Why can't I disable or even uninstall these pointless addons like generic album scraper?
Uninstalling useless default add-ons
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dislocate6236 -
February 20, 2026 at 6:05 AM -
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Although they are add-ons, they are 'core' Kodi capabilities and Kodi expects them to be present, hence they are pre-installed and reside inside the squashfs SYSTEM file which is expanded into a virtual filesystem on each boot. You cannot delete something that exists inside a read-only file.
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Ahh okay. And what's the point of that? And can't you program things like that out?
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As 99%+ of users will use the Generic album scraper to scrape their albums, it makes sense to include it in the embedded filesystem instead of incurring bandwidth and the inconvenience of having to download/install it. As Mr Spock says .. "the needs of the many outweight the needs of the few".
If you want to remove it you need to compile your own custom LE image that omits it as a default installed item. You are welcome to do that (all the sources are public and GPLv2) but staff aren't going to be too interested in spoon-feeding instructions, you will need to figure out how on your own. The easier option is to ignore it and/or don't use the generic scraper.
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So here too I am forced to use something I don't need. You're one of the funny kind. Not use? Like if I can't disable it?