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I love this idea, I had some thoughts about this myself.
I'm not a developer, so I can't help with coding, and I'm guessing still much have to be done on just having this branch stable with no gui, meaning full implementation won't be near, but I can still write my thoughts and ideas.
I'm also aware that xbmc greatness derived from the open source community and the ability to include existing code thus getting away from allot of time consuming tasks and some coding that needed to be done by experts (like the video decoding).
1. Just making xbmc and scrapers addons run with no gui is great but with no some dedicated server-client communication protocol the full potential of a server will be missed.
Like having the ability to sync video & audio playback between clients and having the control from one client (or any) or from the server (by web gui or android remote).
By this with low cost clients like the Raspberry Pi you can get an open source multi zone audio solution.
(although this may be similar or exact to Airplay)
2. Xbmc server shouldn't be a server.
Meaning that it shouldn't be confined.
For example you can run xbmc with no gui but still have the music player thus enabling a remote controlled audio clients.
I guess there are users that would not have a dedicated server, so being able to set one of the clients also as a server would be nice.
3. Having multiple xbmc servers that can share the db is a must.
For example you can have multiple nas servers running xbmc, one share movies from 10T raid, another just music from silent low powered ssd.
Another one could be a tv server locate near the antenna/dish, so no need to run coax cables across the house.
With the ability to share the db (and sync it) you don't need the servers running all the time only the current used ones, thus saving power.
So again communication is the key.
Just 2 cents.
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I'd still like to see server mode as well as it would tie in nicely to services that notify xbmc when downloads are complete (couchpotato, sickbeard, headphones etc)