Who Shall Control My Media? Part 3 - Media Players
Media players are a interesting topic. Over the past couple of years, we’ve tried a variety of them. The first one was back in 2007 and was the D-Link MediaLounge DSM-520 that got its media from a UPNP Media server. It was designed to fit into a home entertainment unit, the typical ~19 inches wide and looked a lot like a DVD player or VCR. At the time it was great. There was no metadata, though, just a list of files. Select one and it usually played just fine. It was a good product and nothing else even came close to it.
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