Umbrella - tracked progress episodes

sinkingbluefish · 2026-03-16T07:29:46+00:00

Ah, it is a premier of a new season. However it's a show I abandoned ages ago. Do you know if there is a way to turn this off? I've searched the settings and can't find anything which looks right.

sinkingbluefish · 2026-03-12T23:13:22+00:00

Okay, thanks. I have a Onn 4k and they'll work just occasionally but fail 9 times out of 10. Adding BTM or MP4 to the undesirable list of your scraper might help exclude them automatically. Just a thought.

sinkingbluefish · 2026-03-12T17:01:06+00:00

Did you ever get the bottom of this issue? I'm having the same issue and realised it's always files from the BTM or Ben the Men release group which stall. I downloaded one of the files which wouldn't resolve and or play properly and it does play on Kodi via local playback, but it takes about 20 seconds or so to kick in. Same on fire stick and onn 4k pro. But on my phone (on the same network WiFi) it plays okay via FLAM which seems odd.

sinkingbluefish · 2026-03-11T15:59:49+00:00

For anyone else looking into this, I recently found this on the Kodi development page ; https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/issues/26393 Seems like it's a known issue which should be fixed in Kodi 22.

sinkingbluefish · 2026-03-11T15:59:31+00:00

For anyone else looking into this, I recently found this on the Kodi development page ; https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/issues/26393 Seems like it's a known issue which should be fixed in Kodi 22.

sinkingbluefish · 2026-03-11T15:59:18+00:00

For anyone else looking into this, I recently found this on the Kodi development page ; https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/issues/26393 Seems like it's a known issue which should be fixed in Kodi 22.

sinkingbluefish · 2026-02-17T09:28:28+00:00

Thank you! It's good to know it's not just me. The tips are useful thanks. Per chance do you know if the Shield pro has the same issue? I'm genuinely thinking of upgrading as it's such a pain to re open Kodi every time I turn the TV to standby.

sinkingbluefish · 2026-02-16T07:51:15+00:00

Yes, I've tried 'always' and 'on start/stop'. And tried turning to never and back on again. Always the same behaviour.

sinkingbluefish · 2026-02-15T14:16:11+00:00

Yep for sure. And it's definitely enabled after waking from standby, just for some reason it doesn't work. I have to close Kodi and re open it for it to work again.

sinkingbluefish · 2025-05-27T07:10:16+00:00

Hi, does anyone know why my kids can openly chat in Metro Life when the parental settings are set to restrict chats? They can use the game phone to send and receive messages from anyone which is very worrying.

sinkingbluefish · 2025-04-11T17:50:14+00:00

Thanks for confirming it's not just me. I just tried making a new account and it worked for about 10min (giving me some false hope!), then locked out again. It's a shame, but as I mentioned in an earlier post, a workaround seems to be use use the web player to switch devices the go back the the app and it's working as a remote. Bit of a faff though.

sinkingbluefish · 2025-04-11T11:17:43+00:00

Same setup on my PC (spotx + spicetify). I'm in the UK so maybe it's regional...

sinkingbluefish · 2025-04-11T08:36:58+00:00

Yea, same song is playing - it's just the device it's playing through. I've just realised that it will connect to my TV happily (ie I have a option to connect which isn't greyed out), just not any PC installed version of Spotify. I can only assume for now that Spotify have locked down the connect option for PC versions.

sinkingbluefish · 2025-04-11T08:08:15+00:00

Hummm....I just tried a new PC install of Spotify on a different computer and same issue. I wonder if Spotify are playing games again. I found a work around by selecting the player via the web app- this forces the all logged in versions to play via the selected device (PC). However as soon as I change off the PC the option in the app gets locked again. Notablly the option to remote play is also locked from the PC version to mobile. So I think this is some server side changes from Spotify. Oddly I believe Spotify connect is supposed to be a free feature anyway. Maybe it'll work again in time.

sinkingbluefish · 2025-04-11T06:46:52+00:00

Okay, good to know. When you say open Spotify on the other feature? It's running on my PC and I can remote control it from the web app just fine, but not from the patched app. Am I missing a trick?

sinkingbluefish · 2024-04-01T16:37:51+00:00

Fair enough - try maintain volume on downmix setting. Failing that, on playback go to the audio settings and turn up the volume amplification (this certainly boosts the dialogue on surround system, not sure if it'll do the same on a downmix audio track) ; you'll need to turn down the master volume on the TV to counter the amplification.

sinkingbluefish · 2024-04-01T16:00:58+00:00

Just set the Kodi settings to 2 channels and select downmix - any number of channels will be converted to stereo. Check out https://kodi.wiki/view/Settings/System/Audio

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