Poddy Home 0.7 Beta

Poddy Home is a multimedia application that can replace:
- your CD player
- your DVD player
- all your CDs
- all your DVDs
- your collection of videos stored somewhere on your computer
so that you are able to save very much space at home, just by replacing all these things with a box that uses a harddisk big enough to keep all the data (this should not be a problem with todays harddisks capacities).
Poddy Home gives you easy, fast and intuitive access to your CD and DVD data without the need to search for the disc itself.
The procedure of replacing your CDs and DVDs is simple: you have to put them into your drive and let the Poddy Home application to copy the data on your harddisk. 
Now you can put your disc into your cellar and are able to access it by using Poddy Home easily.

Main features:
- can be fully controlled by IR remote control
- lossless storage and compression of CD and DVD data
- automated retrieval of media information from the internet (including title and tracks)
- automated retrieval of cover image from the internet
- designed to be controlled via remote control easily, no mouse or keyboard is necessary
- user interface optimized to be displayed on 4:3 or 16:9 TV
- shuffle replaying of your stored CDs - shuffling using one single album, using all albums onf one artist, using all stored CDs
- normal replaying of your stored CDs - using one single album, all albums onf one artist, using all stored CDs
- replaying of CDs that belong to specific categories (can be sorted by genre, owner, how often they have been listened,...)

System requirements:
- Java