[Gade]

 

12.3.5 FOR KODI 19 MATRIX
8-November-2021

 

Available through the official Kodi repository!

INSTALLING

To install this skin for Kodi 19 Matrix, you must do so from the Add-on Manager within Kodi:

1. Navigate to Settings
   
2. Add-ons
   
3. Install from repository
   
4. Kodi Add-on repository
   
5. Look and feel
   
6. Skins
   
7. Rapier
   
8. Install
   

DEVELOPMENT VERSION

You can manually install my repository to automatically receive the newest development updates.
You will still receive the official updates.


NEW FEATURES IN RAPIER 12:

HOME SCREEN
 

• Fanart backgrounds has been added for the home screen Add-ons category and windows. Screenshot.
  Go to Skin Settings > Backgrounds > Custom Backgrounds > Add-ons. Screenshot.
  
• Info on next video during playback has been added to Now Playing widget. Screenshot.
  

VIEWS
 

• New feature has been added to grey out missing movies in a set or episodes. Screenshot 1. Screenshot 2.
  Click here for details.
  
• New View: Extended List 2. Screenshot 1. Screenshot 2. Screenshot 3. Screenshot 4.
  This new view type is available for tv shows and artists.
  It will feature 3 lists:
  - TV shows: tv shows, seasons and episodes
  - Artists: artists, albums and songs
  
• Major code cleanup and rewrite of views.
  This will significantly speed up most views.
  This also means that some views have changed ID's, and they need to be selected in the libraries again.
  
• List Info View and Wrap List Info View has been created for movie and tv show actors. Screenshot 1. Screenshot 2. Screenshot 3.
  This requires the script plugin.video.themoviedb.helper
  
• Extended List view has been added for music artists. Screenshot 1. Screenshot 2.
  
• Support has been added for album boxsets. Screenshot.
  
• Sort methods are now a drop down dialog instead of a select dialog. Screenshot.
  This will make navigation easier and the views will be less interrupted.
  
• Thumbs Info view for clear art is now available for movies and sets.
  
• Support for all duration types have been added to all music views. Screenshot 1. Screenshot 2.
  
• Total rewrite and code cleanup of programs windows. Screenshot 1. Screenshot 2.
  The views have been decreased and now follow the rest of the skin's view types.
  
• Recoded an improved "Fanart View". Screenshot 1. Screenshot 2. Screenshot 3. Screenshot 4. Screenshot 5. Screenshot 6.
  This view type now offers much better functionality and design.
  
• Subtitle and audio language media flags are now built directly into the skin.
  No addon is required for this feature.
  
• Added oninfo action ("I" or "Info" on a remote) in all programs windows to open programs information window.
  
• Greatly improved info for movie sets.
  
• Image overlay has been added if an add-on is marked broken. Screenshot.
  
• Australian certification ratings media flags has been added
  
• Certification ratings media flags has been added to tv shows and season
  
• New media flags are added: Ultra-HD Blu-ray and support for AV1 video codec.
  

INFORMATION WINDOWS
 

• Support for movie set information window has been added. Screenshot 1. Screenshot 2.
  This window will feature a lot of info and functions.
  Script.skin.helper.service is recommended for extra info.
  
• PVR recordings information window: added a "Find similar" button.
  
• PVR guide information window: added a "Set reminder" button. Screenshot.
  Use this button to set PVR timer reminders.
  
• New tags has been added to the PVR information window:
  - "New"
  - "Premiere"
  - "Finale"
  - "Live"
  
• Music information window:
  - release date infolabel
  - original date infolabel
  - BPM infolabel
  - multidisc support Screenshot.
  - support for all duration types Screenshot 1. Screenshot 2.
  - reconfigure infolabels
  
• Add-on information window:
  - Information drop down dialog has been added instead of toggle button Screenshot 1. Screenshot 2.
  - Changelog button has been added to new dialog Screenshot 2.
  - Add new infolabels
  - Add "Versions" button
  - Move summary to description section
  
• Improvements for picture information dialog. Screenshot.
  

FULLSCREEN VIDEO WINDOW
 

• Info has been added on playing media to fullscreen seekbar dialog. Screenshot with clearart. Screenshot with poster art.
  This will display after 5 seconds.
  
• EDL and chapter marks has been added to the fullscreen video window.
  EDL and chapter marks are now visible in the seekbar.
  EDL marks at the top and chapter marks at the bottom.
  
