Plex Media Server

Certain media types are played best on different devices. For example, watching a movie on a big screen TV is more comfortable than watching it on a laptop. Plex Media Server gives you the possibility of playing your media files on various devices. Thanks to its streaming, sharing and syncing capabilities, you won't have to connect any mobile devices to your Mac and spend time copying files from one side to the other.

Getting the server up and running is a trivial task. All you have to do is extract and run the application. It comes with a web-based user interface, which you can bring up at any time, on your default browser, by clicking an icon on the menu bar. The application allows you to create different collections, for music, pictures, movies or home videos, which doesn't require anything more than browsing for the appropriate folders.

Due to Plex Media Server's automatic sorting features, you will find your music organized by artist and album, TV shows by seasons and so on. What's more, the application will automatically search for cover images and it will assign them to your albums. Besides local media files, you can also import online video and music channels, like TED, SoundCloud and many others.

Plex Media Server is available for all major operating systems and mobile devices. This means that you can import and organize your media on a single computer and play them on a tablet, mobile phone, laptop, TV and other devices. What's more, Plex Media Server provides full support for DLNA, which means that you can stream your media files to gaming consoles. The application is capable of synchronizing the files directly to a mobile device, via Wi-Fi but it can also synchronize them to a cloud service, so you can play your favorite music and videos from anywhere in the world.