Supplemental tools/Windows
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Supplemental tools for XBMC running on Windows.
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1 Download managers
- CouchPotato
- Free download manager/searcher for NZB and torrents.
- Headphones
- Free auto-search/download manager for music files via NZB.
- Media Center Master
- A free metadata and media organization solution for Windows.
- Sick Beard
- Free application that searches/manages downloads, renames and organizes files, acts as a general media manager, and can integrate with XBMC easily. Sick Beard is written in Python, which means it can run on any platform that can run Python.
2 File servers
- Windows Media Connect
- Windows Media Connect is a free UPnP MediaServer for Windows.
3 File transfer and manager tools
- Cyberduck
- A free multi protocol file transfer application often used to access files on XBMC devices that don't have a normal desktop interface (such as the ATV1, ATV2, etc). Typically using SFTP as the main means of connecting to these devices.
- FileZilla
- A free multi protocol file transfer application often used to access files on XBMC devices that don't have a normal desktop interface (such as the ATV1, ATV2, Raspberry Pi, some Linux-based solutions, etc). Typically using SFTP as the main means of connecting to these devices.
- WinSCP
- A free SCP, SFTP, and FTP client for Windows.
- XBMC Media Move
- XBMC Media Move is a great tool designed to fill the gap between any download software (Ie: uTorrent) and XBMC Media Center by dispatching the files (video/music/photo/etc...) upon arrival.
4 Library managers
- Ember Media Manager
- Ember Media Manager is the all in one media manager for the popular XBMC. An open source media manager for Windows.
- Media Center Master
- A free metadata and media organization solution for Windows.
- Media Companion
- An open source media manager for Windows.
- MediaElch
- MediaElch is a free MediaManager for movies and tv shows. It supports generating of nfo files and also directly manipulating XBMCs database (SQLite and MySQL). Posters, thumbnails, screenshots and actor images will be stored along movies and tv shows (when using nfos) or directly in XMBCs thumbnail folder. Built with Qt MediaElch is available for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux.
- Sick Beard
- Free application that searches/manages downloads, renames and organizes files, acts as a general media manager, and can integrate with XBMC easily. Sick Beard is written in Python, which means it can run on any platform that can run Python.
- XBMC HTML Generator
- XBMC HTML Generator creates HTML Files of your TV Shows and Movies by fetching your Library Database, it also supports Anime Trailers and automatically downloads the posters of each Movie and TV Show. Its free and built via C# and only works on Windows and possibly on Linux with Wine.
- XBNE Video Database Editor
- A media management tool for movies and moviesets, with SQLite & MySQL database management for direct acces of XBMC database. Renames and organizes files. Passion-XBMC, TheMovieDB, ImDB Scrapers.
- tinyMediaManager
- tinyMediaManager is a media management tool for movies and moviesets, which is written in Java/Swing. It supports importing and exporting of NFO files, downloading of artwork and renaming of media files (along with the corresponding NFOs and artwork). Due to the fact that it is written in Java, tinyMediaManager will run on Windows, Linux and Mac OSX (and possible more OS).
5 Music tools
- Clementine
- Clementine is a free cross platform music player and library organizer.
- Headphones
- Free auto-search/download manager for music files via NZB.
- Mp3tag
- Mp3tag is a freeware music tagging editor for Windows.
- MusicBrainz Picard
- MusicBrainz Picard is a cross-platform (Linux/Mac OS X/Windows) application written in Python and is the official MusicBrainz tagger. MusicBrainz can use acoustic fingerprints to identify music and uses a community maintained database to correctly fill out song tags.
6 Remotes
- EventGhost
- EventGhost is a free, advanced, easy to use and extensible automation tool for MS Windows. It can use different input devices like infrared or wireless remote controls to trigger macros, that on their part control a computer and its attached hardware. It can be used to control a Media-PC with a normal consumer remote or controller, though the possible uses go much further than just that.
