User guide

ICY BOX Mediaserver User Guide 7
Introduction
About ICY BOX Mediaserver
The ICY BOX Mediaserver is a secure Mediaserver that let you store, manage, share and
enjoy your digital media. You can collect and store content including personal photos,
music, videos and documents. ICY BOX Mediaserver can automatically back up your
precious data, saving it from loss. It is easy to drag and drop digital media to ICY BOX
Mediaserver, catalog it into folders, and share it by creating albums. ICY BOX
Mediaserver allows you to access your content through digital media players on your
home network, or from any computer in the world through the web. You can even
upload, download and view your content on a mobile handset.
Store
You can securely store digital media in one place: your ICY BOX Mediaserver. ICY
BOX Mediaserver allows you to upload content locally from a computer on the home
network, or remotely access across the Internet. For example, it allows you to upload
photos while you're on the road or on vacation.
You can back up the PCs and Macs on your home network to the ICY BOX Mediaserver.
Vista Backup and Time Machine can use the ICY BOX Mediaserver as the backup disk.
Backed up content is always available, even if the computer is turned off.
Manage
You can organize your digital media into shared FamilyLibrary folders or private
MyLibrary folders. After you upload a file, you can add a caption and tags to the file.
Later you can search for files that match the caption and tags.
Share
You can create albums to share your digital media with family on your home network
and friends across the Internet. You can even share selected content with the public,
while keeping private media secure. For example, you can put the latest baby pictures in
a shared album, and they will automatically appear in grandma's digital photo frame.
Enjoy
You can show digital media on computers and media players on your home network, and
remotely on computers across the Internet. The Mediaserver software, built into the ICY
BOX Mediaserver, makes content available to a wide variety of media players that
support the UPnP-AV, DLNA or Windows Media Connect standards. This way you can
view photos through an Xbox 360 or PS3 in the living room, while listening to music
through a networked sound system in the family room.