The Media Server is the heart of the Cardinal ecosystem, and powers all of your self-hosted apps.

Features

Get all Cardinal apps for free with Cardinal Media Server. Comes with a dashboard and everything needed to run your apps. No sign up required.

For audiophiles and casuals alike, with a set of features that long time music collectors will love.

Collect, curate, and rediscover your music every day with Cardinal Music's modern interface and powerful audio playback features.

Made to handle the era of camera ubiquity, and the lifetime of photographs that comes with it.

Archive a lifetime of photographs, and keep them safe from prying eyes. Only you can be trusted as the keeper of your photos and videos.

Embrace your inner projectionist and never worry about your favourite show leaving again.

Take back the future of movie and TV streaming in your home, and get that familiar online streaming experience for your own media.

Your Cardinal Account connects your self-hosted apps to Cardinal's cloud, enabling powerful free and paid features in your apps. Cloud accounts are also the social bridge between users, allowing people to share their personal media with each other.

Cardinal Accounts are free to create and use with your apps; and whether you are on the free plan or a paid one, your self-hosted apps will gain access to new features and benefit from enhancements to security.

Login with a Cardinal Account

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

Information on how Cloud Accounts integrate with your Media Server.

Use a Cardinal Account

Free

Starter

Gateway to the cloud for your self-hosted Cardinal apps.

Connect to your self-hosted Cardinal apps from anywhere in the world with Remote Access.

More info coming soon.

Share with Friends and Family

Securely share your media with your friends and family.

Information on how Remote Access integrates with your Media Server.

Set up Remote Access

Secure remote connectivity for your Cardinal apps.

Join the Popularity Data Pool to get music recommendations directly in Cardinal Music using data from the Pool. When you join, your Media Server will also contribute anonymous popularity data to the Pool.

More info here soon.

Coming soon for Cardinal Music, and later for Cardinal Cinema.

Information on how Popularity Pool Data integrates with your Media Server.

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