Plex, one of our favourite desktop media servers, just took the wraps off its streaming Plex/Web service that aims to make your media accessible across all devices. It's also slowly rolling out its next-generation transcoding engine, starting with the Plex app for Windows 8.
Getting your music and movies from one computer to another computer across the house or across the world has never been easier. Apps make the process simple and painless, enabling you to watch movies on your smartphone when you're out, or listen to music from your desktop in your upstairs bedroom. Here are five of the best, based on your nominations.
Plex released two big updates today: the latest version of Plex for iOS adds an automatic media synchronisation feature for offline playback, and the new version of Plex Media Server gives all users access to their web player.
Windows/Mac/Linux: Opera's out with a 10.10 final release, and this one includes the Opera Unite personal media server we've previously toured in beta. A few other features, like built-in BitTorrent, make Opera 10.10 worth a look.
VortexBox is an open-source CD ripping and media server solution. Based on Fedora 10, VortexBox is capable of streaming in multiple formats allowing you to hear your music on your other computers, iTunes, media centres, slim devices like squeezeboxes and other media devices. Installation is straight forward, download the ISO file, burn it to a disc, pop the disc in the unused computer you want to turn into a jukebox and you're on your way. Once the installation is complete you can access the box remotely with the build in web server. Ripping is completely automated, just pop in the disk you want it to rip and it rips, tags, and gets the cover art. VortexBox is an open-source Linux-based media server. VortexBox
