Front Row Alternatives
Front Row is described as 'is media center software for Apple's Macintosh computers and Apple TV with a 10-foot user interface design for the living-room TV for viewing and downloading video, photos, podcasts, and music from a computer, optical disk, networks using iTunes or iPhoto, and the' and is an app in the Video & Movies category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Front Row for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Mac, iPhone and Apple TV. The best alternative is Kodi, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Front Row are Plex (Freemium), Emby (Freemium), Miro (Free, Open Source) and OpenELEC (Free, Open Source).
- Kodi, formerly XBMC, is a free and open source media player and entertainment center for Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, XBox, and iOS.
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- BSD
- iPad
- Raspberry Pi
- Fire TV
- Plex bridges the gap between your computer and your home theater, doing so with a visually appealing user interface that provides instant access to your media. Plex can play a wide range of video, audio and photo formats as well as online streaming audio and video.
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- iPhone
- Chrome OS
- Windows S
- Android Tablet
- Windows Phone
- iPad
- Apple TV
- Daydream
- Kindle Fire
- Android TV
- Kodi
- Roku
- Emby, formerly Media Browser, is a media aggregator plugin for Media Center that takes your recorded, digital, or ripped media and presents it in a simple, easy to use interface. Emby prides itself on delivering a fast, intuitive, media rich experience for the whole family.
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- BSD
- Windows Phone
- iPad
- Self-Hosted
- Apple TV
- Kindle Fire
- Roku
- Cloudron
- Playstation
- Xbox
- Miro (formerly Democracy Player) is a free and open source internet TV application, media library, and video player.
Discontinued
No updates since 2013. Youtube intergration broken because of no updates since youtube API changed. See changelog: http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/pculture.org/Miro/
- Open Embedded Linux Entertainment Center (OpenELEC) is a small Linux based Just Enough Operating System (JeOS) built from scratch as a platform to turn your computer into a Kodi (previously XBMC) media center.
- Free • Open Source
- Linux
- Raspberry Pi
- Moovida is transforming the way consumers experience digital entertainment media.
Discontinued
The official website is no longer available. Last version, 2.1.1, released in October 2011, can be still downloaded from Wayback Machine.
- MythTV is a free, open source media center and digital video recorder (DVR) distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL.
- Use your Mac as optimal media center!
- Paid • Proprietary
- Mac
- Apple TV
- 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.
Discontinued
The project seems to be no longer developed. Last version, v0.4.0, released in February 2010, can be still downloaded from the official website.
- Kroozbox is a database to HTML gateway written in Java that can run under Windows or Linux.