Cardinal Media Server

Rethink how you manage, stream, and share your media.

A quick overview of your server, apps, and active users.

Watch indexing progress across your libraries in real time.

Track background jobs like thumbnail generation and waveform extraction.

Browse your media folders and choose exactly what to include in a library.

Manage local and cloud accounts from one place.

Fine-grained roles and capabilities control what each user can do.

Customize colors, glass effects, and spacing to match your style.

Includes a powerful web dashboard for operating your Media Server.

Login with a cloud account to use Cardinal's cloud authentication, alleviating your Media Server of credential management duties.

Local accounts allow you to access your Media Server's offline features.

Includes a Role-Based Access Control layer so you can control exactly what your users can access.

Index your music, photos, movie, and TV files without having to change your folder structure.

Create libraries on the fly, and browse your media in slices that are more meaningful to you.

Audit, fork, update, and redistribute the source code for the self-hosted apps under the Freehold license.

Ships with an open, documented API that your own apps can integrate with.

Docker

Run Cardinal Media Server on a wide range of systems with Docker.

Official guides, tutorials, docs, and FAQ for operating your Media Server.