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[grahamh]

I sense the replies you are getting are missing the target. You may find this useful:

[Wiki] Noobs guide to Kodi

Getting started with Kodi This is not supposed to be a detailed How-To but a brief overview of Kodi for those unfamiliar with it with some things to consider when setting up your system. Inspired by this thread. Kodi is a mediacentre which is available for a wide range of devices. It can organise all your audio and video media files and on-line sources; share its database of your media with other devices; grab data from the internet relevant to your media (artwork, artist bios, subtitles, …

You can set the library to refresh at startup but that needs an occasional re-boot.