Try the next generation of UPnP/DLNA server and multimedia organizer software. It works with all DLNA-compatible devices. Easy to organize your files, easy to convert (when needed) and easy to stream to your device! Lots of cutting-edge features!
Starting with version 2.1, KooRaRoo Media DLNA software allows you to merge multiple disk folders into one playlist. This makes it easier to manage files and folders spread over several drives and you can combine local and network drives into one virtual location.
To use this feature, simply add a new disk folder and click the + button next to the folder name. This lets you add more folders. You can also just type them in separating folders using a pipe symbol: | , like this:
H:\Media|E:\My Files|F:\Downloads\Video
Just one more feature to make your media organizing easier! Enjoy your media with KooRaRoo Media!
KooRaRoo Media has a very powerful organizing feature called dynamic file lists. This feature lets you create smart playlists that are populated dynamically with files based on criteria that you combine in various ways. For example, you can create a playlist that contains songs with Genre "Rock" from 1980s and 1990s. You could further refine it to only include files that are stored on your D: and F: drives, but to exclude files from your E: drive. You could create several such playlists each starting with a certain song or artist letter, creating a rolodex-style structure.
Creating such playlists is easy using the graphical user interface, so feel free to explore and create!
The latest released v2.0 adds yet another criteria to give you even more power - it's called "not starts with" and allows you to create exclusion playlists. See some of the predefined playlists (available under the Add menu) to see how it works.
KooRaRoo Media DLNA software has on-the-fly transcoding that intelligently converts files that are incompatible with your device when you start to play them, thus allowing you to enjoy your media instead of thinking about file formats, codecs, streams, settings and all other technical stuff.
Some devices do not handle on-the-fly transcoding well due to limitations in their firmware. KooRaRoo always allowed you to pre-transcode such files by selecting them in the main view and using the Transcode dialog. This has now been improved in v2.0.0 with the new "Prepare Files for Device" dialog. This dialog, available under the Tools menu, will automatically find all incompatible files in your media library that have not been converted yet and you can then select and pre-transcode all or some of them. You can also set a schedule when such transcoding should be done by using Tools -> Options -> Transcoding settings. This allows you to run manual pre-transcoding during times when your computer is idle (when you sleep, for example), thus not using any CPU when you actually use your computer. One more feature to make your life easier! See other new features in v2.0 by visiting our online community.
In some cases you'll find that KooRaRoo server cannot read files from your NAS drive. This may mean that the server does not have necessary permissions to access your folders, because KooRaRoo server is a Windows service and these have less permissions than the GUI.
Well, KooRaRoo Media has been reduced in price to just $19.95 USD!
Your license still includes unlimited devices in your home and installation on all your PCs, if you want to. So, you are not restricted in any way. You still get the same quick and professional technical support too! What's the catch? There is none! Just enjoy KooRaRoo and spread the good word about it!
Use the new feature (starting from v1.9.0) of KooRaRoo Media that will show you that you've already watched a movie or listened to a song or saw a photo.
It's automatic to use and you can adjust what you see or disable it altogether.
When a file has already been played, you can see an asterisk (*) or a play counter (e.g. "2") in it's title. This can be turned off completely or change using Tools -> Options -> Server -> "Show play count on the device" setting.
Just another way KooRaRoo Media makes your DLNA experience better and easier. Enjoy! :)
Yes, time does go by very quickly and it's now one year since the first release of KooRaRoo Media was available to the general public for downloading and use. Beta versions were available before then for closed testing of course.
The latest version of KooRaRoo Media DLNA software allows you to access your media collection of videos, music and photos from anywhere in the world using just a Web browser.
To find out how, visit our forum and download the latest version of KRR to enjoy the new features!
In the latest version of KooRaRoo Media DLNA software, you'll find lots of new and great features. For example, KooRaRoo will now automatically download online metadata for video files in your choice of languages. This makes it much easier to organize your media collection and have nice looking posters as well as full movie information always available at your fingertips. Just one of the many ways KooRaRoo makes it easy for you to stream and organize your video, music and photo files on your home network.
Take a look at the following great video showing how KooRaRoo works on a new 2013 Panasonic TX-P42GT60B plasma TV. It has been created by one of KooRaRoo's users:
Yes, KooRaRoo now has a free version, so that you can enjoy using the best DLNA media server and organizer completely free!
It has less features than the paid version, but it's enough for everyday streaming if you are just starting out and want to try things out. Of course the paid version has a fully-functional no-obligations 30 days trial period too, so this gives you complete freedom over how you wish to try things out.