- Joy2Keys
- Joy2Keys is a freeware Windows application that converts joystick input into keyboard input.
- KeyMapEdit
- A free XBMC keyboard.xml editor for Windows.
- ShowKey
- Free, applet to display keystrokes.
- XBMC Boss
- XBMC Boss is a fully featured remote control and so much more, for Windows 8. Download a free trial from the Windows Store
- XBMCCustomregis
- Free, easy remote MCE setup tool.
- XBMC Remote
- XBMC Remote is a full featured media library browser and remote control for Windows 8 (Windows Store)
- Yatse 2
- Yatse 2 is a full featured remote and library browsing for Windows and Touch screens.
7 Rename tools
- Bulk Rename Utility
- Bulk Rename Utility is a free renaming tool for Windows.
- Ember Media Manager
- Ember Media Manager is the all in one media manager for the popular XBMC. An open source media manager for Windows.
- FileBot
- Tool for renaming media files so they are better scanned by XBMC scrapers (among other uses). Launched via Java Web Start, so no manual download or installation required.
- Flexible Renamer
- A free tool for renaming media files so they are better scanned by XBMC scrapers (among other uses). A little more complicated than TheRenamer, but has some more options.
- Media Center Master
- A free metadata and media organization solution for Windows.
- Media Companion
- An open source media manager for Windows.
- Sick Beard
- Free application that searches/manages downloads, renames and organizes files, acts as a general media manager, and can integrate with XBMC easily. Sick Beard is written in Python, which means it can run on any platform that can run Python.
- TV Rename
- Free application that automatically updates, renames, and organises your TV show files, using series and episode information from thetvdb.com.
- TheRenamer
- A free tool for renaming media files so they are better scanned by XBMC scrapers (among other uses) Drag and drop files to rename.
- XBMC Media Move
- XBMC Media Move is a great tool designed to fill the gap between any download software (Ie: uTorrent) and XBMC Media Center by dispatching the files (video/music/photo/etc...) upon arrival.
- tinyMediaManager
- tinyMediaManager is a media management tool for movies and moviesets, which is written in Java/Swing. It supports importing and exporting of NFO files, downloading of artwork and renaming of media files (along with the corresponding NFOs and artwork). Due to the fact that it is written in Java, tinyMediaManager will run on Windows, Linux and Mac OSX (and possible more OS).
8 Video encoders/rippers
- AnotherEAC3to GUI
- AnotherEAC3to GUI is a free GUI frontend for Windows for several MKV tools such as MKVToolNix. It's used to make direct 1:1 rips of Bluray and HDDVD discs.
- Cypheros TS-Doctor
- Cypheros TS-Doctor is a paid tool for dealing with transport stream files from digital TV recordings (SD and HD). It has several functions, such as checking and fixing the files for errors, converting them, removing commericals, and more.
- HandBrake
- HandBrake is a free, open source, cross-platform encoding and ripping tool for DVDs and other files. It comes with several easy to use presets and supports numerous features and options.
- MakeMKV
- MakeMKV is a free, cross-platform, DVD and Bluray ripping and MKV manipulating tool.
9 Other
- FocusBitch
- Free, a launcher that launches a process (XBMC) and maintains its foreground status.
- MKVToolNix
- MKVToolNix is a free, open source, cross platform suite of tools for MKV files. Tools include mkvmerge, mkvinfo, mkvextract, mkvpropedit, and mmg.
- MediaInfo
- An open source, cross platform tool for getting full codec info from media files.
- Monitor Asset Manager
- Free tool for checking HDMI EDID data from TV's and receivers and lists all supported modes.
- Subtitle Edit
- Subtitle Edit is a free, open source subtitle editor for Windows. Good for converting one subtitle format to another, among other things.
- XBMC Monitor
- Monitoring XBMC activity and filtering the results based on 6 severity levels defined by the wiki (debug, info, notice, warning, error and fatal).
