XBMC – formerly named “XBox Media Center” is an award winning free and open source media-player jukebox and entertainment hub for all your digital media. XBMC can play almost all multimedia formats, featuring playlist, audio visualizations, slideshow, and weather forecast functions, and also support third-party plugins. XBMC was developed for first generation of XBox game console, but the development continues to the present so now XBMC become a complete media center that can work under Linux, Mac OSX, and Microsoft Windows systems.

XBMC has a database driven video library view mode which help organize all of your media stright out-of-the-box. Allowing you to easily browse your video content by things like; genre, title, year, actors and directors, as well as carry our extensive searches on casts and related information. Similarly, XBMC’s music library allows the organization of your music collection by information stored in your music file ID meta tags, like title, artist, album, genre and popularity. If internet connection is available, XBMC automatically download posters, artwork, fanart, synopsis and reviews on movies, plot, cast and episode information for TV shows, also album covers and artist information for music.

Current plugins and scripts include functions like Internet TV and radio streams, podcasts, movie-trailer browsers, and cinema guides, e-mail clients, instant messaging, train-timetables, peer-to-peer file-sharing downloaders, IRC, also casual games (sometimes also referred to as mini-games or party-games) such as Tetris, Snake, Space Invaders, Sudoku, and much more.

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