To see the difference between the versions, please see this features comparison page.
I hope you enjoy using either version of KooRaRoo and spread the good word about it, so that others benefit from the rich set of easy-to-use features that KooRaRoo has.
I am happy to say that a new version of KooRaRoo Media DLNA server has been released. It has many new features and also improvements and fixes as usual.
One of the new features is the ability to look up movie information in the IMDB database. This feature is still experimental, so you may experience timeouts at certain times, but actually the more you search, the faster and better it will become :) So, don't be shy - try it out! It's not the default setting yet, but hopefully it will get there in one of the next updates.
As usual, all comments, suggestions and questions are happily replied to via http://support.kooraroo.com and/or the online community.
KooRaRoo just keeps on giving you features to make your media streaming experience richer and easier.
One such feature is the ability to push files and whole playlists to supported DLNA devices (digital media renderers, or DMRs). This feature is also called "play to". If you have such a device (and very likely you do), then you'll appreciate the Remote Player feature of KooRaRoo Media.
Take a look at this video which shows the basics of using this feature to push files to a device:
Use KooRaRoo's powerful parental controls to specify which device receives what files or folders. It's very easy to use (as you'll see in the following video) and will give you complete peace of mind:
If you are not sure what they do, well, the following video is just for you!
Dynamic playlists are a very powerful and flexible way to organize your media collection. KooRaRoo allows you to create playlists that are populated automatically based on the criteria you choose. These criteria are matched to your file's metadata.
Gatti Audio has started creating and selling Silent PCs and I am happy to say that KooRaRoo Media will be part of that great media experience. A silent PC from Gatti Audio will allow you to store, transcode and stream all of your media - the build quality is excellent and the hardware specs are top notch. To top it off, KooRaRoo Media is pre-installed on the PC, so everything will work just out-of-the-box.
We have another great video by one of KooRaRoo's users - it shows how easy it is to use KooRaRoo to stream your files to devices on your network and also touches a bit on the rich set of features that KooRaRoo media organizer has.
The following video has been sent in by one of KooRaRoo's users and it shows how easy it is to use the burned-in subtitles feature. This allows him to watch his AVI files using external SRT subtitles on his Sony Bravia TV.
Starting with v1.5.0 KooRaRoo Media DLNA server will automatically download album artwork for your music files in case that artwork is not already part of the file's metadata and is not stored as an external file next to the music file.
You can also force it to update/change your existing artwork to the downloaded one.
Another way to use this is to retrieve movie artwork in form of DVD or BluRay images for your movies. You can use this instead of the automatic thumbnail that KooRaRoo generates from your movie.
Just another feature to make your life easier and allowing you to create better collections of your media files using KooRaRoo.
Most modern computers run a 64-bit version of Windows, so why use 32-bit software that does not run optimally on your latest-and-greatest CPU? KooRaRoo Media DLNA server now has a 64-bit build, which you can use on your OS to get the best possible performance. There are other new features in this version (1.5.0) such as ISO DVD images streaming and support for downloading music and video thumbnails from the Internet. See the release notes: http://forum.kooraroo.com/showthread.php/218-KooRaRoo-Media-v1-5-0-is-now-available and download a copy from http://www.kooraroo.com today!
With almost every update (which come out at regular intervals) KooRaRoo fine-tunes its support for more and more DLNA-compatible devices. Out-of-the-box, KooRaRoo will work with any DLNA device, but for the best experience it provides specific device definitions that fully describe a device.
If you have a device that doesn't yet have a specific device profile, please contact http://support.kooraroo.com and we'll create a profile for you!
As promised, KooRaRoo Media will now allow you to burn subtitles in your language and using a chosen font style, size and color, on top of the video if your device doesn't support streaming external (SRT, SMI, SUB) subtitles. This will allow you to watch foreign movies with ease and also learn a new language perhaps! The first version of KooRaRoo to support this is 1.4.0 - see this forum post regarding full release notes: http://forum.kooraroo.com/showthread.php/189-KooRaRoo-Media-v1-4-0-is-now-available
One feature that is often requested is the ability to burn external subtitles (such as SRT, SMI or SUB files) on top of the video to show these subtitles on devices that don't natively support external subtitles (or subtitles as embedded streams).
I am happy to say that initial development of this feature is complete and I'm looking for more testers to try it out.
If you are interested, please e-mail support (at) kooraroo (dot) com and I'll send you a copy of KooRaRoo to try it out.