• Selected skin settings are now available directly from the fullscreen video OSD. Screenshot 1. Screenshot 2.
  - Focus the miscellaneous settings button and click "Skin settings"
  
• OSD dialog has been added to control player tempo. Screenshot 1. Screenshot 2.
  - Play button needs to be focused
  - Settings > Player > Videos > Playback > Sync playback to display: needs to be enabled
  
• Info on next video during playback has been added to fullcreen video window (if no chapter info is available).
  
• Audio track and subtitle language media flags has been added to fullscreen video window.
  

FULLSCREEN MUSIC WINDOW

• Selected skin settings are now available directly from the fullscreen music OSD. Screenshot 1. Screenshot 2.
  - Focus the settings button and click "Skin settings"
  
• A button has been added to fullscreen music OSD to access audio settings. Screenshot 1. Screenshot 2.
  - Focus the settings button and click "Audio settings"
  
• Multidisc information has been added in the fullscreen music window. Screenshot.
  

DIALOGS
 

• A settings level button has been added to the add-on settings dialog. Screenshot.
  Use this button to hide/show settings in the dialog.
  
• Info on next video during playback has been added to Player Controls dialog. Screenshot.
  

PVR
 

• Full support for PVR reminders. Screenshot.
  
• PVR Guide: View option has been added to hide PVR guide colors to achieve a cleaner look.
  
• Guide controls dialog has been added to the PVR guide window. Screenshot
  This dialog makes navigating the guide window much easier.
  You can add it to your keymaps using "ActivateWindow(PVRGuideControls)". Or activate the dialog with "n" or long pressing enter/return.
  
• PVR group manager dialog now support latest Kodi features. Screenshot.
  A "Regenerate thumbnails" button has been added and all lists show the icon/thumbnail.
  
• Added icons for playable and archive items.
  

SKIN SETTINGS
 

• Add up to 6 add-on shortcuts for all custom categories. Screenshot 1. Screenshot 2. Screenshot 3.
  
• -Add-on shordcuts can now be added for all categories (previously only regular ones).
  
• All add-on shortcuts can choose from all add-ons (previously limited to category).
  
• A new feature has been added to add any addon content as a widget using favourites. Screenshot 1. Screenshot 2.
  This is extremely useful when creating custom categories like Netflix, Disney+ etc.
  It works the same way as custom widgets.
  
• Removed Add-ons category
  
• All lyrics settings has been moved to Skin Settings > Media > Fullscreen Music. Screenshot.
  
• Skin Settings: setting to enable/disable weather has been removed. Screenshot.
  - If a weather add-on is installed, weather features are enabled
  
• Added Weather Add-on Settings button to Skin Settings > Weather. Screenshot.
  
• Skin settings -> Supported add-ons will now also show if an add-on is disabled.
  Also, when an add-on used by the skin is disabled, you will be prompted to enable it.
  
• Refactor of Skin Settings > Views.
  Skin settings > Views need to be set again for certain views.
  
• Skin setting to switch to visualization when playing music has been removed.
  Instead, go to "Settings > Media > Music > Switch to visualization on playback".
  
• The skin setting for custom time for fanart backgrounds has been removed.
  All fanart backgrounds will display for 10 seconds before changing.
  
• Skin Settings > General > Enable Splash Screen is now built into the skin.
  No add-on is required.
  
• Skin Settings > Media > Hide subtitle count / Hide audio language count is now built into the skin.
  No add-on is required.
  
• script.skin.helper.service has been replaced with script.embuary.helper in Skin settings: Reorder categories.
  This is done as script.skin.helper.service has not yet officially been updated for Kodi 19.
  

ADD-ONS
 

• Support has been added for the add-on Multi Weather (weather.multi). Screenshot of weather window. Screenshot of home screen.
  
• All features of the add-on Skin Helper Backgrounds (script.skin.helper.backgrounds) has been coded directly into the skin.
  This add-on can be safely uninstalled.
  
• All features of the add-on Random And Last Items (script.randomandlastitems) has been coded directly into the skin.
  This add-on can be safely uninstalled.
  
• Support has been added for actor info in Extended List View. Screenshot of movie library. Screenshot of tv show library.
  You need to manually install the add-on plugin.video.themoviedb.helper
  Perhaps you need to enter a TMDB API key in the add-on settings.
  
• Support for Embuary Info Script (script.embuary.info) has been added. Screenshot of actor information window. Screenshot of plot in movie information window. Screenshot of actors in movie information window.
  
