XBMC is an open source project that will transform a regular PC into a veritable HTPC (Home theater PC).
Be it music, videos, streams, pictures, online radio or optical discs, XBMC can handle it and manage it for you and best of all, it's free.
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Here are some key features of "XBMC Media Center":
· Media Management
· Fluid Interface
· Plug-ins and Extensibility
· Visualisations
· Lots More
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Fixed infinite loop on addon dependencies, resolves crashing problem that arrose immediately post 12.1 launch
· Numerous UPnP fixes
· Memory leak fixed when XBMC is minimized
· Various Raspberry Pi playback fixes and software codec support
· Fixed OSX audio mixing
· Fixed some audio-related crashes in Linux builds
· AirPlay fixes
· Bluray folder resume-bookmarks now work
· Ability to scan for new content on file folders has been reimplemented
· Language updates from Transifex