Media Browser for Windows Media Center - Part 1


Media Browser is a free plugin which enhances the media center experience. It simply the best tool to present the media such as movies, musical concerts and TV shows in windows media center. It also has an elegant and easy looking interface. If someone is using windows 7 media center to watch movies and TV shows, this is the best tool to get the maximum experience from a media center. The software adds features such as automatic metadata retrieval, ability to add trailers, podcast/vodcast via RSS and lots of other features. And it also supports the external players. You can download it by clicking here.

When you installed media browser for the first time it is necessary to configure it.
One of the coolest things this tool has is ability to create virtual folders. So if you have movies stored on multiple locations of your computer of server you can put all of them in a single virtual folder. Another interest thing is it allows using a custom icon for those virtual folders.

We can add custom plugins and themes to media browser by simply clicking “add.” There are several other plugins you can add which doesn’t come with the media browser. In order to add a custom plugin you have to add the source which contains the plugin or theme. Therefore, click add-->file-->sources-->add and paste the URL and close it. Here I have pointed out some of the sources to the plugins.
http://www.mediabrowser.tv/plugins/plugin_info.xml
http://www.ebrsoft.com/software/mb//plugins/plugin_info.xml
http://www.throgosoft.com/plugins/plugin_info.xml
http://www.creaigthomas.co.za/plugins/plugin_info.xml

Apart from them, there are more options to configure. However, after finishing this step, you can start media center and start media browser. Then it asks to go through a quick setup.




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