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> I still have tonnes of .rar. Exclusively for legacy reasons (you can google why .rar exists), sure i could spend the time extracting everything, or continue using Kodi which is my current solution.

I don't understand why you'd want to keep media files in .rar, unless you are part of scene distribution.

It's not like ROM emulation, where there's tangible savings to be had storing the individual ROMs in a compressed format.

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Well, for the longest time, like a decade+, there was no point to spend the time unpacking the files. I could watch them with unrar| mplayer without any problems. Then XBMC came along and everything continued to work without a hitch, it isn't until now the need to unpack them has actually presented itself so i of course see this as a step back and degradation in my personal user experience.

But i guess times are changing, kids these days etc. :)

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