It's now time to get XBMC to use our content, which can be done from a variety of locations and protocols.
Adding sources allows XBMC to access the locations we add and play content from them.
The following steps show how you can add a source in XBMC:
From the main menu, open the relevant section based on the type of source we are adding. For example, if we are adding a video source, we should select Videos.
Now, select the files.
If you are planning on using a USB device, you will see that they are already shown; however, the device can be defined as a source as well. The advantages of this are as follows:
When using Library Mode, something that we will explore in Chapter 4, Streaming from a Computer, you may have different types of content on the drive—such as TV shows and movies—in different folders. Setting the content type can only be done at the drive level if this is treated as a source.
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Setting content types this way may not...