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.

Information on how Cloud Accounts integrate with your Media Server.

Use a Cardinal Account

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.

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.

Join the Popularity Data Pool

##### ⚠️ Breaking changes:

You will need to start with a new database instance. Run `docker compose down -v` before updating to remove your current database and cache.

##### New:

- Added the [Libraries](https://help.cardinalapps.io/guides/cardinal-home-server/libraries) page to the Dashboard for music.
- Jobs now run concurrently.
- Added new environment variables:
  - `POSTGRES_HOST`
  - `POSTGRES_PORT`
  - `MAX_CONCURRENT_JOBS`

##### Updated:

- Updated login screen layout.
- Updated layout of the Advanced tab in the Dashboard settings.
- Removed GraphQL and moved the four GraphQL endpoints to the REST API.
- The EventSource endpoint now requires an auth token.
- Optimized indexing update stream to the clients.
- Optimized out most of the preparation phase of jobs.
- These environment variables have changed:
  - `LOG_HTTP` is now `HTTP_LOG_LEVEL`
  - `LOG_EVENTS` is now `EVENTS_LOG_LEVEL`
  - `DEBUG_INDEXING` is now `INDEXING_LOG_LEVEL`
  - `DEBUG_JOBS` is now `JOBS_LOG_LEVEL`
- Added logging levels.

##### Fixed:

- Various uncaught errors that could arise during indexing.

Release notes forCardinal Media Server v0.3.0

⚠️ Breaking changes:

New:

Updated:

Fixed: