CMC is also a lot easier to install and maintain than WMC. CMC works with all versions of Windows from Win7 through Win11. I wanted a solution that worked with all versions of Windows so that I didn't have to try and maintain an old Windows 7 WMC install anymore. While I used to charge a per PC license fee to use CMC, I've decided to make CMC free for everyone, and instead accept voluntary donations to support continued development. So far, I've contributed well over 5,000 hours of programming time, plus spent thousands of more hours supporting CMC users. Over the past 5 years, CMC has grown by leaps and bounds, adding features requested by users, adding tons of new functionality, improving performance, and fixing bugs. In the beginning, CMC worked well enough for me to browse my collection and playback movies, so I decided to share it with the community. You still use My Movies to manage your collection, while CMC provides a new front-end for browsing your collection and playing media. CMC is a replacement for WMC that integrates with your existing My Movies collection. I started writing CMC over 5 years ago as a personal workaround to WMC support being dropped.

For those looking for an alternative to Windows Media Center for My Movies, I'm happy to announce that Chameleon MediaCenter v5.0 is now available, and for the first time ever CMC is completely free to use.

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