[ronie]

2020-04-04 new infolabels

ListItem.BitRate
The bitrate of a song. Actual rate for CBR, average rate for VBR.

ListItem.SampleRate
The sample rate of a song / 1000.0 eg 44.1, 48, 96 etc.

ListItem.MusicChannels
The number of audio channels of a song.


pull-request: https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/17540
commit: https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/commit/3a02...62bef1dff7

[ronie]

2020-04-16 xbmc.gui bump

xbmc.gui has been bumped to 5.15.0 for Kodi Matrix


pull-request: https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/17645
commit: https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/commit/0fcb...e5d5ecf1ef

[black_eagle]

2020-06-04 new infolabel

ListItem.AlbumStatus
The Musicbrainz release status of the album (offical, bootleg, promotion etc).


Pull request: https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/17990
commit: https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/commit/c057...e55053a482

[ronie]

2020-06-04 new infolabels

System.BuildVersionCode
the internal version of the kodi build

System.BuildVersionGit
the git version (sha) of the kodi build


Pull request: https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/17994
commit: https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/commit/72e1...11e9cb42be

[ronie]

2020-07-13 changed builtin function

PlayMedia(file, 1)
this now also works for music files. adding the '1' param will prevent kodi from switching to the fullscreen visualisation window.


Pull request: https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/18138
commit: https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/commit/2e7a...461c4c4f5f

[ronie]

2020-07-17 new infobool

- ListItem.Property(Addon.IsFromOfficialRepo)

will return true if the addon is from an official repository.



pull-request: https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/18111
commit: https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/commit/7b97...1ac43b925d

[ronie]

2020-07-28 new builtin function

- PlayerControl(Tempo(...))

in addition to TempoUp and TempoDown, you can now set the tempo value directly:
PlayerControl(Tempo(1.5))



pull-request: https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/18182
commit: https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/commit/4cbc...fd2ffd4d8e

[ronie]

2020-07-31 changed infobools

• String.StartsWith()
  
• String.EndsWith()
  
• String.Contains()
  

these bolean conditions can now also compare two infolabels.
i.e. String.Contains(ListItem.Label, Skin.String(foo))



pull-request: https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/18190
commit: https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/commit/1eb2...5d8f34490a

[DaveBlake]

2020-08-05 Add button to GUIDialogSelect

A 3rd optional button id=8 added

pull-request: https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/18235

[ronie]

2020-07-28 new infobool and infolabel

- ListItem.Property(Addon.IsBinary)

will return true for binary addons

- ListItem.Property(Addon.OriginType)

edit: removed as it's a duplicate of ListItem.AddonOrigin https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/18266


pull-request: https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/18181
commit: https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/commit/1639...555a95c752

[DaveBlake]

2020-08-19 new infolabel

- ListItem.Property(Album_Duration)

will return album duration as a HH:MM:SS formatted string

Note: ListItem.Duration will also now be populated when content = "albums", previously in music only content = "songs" had a value.

pull-request: https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/18257
Commit: https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/commit/167b...169654370a

[ronie]

2020-09-01 functional change

when a user switches to a different skin through Settings > Interface > Skin,
it will now load the new skin from Startup.xml (instead of staying on the settings window).

this will help skins that depend on Startup.xml to set up their skin, like
- running a script to populate the main menu
- setting window properties


pull-request: https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/18319
Commit: https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/commit/4fec...bbf450a46a

[ronie]

2020-09-12 new infobools

ListItem.IsAutoUpdateable
returns True if this add-on can be updated automatically.
(ie. auto-update is enabled for this addon)

ListItem.Property(Addon.IsUpdate)
returns True if this add-on is a valid update of an installed outdated add-on.
(ie. this will return False if the addon was installed through the official Kodi addon repo, and a third-party repo provides a higher version
useful in the list of available addon updates in the addon browser)

Pull request: https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/18381
commit: https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/commit/197d...e20cbff78d

[ronie]

2020-09-13 new infolabels

besides 'marked as broken', addons can now also be 'marked as deprecated'.
to accompany for this change, the following new infolabels have been added:

ListItem.AddonLifecycleType
this returns a localized string, it can be one of the following:

• 24169 - "Normal"
  
• 24170 - "Deprecated"
  
• 24171 - "Broken"
  

ListItem.AddonLifecycleDesc
this replaces the ListItem.AddonBroken infolabel (will still work for now, but it's going to be removed in the future)

Pull request: https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/18286
commit: https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/commit/4eee...a382eb2b32

[ronie]

2020-09-19 new infolabel + infobool

MusicPlayer.TotalDiscs
the number of discs associated with the album of the currently playing track.

MusicPlayer.IsMultiDisc
returns True if the track currently playing is from an album that has more than one disc.


pull-request: https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/18420
commit: https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/commit/923c...50586f94f1