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Organize and experience all your media: Music, photos and video YOUR way -- all from a single software program.

Connect your PC to your home entertainment hardware and control it all with a remote! Load your music on your iPod while you watch TV! All with one easy-to-use program -- MEDIA CENTER!

Make your media part of your digital lifestyle

Copy music from MEDIA CENTER to a portable digital audio player or move digital camera photos into MC's powerful image library. Make a CD of music for your car. Record your favorite shows and watch them on your TV. More than one soundcard? Play different music simultaneously in different rooms. MC's Media Server can even stream your music to your PC at work!

Organize your images

The main image screen, showing thumbnails of digital camera images. An optional properties page can be opened to show details about each image.

Theater View
A unique full screen mode. This customizable view is designed for browsing your media on a monitor or TV from across the room. Type is enlarged and navigation is simplified for easy use with a remote device. Mobilize your tunes

MC supports more hardware players than any other application. Now you can synchronize your library with your Apple iPod or one of many supported devices

Features:

Supports over 80 media file formats
Create custom Playlists and Smartlists from your media library
Rips and encodes to WMA, OGG, APE, MP3, FLAC and more
CD and DVD data burning
Support for popular MP3 devices, including iPod®, Creative® and SanDisk® players
Leading edge organization and customization options
Selectable skins and Slim View with cool translucent effect
Search, download and play rich content from Google Video/Images, YouTube and SHOUTcast - all without leaving the application
Support for PlaysForSure devices and music subscription services
Unique Action Window for a quick route to tasks such as burn, tag or handheld sync.
Theater View fullscreen mode for the 10-foot interface experience. Browse media on your TV
Media Mode buttons for fast access to media type: music, photos, videos
Integrated CD labeler for printing custom labels and covers
Podcast support, including one click subscriptions
MyGal photo gallery feature. Create, upload and share photo albums on the web - for free!
Powerful, flexible burning engine - multiple burns, split large files across discs
Fast and efficient file tagging system
Automatic folder monitoring and import of newly added files
Mouse wheel zooming and panning for pictures, video, DVD and TV
Customizable View schemes -- Best file organization of any jukebox
Freeform Mini View skins
Support for Standard View skins
Support for Winamp 2 skins
40+ visualizations, and support for White Cap and the latest G-Force visualizations
New Display View mode
Remote control support
Cross-fading and gapless playback
Media Server -- Home networking
Replay Gain (volume leveling)
In-line file property editing
Plug-in support, including third-party plug-ins
Web TV and radio
Find CD retailer search
Online Artist info search
Visualization Studio - create and save your own visualizations
Media Scheduler
Integrated Download Manager
DSP/EQ Studio
Media Editor for editing sound files
Broadcast and cable TV (with tuner card)
DVD playback and recording
Digital image organization and tagging
3D visualizations
Flexible database that allows unlimited new fields to be added
Cover View -- shows album art/image for each track or CD or DVD
TV recording and instant-replay, Pause, Resume, FFWD, REW
Pane View and Tag mode for the easy selection and tagging of files
Integrated music/image slideshow
Preset Smartlists -- 1 hour of random music, Last 100 tracks played, etc.
ASIO Playback
Multi-Zone Playback
Web or FTP upload of media files
TiVo Home Media Option support for music and images. Enjoy your Playlists through TiVo
Support for Universal Plug 'n' Play devices e.g. Media streamers
Document support with full text searching/indexing
Basic image editing
Multi-Zone Synchronization
Split View feature - Open Library and Playing Now windows together
Integrated support for Audible™ audiobook store
File transfer support for Sony PlayStation Portable™