I turned a forgotten laptop into a full media server—no money, no pain.

Apple may not offer a dedicated media center, but the features its hardware and software provide can come pretty close. You can watch movies on a large-screen Mac such as a 24-inch iMac, connect a ...

Using a dedicated device like a Synology NAS drive to host your Plex media library offers a variety of advantages over using a Mac. In addition to being able to configure a large amount of storage at ...

Have you ever found yourself wishing for a way to organize and enjoy all of your favorite streaming content and personal media files in one convenient platform? While cloud storage services like ...

Video streaming is great -- until you lose access to the movie or TV show that you assumed would always be available on Netflix and Amazon Video. With downloads or physical media, this isn't an issue, ...

Eventually, if you have enough tracks, music player apps will struggle to handle them all. This one is nearly future-proof.

With the immense popularity of digital cameras, smartphones, and tablets for taking pictures and capturing video, and the wide availability of affordable digital music and movies, many people have ...

Song tags play a major role in Windows Media Player while sorting, displaying, and categorizing the music. That is because Windows Media Player does not read the file names of the songs, but it ...

Have you ever looked at your streaming device and wondered if there’s a better, more customizable option out there? Maybe you’re tired of being locked into a specific ecosystem or paying for features ...