2003. In June 2004, Xbox Media Center (XBMC) was born. For over three years, XBMC remained on the Xbox. Then in 2007, work began in earnest to port the media player over to Linux.

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