Entertainer – New Linux Based Media Center

It looks like the Media Center space just got a bit more crowded. With already tons of Windows based Media Center software available and only a handful of decent Linux based ones floating around, Entertainer plans to change all of that.

Unlike software like MythTV or Freevo, Entertainer is strictly a Media Center based application that has no DVR or PVR like functionality, essentially you can not record or pause live TV. What Entertainer has going for it is it’s slick UI and what seems to be incredible ease of use.

Features so far:

Video Playback: You can easily play a multitude of video formats right from your harddrive. Entertainer also crawls the internet for metadata on your video.

Music: Standard music play back functionality with playlists, search be genre, artists, etc. It will also go out and get the cover art and lyrics for you (I smell some Karaoke fun!)

Pictures: Look at the 100′s of thousands of pictures in your library (Oh Joy)

RSS: Read your RSS feeds (like tech.nocr.at) right from the couch.

Over all it seems like a nice clean packaging of what most computers can do already. What they should start doing is adding some PVR features so that they can give Freevo and MythTV a run for their money.

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