Download MediaPortal 0.2.3.0 RC3

Last Tuesday, the developers behind Media Portal released their third and hopefully final release candidate of version 0.2.3.0. With Media Portal, a Windows XP machine can be used as the heart of the multimedia hardware in the living room. This makes it easy to listen to radio and music, watch videos and DVDs and record TV programs. Through plugins and extensions functionality can be extended and the look & feel of the program can be adjusted. The release notes of this version have the following to say about this release:

MediaPortal 0.2.3.0 RC3 released!

Here it is! The (hopefully) last Release Candidate on our road to your ultimate HTPC experience – grab MediaPortal 0.2.3.0 RC3 while it’s hot! Recently some bigger code changes were needed to get rid of limitations we couldn’t bear any longer. Therefore we decided to throw out another Pre-Release.

One of the fundamental changes is our switch to NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System). NSIS gives us more flexibility creating advanced installers which will allow a lot of customization. With the RC3 release we mainly want to make sure that this new installer is working nicely.

Further changes have been done mainly to the music section which database is almost a complete rewrite. Inspired by MeediOS we simplified the database layout but also improved its performance. And when you’re done with scanning your music shares you might enjoy the new grabber for artist images and album covers which has been added to the audioscrobbler plugin.

We are already curious about your experience. If your feedback is mostly positive then the MediaPortal 0.2.3.0 final version will be released quite soon.[break]