• Support for CoreELEC has been added.
  
• Support for the add-on CDArt Manager has been removed (cdart.png images can still be used).
  Use the scrapers instead.
  
• Completely removed add-ons:
  - script.artwork.downloader
  - script.artwork.beef (now hardcoded into scrapers/Kodi)
  - weather.weatherbit.io (use weather.multi instead)
  - script.imdbupdate
  - script.extendedinfo
  - script.youtube.browser
  - script.tv.show.next.aired
  
• Replace removed addons using plugin.video.youtube, plugin.video.themoviedb.helper, script.embuary.info and script.embuary.helper. Screenshot of tv guide
  

MISCELLANEOUS
 

• Raleway fontset has been added to better support Russian.
  

The first post will always be updated with the latest information and changelog.
If you have any problems or find any bugs, please let me know right away.
Also, if you have features, ideas, designs etc. you would like added, I'll be more than happy to help.


DEVELOPMENT

You can always follow latest development, download uncompressed textures etc. on Github.


WIKI

You can find a detailed guide to Rapier's skin settings at the wiki.


Please keep this thread reserved for Rapier for Kodi 19 Matrix.
Click here for Rapier for Kodi 20 Nexus.
Click here for Rapier for Kodi 18 Leia


SCREENSHOTS


CHANGELOG:

RAPIER 12.3.0 MATRIX
 

Code:

- Remove script.extendedinfo
- Remove script.youtube.browser
- Remove script.tv.show.next.aired
- Replace removed addons using plugin.video.youtube, plugin.video.themoviedb.helper, script.embuary.info and script.embuary.helper.
- Media flag support for Ultra-HD Blu-ray (using ".bdxl" / ".hdr" / "bd66" / "bd100" in the filename).
- Skin Settings > General > Enable Splash Screen is now built into the skin.
- Improvements for PVR channel manager dialog.
- Remove weather.weatherbit.io from supported add-ons section.
- Add support for AV1 video codec.
- All add-on shortcuts can choose from all add-ons.
- If skin setting "Show CD art and info in fullscreen music" is enabled the window will not open with info dialog diaplayed.
- Add audio track and subtitle language media flags to fullscreen video window.
- Reintroduced improved fanart view.
- Extended List 2 view for artists: albums are now sorted by year.
- Removed support for script.artwork.beef.
- Improvements for picture information dialog.
- PVR view option "Channel icons" will show both channel icon and channel name.
- Add up to 6 add-on shortcuts for all custom categories.

PREVIOUS VERSIONS
 

Code:

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12.2.26 (18-January-21)
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- Added "Versions" button to add-on information window.
- Added "Origin" information to add-on information window.

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12.2.25 (11-November-20)
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- Cleanup views.

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12.2.24 (3-October-20)
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- Add skin settings to create custom widgets from favourites.

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12.2.23 (1-October-20)
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- Add station name in fullscreen music window when streaming music.
- Add record size label to PVR recordings window and information window.

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12.2.22 (29-September-20)
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- Fix movie set information button in context menu.

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12.2.21 (22-September-20)
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- Add multidisc info in fullscreen music window.

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12.2.20 (13-September-20)
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- Fix buttons for randomizing playlist content.
- Add new add-on infolabels.

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12.2.19 (8-September-20)
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- Add Extended List View for tv shows, containing seasons and episodes.
- Add Extended List View for artists, containing albums and songs.

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12.2.18 (29-August-20)
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- Sort methods are now a drop down dialog instead of select dialog.
- Added List Info View for movie and tv show actors.
- Added Wrap List Info View for movie and tv show actors.

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12.2.17 (22-August-20)
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- Add new infolabels to music information window.
- Added duration to music album views.

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12.2.16 (18-August-20)
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- Added image overlay if add-on is marked broken.
- Added Raleway font to better support Russian language.
- Add new feature to grey out missing movies in a set or episodes (tag filename with "Missingvideo" or "missingvideo").
- Skin Settings: clicking custom category icons button will reset the path.
- Adding "bdremux" to a filename will display a blu-ray media flag.

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12.2.15 (7-August-20)
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- Added button id=8 to select dialog.

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12.2.14 (2-August-20)
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- Bugfixing of movie and tv show backgrounds in libraries.

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12.2.13 (30-July-20)
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- Replaced home screen Movies category submenu "Studios" with "Sets".
- Bugfixing (thanks to Karellen).

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12.2.12 (29-July-20)
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- Added Australian certification ratings media flags.
- Added rating media flags for tv shows and seasons.

