Nexosapublic beta
A ten-foot media center for Windows, Linux and Android. Install it and the films, music and pictures already on that device are there. Put the server on the PC where your library lives, and every screen in the house can reach it, including ones with nothing installed at all: a browser, or a television box.
Free, and no account unless you add a server.
Download
Every file comes from the project's own download host, and each release carries a SHA-256 digest so you can check what you got. Desktop 0.17.0, Android 0.17.1.
You need one of these once, on the machine that holds your library. After that, anything else in the house can open the server's own address in a browser instead, and a television running Kodi, the free media centre software, can install a free add-on from the same address.
This is a public beta: everything here works and updates itself, and it is still being polished. One thing is coming before it is called 1.0: installers signed so Windows stops warning about them. The server is already one file to run with nothing to install first.
Found a problem? Write to victorguminski3@gmail.com with what you did and what happened. The desktop app keeps a log you can attach: under Tasks, about, "Found a problem in the beta?" opens its folder.
Desktop and laptop
Windows 10 or later, 64-bit
Nexosa-Media-Center-Setup-0.17.0.exe
Apple Silicon and Intel
Debian and Ubuntu, amd64
nexosa-media-center_0.17.0_amd64.deb
sudo apt install ./nexosa-media-center_0.17.0_amd64.deb
Phone and tablet
Phone or tablet
nexosa-mobile-0.17.1.apk
iPhone and iPad
One file each, and running it is all there is to it. Nothing to unpack, nothing added to your programs list, and deleting the file is the uninstall. On Linux, mark it executable first, and install VLC for the formats a browser will not play: sudo apt install vlc.
Runs on the PC where your films and music live, on Windows or Linux, and streams them to every Nexosa screen. Nothing in the library is uploaded by Nexosa. Server 0.12.2. One file to download and run, with nothing to install first; run it once and it says where its settings live.
Already have Node 22 or newer and would rather run it that way? The same server as a zip: nexosa-server-win-x64.zip or nexosa-server-linux-x64.zip. On Linux, mark the one file executable first: chmod +x nexosa-server-linux-x64.
By downloading or using Nexosa, you agree to the Terms of Service and acknowledge the Privacy Policy. Read both before installing or creating an account.
The look
Black stone, a blue light in it, and every screen lit by its own pictures. Every movement is light and transform, and all of it stops when your system asks for reduced motion.
Open a film and its poster is blown up and blurred into light behind the page. Move along a shelf and the room takes the colour of whatever is under the cursor.
The bar shows what is already buffered behind what has played. Behind a record the sleeve rises and falls over its own reflection, and the room is lit by it.
On the phone the poster slides at half the speed of the words as you scroll and stretches when the page is pulled down. Same films, same colours, same resume point.
What it does
Not a store, not a streaming service, and your films, music and pictures never leave your own machines.
Big light type, a category rail, a tile strip, and a focus frame you can see from across the room. Arrow keys, a remote or a mouse all drive it, and every press has a sound if you want one. Blue or green, your choice.
Press the heart on a film, a record or a photograph and it lands on one shelf, on your account rather than on the device that pressed it. A heart pressed on the phone is already filled in on the TV, and the Favorites screen on both is the same list of films, music and pictures together.
On first run the app asks whether to show the films and music already on that PC or phone, and on a PC the pictures too. Say yes and they are there; say no and it never asks again. Nothing is copied or uploaded, and the switch stays in Settings.
Run the server on the PC where your collection lives and every screen streams from it over your own network. Playback is VLC's engine on every platform, so MKV, MP4, FLAC and MP3 all play the same on the TV and on the phone.
Each person signs in to their household server and gets their own resume points, watched marks and favorites, kept apart on the server. Terms and privacy notice are readable on the sign-up form itself, and deleting your account is a button, not an email.
A corner card says when a newer version exists: the app asks your server, then the project's releases on GitHub, and a switch in Settings turns that check off. On Windows and portable installs one press downloads it, checks the file against the digest the release published, and applies it the next time you close Nexosa. Settings and profiles are kept.
How it fits together
The server reads your folders and keeps an index. The screens ask that server what is there and stream it straight from your machine to your own screens. Nothing is uploaded anywhere. Only the first of those screens has to be installed: once the server is running, the rest of the house can reach it with a browser, or through a television box.
On the PC with your files
Indexes your folders into a small database, probes each file for what it really is, and serves the library over your network. Windows or Linux. Who it serves is the operator's decision, and most serve one household.
Windows and Linux
The ten-foot screen. Full screen on a TV, a window on a laptop.
Android
The same library, touch-first. An unfinished film resumes where you left it, on any screen.
Nothing to install
The server hands out a client of its own. Open its address on any machine in the house and the library is there, with no app to download first.
Through Kodi
Kodi is free media centre software that runs on most television boxes and small computers. A free Nexosa add-on, installed from the server itself, puts the same library inside it. Where you got to is kept on the server, so a film started on a laptop carries on there.
On the PC by the TV, on a laptop, on the phone. Open it and it works before anything else is set up.
The app asks once. The films and music already on that device show up alongside everything else.
Only for a library that lives on another machine. Run the server there, point the apps at its address, and create your profile on it. Whoever runs the server decides whose profiles it serves, and a household's films and music may only be shared inside that household.
