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OpenMeta is an add-on that lists media from The Movie Database, TheTVDB, and Trakt. Upon media selection, OpenMeta searches through your local library, configured local folders and configured add-ons and displays a selection dialog to allow the user select which source to use for media playback.

OpenMeta uses concurrent execution to browse through all configured add-ons 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 add-on's advanced settings to use a native selection dialog instead.

OpenMeta can improve your current Kodi usage pattern:

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

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

* OpenMeta is completely legal and provides no links at all. It only re-arranges the content of your other, already installed, add-ons.