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12.2.11 (29-July-20)
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- Added fullscreen video OSD dialog to control player tempo (when play button is focused).

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12.2.10 (28-July-20)
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- Removed Skin setting to enable/disable weather. If a weather add-on is installed, weather features are enabled.
- Added Weather Add-on Settings button to Skin Settings > Weather.

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12.2.9 (28-July-20)
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- Bugfixing of views (thanks to Karellen).

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12.2.8 (26-July-20)
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- Completely remove script.artwork.downloader.
- Completely removed script.imdbupdate.
- Removed Skin Settings category: Add-ons.
- Moved all lyrics settings to Skin Settings > Media > Fullscreen Music.

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12.2.7 (28-June-20)
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- Added Information drop down dialog to the menubar in add-on information window.
- Added Changelog button in the new drop down dialog in add-on information window.
- Added button for audio settings in fullscreen music OSD.

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12.2.6 (14-June-20)
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- Updated version code details in system information window.
- Selected Skin Settings are now available in a dialog in fullscreen music / video windows.

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12.2.5 (8-May-20)
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- Bugfixing.
- Add support for Multi Weather add-on (weather.multi).
- Updated translations from Transifex.

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12.2.4 (2-May-20)
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- Better handling of installed and enabled/disabled add-ons.
- Greatly improved info for movie sets.

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12.2.3 (25-April-20)
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- Add "Premiere" / "Finale" / "Live" tags to PVR information window.
- TV Show Today widget and Upcoming TV Shows widget now use script.embuary.info.

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12.2.2 (18-April-20)
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- Add support for music album boxsets.
- Added album compilations and boxsets to presets dialog.
- Added album boxsets to library options dialog.

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12.2.1 (16-April-20)
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- Bump xbmc.gui
- Removed dependency on script.skin.helper.widgets.
- Added dependency on script.embuary.helper.
- Favourites widget no longer requires script.skin.helper.widgets.
- In Progress Episodes widget and quick jump alphabet feature now use script.embuary.helper.

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12.2.0 (9-April-20)
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- Removed script.skin.helper.backgrounds and coded features directly into the skin.
- Removed skin setting for custom time for fanart backgrounds. Default for all images is now 10 seconds.
- Bugfixing for playlist background images for custom categories.
- Added fanart backgrounds for home screen Add-ons category and windows.

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12.1.19 (5-April-20)
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- Removed script.randomandlastitems and coded features directly into the skin.

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12.1.18 (29-March-20)
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- Fix for formatted short duration.
- Cosmetic improvements for Now Playing widget.
- Cosmetic improvements for Player Controls dialog.
- Added info on next video title in Now Playing widget.
- Added info on next video title in Player Controls dialog.
- Added info on next video title in fullscreen video if no chapter info is available.
- Better support for Next Aired TV Show add-on (script.tv.show.next.aired).

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12.1.17 (12-March-20)
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- Add skin clearlogo and banner images.
- Add new info labels to music information window: release date, original date, BPM.

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12.1.16 (25-February-20)
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- Changed Skin Settings > Add more categories to only one button and more user friendly.

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12.1.15 (9-February-20)
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- Remove skin setting to switch to visualization when playing music (go to "Settings/Media/Music/Switch to visualization on playback" instead).

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12.1.14 (14-February-20)
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- Add info on playing media to fullscreen seekbar dialog (after 5 seconds).

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12.1.13 (7-February-20)
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- Add better mouse support to home screen categories (thanks to olympus).
- Fix label for tv shows in custom widgets (thanks to olympus).

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12.1.12 (2-February-20)
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- Switch to custom window for display of path using text viewer dialog (instead of script.skin.helper.service).

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12.1.11 (9-January-20)
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- Support for actor info in Extended List View (plugin.video.themoviedb.helper).
- Added plugin.video.themoviedb.helper and script.embuary.info to Skin Settings > Supported Add-ons.
- Fixed scrollbar in Skin Settings > Supported Add-ons.

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12.1.10 (21-December-19)
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- Fix service.upnext errors.

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12.1.9 (17-December-19)
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- Support for Embuary Info script (script.embuary.info).

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12.1.8 (17-December-19)
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- Label 2 for tv shows will now show rating.
- Fixes for List View.

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12.1.7 (9-December-19)
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- Add check if library nodes exist.

