moovida - A media center solution that won't allow you to watch movies.

I am not really a fan of media center software but I wanted to organize all of my media in one location and play them as I pleased. I installed elisa as I once tried beta version of it with it's impressive user interface animation capabilities. Weird but I don't see Elisa entry any where in Ubuntu menu. Package info showed it only contains documentation files and README revealed some off-world creature called moovida.

The fun starts

Started moovida and it showed some vertical areas divided into movies, videos, music, etc. Now all I have to do is add my USB drive to moovida so that it will show some play lists but I couldn't find any option. Instead it scanned some random locations and added some random videos to "Unclassified Videos" in Videos section and I throughly verified whether they are by mistake "Area-51 alien interrogation videos". I couldn't find any option that said add a folder or add file or anything that remotely implied "import your sxxx". At this point of time I was really pissed and started googling how to add videos and it didn't give any results ever after adding f word.

After some googling...

Found it's the section called "Devices & Shares" where you add your media. After digging thorough it and losing all my patience I just started installing "XBMC" hoping it will let me add my media and give me feedback on what it's doing.

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