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Gerbera: open-source free media streaming server for home

PnP Media Server for 2022: Stream your digital media through your home network and consume it on all kinds of UPnP supporting devices

Hazem Abbas

28 May 2022 — 1 min read

Gerbera is a free UPnP media server which allows you to stream your digital media through your home network and consume it on a variety of UPnP compatible devices.

Features

Browse and playback your media via your network on all kinds of devices.
Web UI with a tree view of the database and the file system, allowing to add/remove/edit/browse your media
Metadata extraction from MP3, OGG, AAC, M4A, FLAC, wavpack, JPG (and many more!) files.
Media thumbnail support
Highly flexible media format transcoding via plugins / scripts
Automatic directory rescans (timed, inotify)
User defined server layout based on extracted metadata
Supports last.fm scrobbing
On the fly video thumbnail generation
Support for external URLs (create links to internet content and serve them via UPnP to your renderer)
Runs on Linux, BSD, Mac OS X, and more!
Runs on x86, ARM, MIPS, and more!

License

GPLv2

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