Other Technology | May 6, 2024
It has happened again. All users who used the Cristal Azul add-on in Kodi to watch movies, TV series, or sports broadcasts have found overnight that it is not working and are asking the same questions they did last February: Why is Cristal Azul from Kodi not working? What happened with the Cristal Azul 3.0.8 addon that its contents are not available to those who had it installed in their media center?
To find out why Cristal Azul from Kodi is not working in April 2024, many have turned to Telegram groups, where there are several channels directed at the community of Kodi app users and their most popular add-ons. The Telegram channel Cristal Azul Novedades is used by the creators of this add-on to communicate news or problems, as has been the case at the beginning of this month.
The operational issues with Cristal Azul for Kodi in its version 3.0.8 are related to a massive deletion of the contents on the server that hosted them. This is the same problem that Cristal Azul experienced last February, which has sparked concern among its users. The maintainers of the add-on assured on Telegram that there is currently no planned solution to this Cristal Azul outage unless the server reverses its actions and restores all the content that was in the add-on.
Although it is a setback, more experienced Kodi users are accustomed to reinventing themselves and installing new versions of the add-ons to continue accessing audiovisual content. However, at the moment there are several doubts about the future of Cristal Azul 3.0.9, such as when the new version of the Kodi add-on will be available for installation, whether through the Luar repository where previous versions were hosted or by other means.
The developers of Cristal Azul have stated that they currently do not plan to re-upload all their content to a new server. “We need to study the situation because we cannot be re-uploading everything again every so often,” they commented on Telegram to their followers. They also acknowledged that there is currently no clarity on what the next steps will be.
In any case, on another Telegram channel, Kodi Global Info., the administrator of Cristal Azul Picapau did upload a ZIP file with the ‘plugin’ for version 3.0.9 of Cristal Azul. However, for the time being, this file only contains information given the uncertainty surrounding the future of this add-on. Those who install it will be able to check when Cristal Azul will be available again, as it should automatically update in Kodi if there is a new update, or they can also check in Luar, the Kodi repository where the latest versions of Cristal Azul were hosted.
