MyVideos144 vs MyVideos143

    I run the official Windows and Android releases of Kodi v22 Alpha 3, and they're using MyVideos143 in my MariaDB shared database. LibreELEC v22 Alpha 3 nightlies, however, are using MyVideos144. I'd like to keep them all synced, so is there a reason for this? (I may be mistaken, but it may be that Windows/Android were using 144 and then the official Alpha 3 releases backtracked to 143. For whatever reason, LibreELEC didn't follow suit. That's my impression of what happened, anyway.)

    If there was an issue with MyVideos144 requiring a change to be reverted the outcome would be an increment to MyVideos145 not rollback to MyVideos143. So the more plausible explanation is that something changed since Alpha3 which resulted in MyVideos incrementing to 144. If you want everyone on the same version you either need an older LE nightly that still uses 143 or you need to bump the other devices to Kodi nightlies that now use 144.

    That's what I thought, too. FTR, I've been using v22 since Alpha2, which I downloaded and installed on January 20 (I keep the downloads indefinitely for point releases and official alpha/beta and can look at the file dates), and I use Kodi daily. I notice the database versions when I perform weekly backups.

    Looking at the creation dates of the folders in MariaDB on my Windows server, 144 was created (not "modified") on March 21, and 143 was created on March 30. Odd.

    After using Alpha2 since January and the nightly Windows/Android Alpha3 labeled version for days to weeks, I downloaded and installed the officially released Alpha 3 on March 30. That's when 143 appeared, created 10 minutes after. ISTR previously dropping the 143 table to clean up the database after noticing 144, and that's why I was so surprised to see it again, and for LibreELEC to still be using 144.

    I'll try installing some of those earlier versions to get to get to the bottom of this as well as the current nightly to see what it's using. I'll have to re-download those earlier nightlies, because I delete them after moving to a new one or official release.

    OK, I see what happened, and it was my misunderstanding. The officially released v22 Alpha3 was an earlier version of the Nightly I was using and also predates my LibreELEC. Here are the relevant logs from four sequential installations into a Windows Sandbox. Update 1, the 3/19 Alpha3 Nightly, updated 141 to 144. Update 2, the Alpha3 official, updated 141 to 143. Note that while it has the same version 21.90.703 as the 3/19 Nightly, the official Alpha3 is the 3/11 Nightly. Aha! This explains why the official Alpha3 I downloaded and installed on 3/30 appeared to revert to an earlier database. Finally, Update 3 was the current 4/7 Nightly, and it's using 144.

    Your suggestion on getting the different platforms in sync was correct. LibreELEC has been a straight Nightly path, without the backtracking to an earlier Nightly that the official Alpha3 release did for Windows/Android. I guess the lesson is, once you go Nightly, you stick to Nightly, or more generally, make sure you're using the same version of Kodi, which I know is in the documentation.