Kodi

To say that Kodi is a media player would be a huge understatement. You can think of it as a miniature, multimedia-focused operating system. It allows you to organize music, videos, pictures and programs in a comfortable and elegant manner. Also, the software includes a vast range of useful utilities. In other words, Kodi offers a complete solution for any kind of media.

The software used to be known as XBMC. It is available completely free of charge, for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Installing Kodi may take a minute or two, but you won't have to make any complex settings and you don't need to meet any special requirements.

Kodi comes with a full-screen user interface. When launched, the program will greet you with a home screen, from where you can access your photo, video and audio libraries, as well as your installed programs, a disc player and the general settings menu. Operating this program is a comfortable and pleasant experience. All buttons are large and easy to spot, which allows you to navigate from one section to another without any effort.

The picture, music, video and programs sections are essentially file managers, in which you have to import your files, through standard browsing options. While browsing through your files, you can switch between different view modes, such as list, thumbnails and so on and you can also right click files to bring up additional options.

The software is not limited to managing media files and programs. It allows you to download and install a wide range of plug-ins. You can find different plug-ins for each type of media, in each section of the interface. Installing the application can be done with nothing more than one click and it takes only a few seconds to complete the process.