Kodi (software)
Kodi (formerly XBMC) is a free and open-source media player software application developed by the XBMC Foundation, a non-profit technology consortium. Kodi is available for multiple operating systems and hardware platforms, with a software 10-foot user interface for use with televisions and remote controls. It allows users to play and view most streaming media, such as videos, music, podcasts, and videos from the internet, as well as all common digital media files from local and network storage media.
It is a popular multi-platform alternative to Windows Media Center for HTPC (home theater PC) use. Kodi is highly customizable: a variety of skins can change its appearance, and various plug-ins allow users to access streaming media content via online services such as Amazon Prime Instant Video, Crackle, Pandora Internet Radio, Rhapsody Spotify, and YouTube. The later versions also have PVR (personal video recorder) graphical front end for receiving live television with electronic program guide (EPG) and high-definition digital video recorder (DVR) support.
Media center
Media center or media centre may refer to:
Audio-visual software and devices
Journalism
Librarianship
JRiver Media Center
JRiver Media Center is a multimedia application that allows the user to play and organize various types of media on a computer running Windows or Mac OS X.
JRiver Media Center is a "jukebox"-style media player, like iTunes, which usually uses most of the screen to display a potentially very large library of files.
Regular (usually daily beta) builds are posted on the Media Center Interact forum implementing requested features and fixing reported bugs. The forum has an active user community, with more than 25,000 users as of 2011.
Also available for JRiver Media Center are an Audioscrobbler plugin, and G-Force, a popular visualisation.
It can also rip and burn CDs. MediaCenter also supports static and dynamic playlists.
Library system
JRiver Media Center organizes files using Media Libraries, these are effective databases. Media Center can support multiple libraries.
Information relating to media is imported into the library including meta data for media files and the path to the media files. The media files themselves are not contained in the database, but cataloged within the libraries.
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