[zorg2000k]

@zorg2000k , I don't know what might cause the issue you describe.  In my portable Matrix installation (latest nightly, from yesterday) with Amber from GitHub, I do not have that issue.  I am running Kodi under Windows 10.  There are may changes in the GitHub version in order to update Amber to the Matrix skinning engine changes, but I have no idea how any of them could affect not being able to add video or music sources.  That is not something that a skin controls.  

Could you try with the latest Kodi Matrix nightly and update the skin from GitHub to see if the issue appears again? And could you please post a debug log of when the issue happens? Thank you for your help.

Regards,

Bart

Looking through my kodi error log, I can see this error for missing file : script-skinshortcuts-includes.xml

2020-11-12 16:16:36.558 T:1216     INFO <general>: Error loading include file C:\Users\Stuart\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\skin.amber\1080i\script-skinshortcuts-includes.xml: Failed to open file (row: 0, col: 0)

That file and this one seems to be missing from github download, unless they shouldn't be included of course : script-skinviewtypes-includes.xml

2020-11-12 16:16:36.558 T:1216     INFO <general>: Error loading include file C:\Users\Stuart\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\skin.amber\1080i\script-skinviewtypes-includes.xml: Failed to open file (row: 0, col: 0)

Copied these both over from Kodi 18 and Amber Leia folder and it now allows me to add videos and rotating extrafanart is working,

Getting errors no on main menu for Skinshortcuts with the following error in Kodi log

2020-11-12 16:32:41.888 T:3196  WARNING <general>: Skin has invalid include: skinshortcuts-template-shelfgroup2shelvesbackground
2020-11-12 16:32:41.888 T:3196  WARNING <general>: Skin has invalid include: skinshortcuts-template-shelfgroup3shelvesbackground
2020-11-12 16:32:41.888 T:3196  WARNING <general>: Skin has invalid include: skinshortcuts-template-shelfgroup1
2020-11-12 16:32:41.888 T:3196  WARNING <general>: Skin has invalid include: skinshortcuts-template-shelfgroup2
2020-11-12 16:32:41.888 T:3196  WARNING <general>: Skin has invalid include: skinshortcuts-template-shelfgroup3
2020-11-12 16:32:41.888 T:3196  WARNING <general>: Skin has invalid include: skinshortcuts-template-shelfgroup4
2020-11-12 16:32:41.888 T:3196  WARNING <general>: Skin has invalid include: skinshortcuts-template-shelfgroup5
2020-11-12 16:32:41.888 T:3196  WARNING <general>: Skin has invalid include: skinshortcuts-template-shelfgroup6
2020-11-12 16:32:41.888 T:3196  WARNING <general>: Skin has invalid include: skinshortcuts-template-ShelfIndicator
2020-11-12 16:32:41.889 T:3196  WARNING <general>: Skin has invalid include: skinshortcuts-template-ShelfOnUpMainMenu

Cheers Zorg

@zorg2000k , thanks for investigating further.  Those two include files should not be included in Git, since they are auto-generated.  The script-skinshortcuts-includes.xml is generated by script.skinshortcuts, which is needed by the skin in order to customize menus/submenus/widgets.  The script-skinviewtypes-includes.xml is generated by script.skinvariables, which is used by the skin for the new, graphical, view type selector.  My guess is that you did not have either of those addons installed when you did the clean install of Matrix Alpha 3.  Is that the case? Please confirm.  Thanks.

As for the other warnings in the log, they are OK, they just mean that you do not have any widgets configured.

Regards,

Bart

Thanks Bart,

Something now right with this clean build, I found a Matrix github for : script.skinvariables - installed fine

Struggling to find the Martix repo or github for script.skinshortcuts. Tried this one https://github.com/mikesilvo164/script.skinshortcuts

Installs but on main screen in Kodi I get skin shortcut errors.