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Boxee is a great way to experience internet content on your television or PC. The company has just recently announced that they were able to raise an additional $6 million in financing, which means they can continue to build a better platform. In the next few months you can expect to see improvements to the product, more content, and Boxee on more devices.
As it stands, however, Boxee is already chock full of entertainment in the form of applications. Boxee applications aren't really applications in the way most of us understand applications. Instead they're more like glossy windows that developers have built to bring the best internet content to our television sets and monitors. With Boxee applications you can watch your favorite web TV shows, listen to streaming music, browse your online photos, and see the web in a whole new light.
If you're just getting started with Boxee, or are a tried-and-true veteran, then chances are you're interested in learning about the best that the application has to offer. So we've taken the best of Boxee and bundled it up into this blog post for your convenience. Keep reading to learn about remarkable ways to engage with online photos, videos, and music via the best apps in those categories.
Boxee Apps: A Quick Tutorial
If you're using Boxee and you haven't discovered the applications, then you're missing out on the full Boxee experience. Here's how to get started. When you launch and login to Boxee, select the 'Menu' option on the left. A new pane will open up with the following options: Applications, Local Media, Browse, Downloads, and App Box.
If you're in the mood to discover applications, select App Box. That's where you can browse around for apps that strike your fancy. To add an app to your personal Boxee application dashboard, just select it and click ok. You can also remove apps in this area as well. Select 'My Applications' at the top, and click on the app you'd like to remove.
Now, if you're looking to actually enjoy the apps you've added, navigate back to the left-hand menu and select Applications. Here you can choose All, Photos, Video, or Music to view your saved apps.
Best Music App: Pandora
Pandora holds a special place in most of our hearts as a remarkable way to discover and listen to music online. We've spent years using their music discovery engine to mastermind the greatest stations to help us beat the work day blues or auto-DJ our social gatherings.
With the Pandora app for Boxee, you can log into your account and experience everything you love about streaming music from the shiny entertainment dashboard. The app is visually very impressive, feature-rich, and pretty easy to manipulate. You'll find your saved stations on the right-hand side, which you can close and open, and a history of your streamed music is clearly highlighted across your screen. You can still create stations and bookmark songs or artists as usual.
Of course, the most important part of a music app for Boxee is the online streaming quality. Quality will always depend on your internet connection, with or without Boxee as your gateway to great music, but the good news is that the Pandora experience is only heightened on your television, with no performance issues that can be attributed to Boxee.
Best Photo App: Facebook Photos
If you have an Apple TV, you've probably already come to appreciate the magic of having your photos on the big screen. Boxee, however, brings a new social layer to the experience, as the application has inspired a number of third-party developers to create Boxee photo apps for your favorite social networks.
One such developer, Junda Liu, has built a Facebook Photos app that gives you the ability to use Facebook Connect to connect Boxee to your Facebook account. You can view your Facebook photos, friends' albums, and recently added photos in larger-than-life form. The app creates a rich photo experience that is really quite marvelous, especially when compared to Facebook's standard presentation of photos and albums.
If Facebook isn't your photo site of choice, there's always the Flickr and Picasa apps for Boxee, which are also quite nice.
Best Cable TV App: CNN
If you expect quality picture and a great, dynamic selection, than the CNN app will not disappoint. Once you launch the app, you can use the left-hand menu to browse top stories, most popular, staff picks, or peruse through categories like tech and business with the by section option.
The CNN app is perfect if you've canceled cable and still want access to the network's news stories, or if you've missed the day's news and just want to catch up on your own time. Either way the CNN app is a great way to experience news stories via Boxee.
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Best Web TV App: Pure Pwnage
Though this hit web series will soon find its way on your television (in Canada that is), one of Boxee's most prolific application developers, Rob Spectre, has turned the series into a nifty Boxee app. So, you can watch the made-for-the-web series in all its glory on your television right now.
Best Custom App: Make Your Own
Here's the best part of Boxee. If there's online music, photos, or videos that you can't find in the available apps (though most of them have you covered), you can use My Feeds to create your own RSS-based content app. This comes in handy if you want a quick way to access and keep up with specific podcasts and vlogs.
Adding the web shows you want to follow is really pretty simple. First things first, find the RSS feed for the music, video, or photo content you'd like to add. Then, in Boxee, navigate to the Apps Box section and click on My Feeds at the top. There you can input the feed, designate the appropriate content, and add it so that's a part of your application repository.
Honorable Mention: We Are Hunted
We Are Hunted is a fantastic way to discover new music. They scour the web for the 99 most popular songs every day, divvy them into a few different categories — like a Twitter chart — and then you can click to enjoy new music. We're totally in love with the website, but now we're even more enamored with the Boxee app.
Add We Are Hunted to find and discover popular tracks for a completely unique music listening experience on your television set. Play this app at your next party, and it just might be the greatest way to add a little spice to your mixer.
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Several people have been working on cloning the boxee.tv servers since they were taken down, in an effort to restore functionality to everyone's Boxee Boxes. Happy to say that as of today there are multiple implementations out there, and that my public hosted version of this is online and available to use.
Quick rundown:
- /u/cigamit has had a working implementation of this for years. He was kind enough to share his code, which enabled me to build out my simple version of a cloned server. His project is aiming to be a full featured boxee.tv replacement. This project isn't public yet, and i'm not sure if theres any plans to host a public server, but i'm sure when the codebase is in a better state, he'll share that work with us. Thanks!
- /u/st4rl has been working on an implementation of the cloned server and also a DNS server in one codebase. That code is live at https://gitlab.com/HazWard/boxee-server . I'm not 100% sure whether the project is tested and working, if they're around they can speak to it. But looks promising.
- My personal implementation is only meant to get the Boxee box in a working state again. It fixes the 'no internet connection' errors, gets login working (for any username and password) and gets the Netflix app loading again. I'll open source my code soon, but for now the server is live and able to be used by the public. Quick warning that i'm not considering this a 'production' server yet, as i'm sure i'll be tweaking things. And it's sitting on a very small instance type on AWS, so unsure what kind of traffic it can handle just yet. I'll know more as I get logging and metrics in.
The biggest barrier to using my public server is that you'll need to be running your own DNS server. I may spin up a quick DNS server for people to use, but I understand there's a lot of trust involved in using someone else's DNS server, so you may want to run your own. Personally, i'm running a raspberry-PI on my local network with https://pi-hole.net/ installed. Pi hole also enables you to run custom DNS entries by modifying the local hosts file on the server.
EDIT: I now have a public DNS server running at 18.211.111.89 that will route to my Boxee server.
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Once you have your own DNS server, you'll need to set these custom host entries. Most likely this will involve modifying your /etc/hosts file on your DNS server:
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