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12.1.6 (30-November-19)
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- It's now possible to switch to Playlist View in all windows, when more than one music or video track is playing.
- CPU info is now hidden if it's not supported by the system.

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12.1.5 (22-November-19)
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- Added oninfo action in programs windows to open programs information window.

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12.1.4 (21-November-19)
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- Support for Artist Slideshow 2.x / 3.x.

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12.1.3 (21-November-19)
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- Major bugfixing (huge thanks to olympus).

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12.1.2 (10-November-19)
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- Changed Arial font for home screen categories to better support different languages.

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12.1.1 (10-October-19)
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- Adjustments to subtitle dialog.

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12.1.0 (08-October-19)
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- Major code cleanup and rewrite of views.
- Refactor of Skin Settings: Views.
- Thumbs Info view for clear art is now available for movies and sets.
- Actors in video information window will always display images.
- Removed support for script.cdartmanager (cdart.png images can still be used). Use Artwork Beef instead.
- Fix for album covers when playing music.
- Added "(New!)" label in PVR information window for new premieres.
- Added feature to enable add-ons used by the skin, if disabled.
- Skin settings -> Supported add-ons will now show if an add-on is disabled.
- Added Extended List View for music artists.
- Added guide controls to PVR guide window.
- Added label to numeric dialog.

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12.0.12 (10-August-19)
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- Disabling clear logos is now a global setting either for the video, music or PVR libraries.

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12.0.11 (8-August-19)
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- Added support for CoreELEC.

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12.0.10 (12-July-19)
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- Removed fanart view to improve performance.
- Cleanup Home window code.
- Updated PVR group manager dialog to support latest features.

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12.0.9 (6-July-19)
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- Added PVR.IsPlayingActiveRecording bool.

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12.0.8 (20-June-19)
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- Cleanup using expressions.
- Fixed navigation from home button in PVR information window.

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12.0.7 (18-June-19)
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- Rewrite and code cleanup of programs windows.
- Added "Information" button to context menu when running programs.

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12.0.6 (18-June-19)
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- Code cleanup on certain view types and animations.

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12.0.5 (9-June-19)
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- Bugfixing.

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12.0.4 (30-May-19)
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- Added skin setting to disable scrollbar trailer playback.

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12.0.3 (25-May-19)
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- Added DefaultBluray.png icon.
- Fixed no background in PVR information window when accessed from home window.

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12.0.2 (17-May-19)
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- Added icons for playable and archive PVR items.

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12.0.1 (5-May-19)
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- Added video info window for movie sets.

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12.0.0 (2-May-19)
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- Added "Find similar" button to PVR recordings information window.
- Added settings level button in add-on settings dialog.
- Added EDL and chapter marks to progress bar in fullscreen video window.
- Added "Set reminder" button to PVR guide information window.
- Added full support for PVR reminders.
- Updated PVR timers window with more info and better design.
- Added View Option setting for channel icons in PVR timers window.

Full changelog can be viewed here.


TRANSLATIONS

Translation of the skin is handled on Weblate.
Please sign up and join the project to translate this skin.
A huge thanks to all the translators for the great work - it's really appreciated!


SUPPORTED AND RECOMMENDED ADD-ONS (AUTOMATIC INSTALLATION)

Favourites script (ronie, `Black)
Embuary Helper (sualfred)
White Studio Icons (Team Kodi)


SUPPORTED ADD-ONS (KODI ADD-ON REPOSITORY INSTALLATION)

Skin Helper Service (marcelveldt)
Embuary Info (sualfred)
Rapier UI Sounds (Gade)
Global Search (ronie)
Image Resource Script (ronie)
Artist Slideshow (ronie, pkscout)
CU LRC Lyrics (Taxigps, ronie)
Skin Helper Skinbackup (marcelveldt)
Multi Weather (ronie)
CinemaVision (CinemaVision)
Library Node Editor (Unfledged, Team-Kodi)
User Rating Script (Regss)
script.module.t9.search (Phil65)
service.upnext (im85288)
Audio Profiles (Regss)
Autocompletions for virtual keyboard (phil65)
Special Features (smitchell6879, evertiro)
Image resource genre icons, weather icons and genre fanart, weather fanart add-ons...


SUPPORTED ADD-ONS (MANUAL INSTALLATION)

Netflix Add-on
MyPicsDB (Xycl, MikeBZH44, Alexsolex)
Library Editor Script (phil65)


DONATIONS

If you like Rapier and want to buy me a coffee or beer, feel free to donate. Greatly appreciated!

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