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Welcome! We are excited to have you on board! 🎉
## New media player bar, local media...
## Media improvements
The media browser, has been renamed to: "Media". Nice, simple, and clean.
The media browser has been renamed to: "Media". Nice, simple, and clean.
And it now has an nice media bar in the button to control the media you
And, it now has a nice media bar in the bottom to control the media you
are playing:
<p class='img'>
<img class="no-shadow" src='https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/18730868/151005663-fd93a8f5-d516-4b35-b03a-bf0bd5e109a1.png' alt='Screenshot from GitHub PR, needs to be replaced'>
Screenshot from GitHub PR, needs to be replaced
</p>
<img class="no-shadow" src='/images/blog/2022-02/media-bar.png' alt='Screenshot showing media with the new media bar'>
</div>
Sonos, VLC (via Telnet) and Roku now support playing local media.
And Sonos can now even browse other supported media. For example, if you have
set up the Spotify and Sonos integration, you can now browse your Spotify to
play it on your Sonos devices. Cast also has support for Plex in the media browser.
The experience of browsing the media has been improved and extended with
new capabilities. An integration can now browse media of supported
sources provided by other integrations.
For example, if you have set up the Spotify and Sonos integration, you can now
browse your Spotify to play it on your Sonos devices; and Cast now has support
for playing Plex media straight from the browser.
Sonos, VLC (via Telnet), and Roku added support for playing local media! Combing
this with the VLC add-on can turn your Home Assistant device into a
media player for your local media. In the video below, Zack will demonstrate how
that works:
<div class='videoWrapper'>
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/oq3gek41_-I" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
</div>
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