OpenELEC!

* It's completely free! * A full install is only 90-125MB using only minimal hardware requirements * Simple installers & diskimages for HDD, SSD, Compact Flash, SD card, USB etc. * Now one generic build for Nvidia, AMD, Intel based on x64/x86-64 hardware * Separate builds for Raspberry Pi 1 and 2, and Apple TV (upto v4.2.1, now deprecated * Freescale iMX6 ARM builds for Cubox-i, CuboxTV and Hummingboard boxes * Simple configuration through the **Kodi** & **OpenELEC** interfaces

OpenELEC alternatives

  • OSMC

  • OSMC (Open Source Media Center) is a free and open source media player based on Linux and founded in 2014 that lets you play back media from your local network, attached storage and the Internet. OSMC is the leading media center in terms of feature set and community and is based on the Kodi project.

    tags: debian-based linux-operating-systems media-center music-player operating-system
  • LibreELEC

  • LibreELEC is ‘Just enough OS’ for Kodi, a Linux distribution built to run Kodi on current and popular mediacentre hardware. We are an evolution of the popular OpenELEC project. LibreELEC software will be familiar to OpenELEC users, but the project follows its own path and has intentional differences:

    tags: music-player movie-player multimedia openelec kodi
  • XBian

  • XBian is a small, fast and lightweight media centre distribution for the Raspberry Pi, CuBox-i, Hummingboard and many more devices to come. It is based on a minimal Debian and therefore offers much of the same freedom as Debian offers.

    tags: debian live-updating media-center raspberry-pi
  • VortexBox

  • VortexBox is a free, open source (GPL v3), quick-install ISO that turns your unused computer into an easy-to-use music server/jukebox. Once VortexBox has been loaded on an unused PC, it will automatically rip CDs to FLAC and MP3 files, ID3 tag the files , and download the cover art. Vortexbox will then serve the files to network media players such as Logitech Squeezebox, Sonos, or Linn. The music files can also be streamed to a Windows or Mac OSX system.

    tags: mp3 flac jukebox music-server squeezebox
  • GeeXboX

  • GeeXboX is a free and Open Source Media-Center purposed Linux distribution for embedded devices and desktop computers. GeeXboX is not an application, it’s a full-featured OS, that one can boot as a LiveCD, from a USB key, an SD/MMC card or install on its regular HDD. The GeeXboX distribution is lightweight and designed for one single goal: embed all major multimedia applications as to turn your computer into an HTPC. GeeXboX runs on x86, PowerPC and ARM devices.

    tags: jukebox live-cd media-center music-server
  • Enna

  • Enna is a Media Center application. Featuring a simple user interface, Enna is based on the powerful Enlightenment Foundations Libraries (EFL) as for its graphical user interface and GeeXboX libraries as for multimedia playback and information retrieval.

    tags: Discontinued dvd-player media-center music-player video-player
  • Daphile

  • The Daphile is the heart of a digital music system. Its primary focus is in storage and playback of your digital music library. It enables the best possible audio quality and future-proof flexibility by providing plug&play support for USB connected digital-to-analog converters (DAC). You can easily setup a multi-zone system just by connecting another USB DAC for each zone.

    tags: music-server headless squeezeplay open-source-squeezebox-server dsd