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If anyone can explain in english howto get this working it be great. The two links provided are way to technical, they might as well have been written in hebrew. It seems the patch or whatever it is does provide exactly the functionality Im seeking though.

That's why I told you that the feature was probably not for you, because is technical, still experimental and not for the faint of heart. Anyway I'll try to explain(from what I understood after reading the info in the links that I already posted) the steps you need to do in order to use it:

1. Setup a MySQL server (a database server) accesible from all the machines running XBMC. Even some NAS support running MySQL server, so an option is to run the database server directly on your NAS (if you have one that supports it) or run it on any machine that you want (MySQL server is freeware and supports lots of OSs).

2. Modify your advancedsettings.xml located in the userdata folder of XBMC adding this lines:

Code:

<videodatabase>
  <type>mysql</type>
  <host>localhost</host>
  <port>3306</port>
  <user>xbmc</user>
  <pass>xbmc</pass>
  <name>xbmc_video</name>
</videodatabase>

where:
host is the network address of the server running MySQL
port is the port used by the MySQL server (default is 3306)
user and pass are the credentials used to connect to the MySQL server
and name is the name of the MySQL database you want XBMC to use it must be all lowercased
(you don't need to create the database, XBMC will create it for you the first time you run it after modifying the advancedsettings.xml).

You can also setup a central database for music albums, you need to add these additional lines to your advancedsettings.xml:

Code:

<musicdatabase>
  <type>mysql</type>
  <host>localhost</host>
  <port>3306</port>
  <user>xbmc</user>
  <pass>xbmc</pass>
  <name>xbmc_music</name>
</musicdatabase>

The same explanation given for videodatabase applys here, just one more thing: you can't share the same database for music and video, so just pick a different name for each database (also all lowercased)
Note: Remember to modify the advancedsettings.xml of each XBMC you intend to share the MySQL database with.

Well that's just about it... wasn't so hard, was it?

@RckStr
Just a piece of advice, when you ask someone for an explanation about something that you don't understand for yourself, at least try to be polite.