

This article lists the top open source media server software, providing a one-stop guide to choose the best of the best based on individual requirements and media management capabilities. A computer system operational in the network to store and download all sorts of files from the Internet.Hardware that can store music, images and videos for accessing via Wi-Fi points on smartphones, smart TVs or any handheld device.For sharing files and managing playlists, media servers use DAAP or Windows Media Connect protocols. For file discovery, a media server typically uses the Bonjour or UPnP protocols. Software that enables the availability of audio, video or any other multimedia files on the network.It was still used on the Media Server browser interface until early August of the same year. Plex began as a freeware hobby project in December 2007 when developer Elan Feingold created a media center application for his Apple Mac. He ported the media player XBMC (since renamed Kodi) to Mac OS X. Around the same time, Cayce Ullman and Scott Olechowski-software executives who had recently sold their previous company to Cisco-were also looking to port XBMC to OS X, and noticed Feingold's progress via XBMC online forums. They contacted him and offered support and funding, forming a three-person team in January 2008. The team released early versions of the port, called OSXBMC, intended for eventual full integration into Mac OS X. The developers continued collaborating with the Linux-based XBMC project until May 21, 2008. Due to different goals and vision from the XBMC team, they soon forked the code to become Plex, and published it on GitHub. The OSXBMC code was kept roughly in sync with the upstream XBMC code. In December 2009, the US-based Plex, Inc.

was founded with Ullman as CEO and Feingold as CTO. At that time, Plex had 130 apps, the most popular of which were viewers for Apple Movies Trailers, YouTube, Hulu, Netflix, MTV Music Videos, BBC iPlayer, and Vimeo. Feingold declared Plex apps had been downloaded about one million times.
