Windows only: If you use Windows Media Center to manage your movies, TV shows, and music, then you need to grab Media Browser, an open-source plug-in . Skip to Main Content.

Open Windows Explorer, and navigate to C:\Windows\ehome. ... The fix adds three more channels to Windows Media Center's program guide, letting you view up to 10 channels at a time.

And, sure enough, if you’ve installed the new Windows 8 Release Preview, you’ve no doubt discovered that Microsoft’s awesome, endlessly underrated media-center software is nowhere to be found.

Media Browser is a free media aggregator plugin for Media Center that takes your recorded, digital, or ripped media and presents it in a simple, easy to use interface.