This last point is crucial if you're planning to use Kodi on a touchscreen device, as the default Kodi skin is less than ideal on tablets and smartphones. With Kodi, you're able to download and change skins, including ones specifically designed for mobile devices. That's another advantage Kodi has over Plex - customization. Kodi recognizes pretty much any file type, so you can throw all your videos, photos and music in there and Kodi will handle it. Kodi also allows you to stream media from any networked PC, though you'll need to be a bit tech savvy to set that up for yourself.

Adding local media sources in Kodi is a breeze, whether you're storing your files on the internal storage of your device, an external hard drive connected to your computer, or a SD card inserted in your smartphone or tablet. Once installed, the easiest way to manage media with Kodi is to make it accessible locally on the machine.

Either an application/media player which can use a media renderer as output device or an app which redirects all audio output to such a device.You can download the Kodi client for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS (jailbroken) and even Raspberry Pi. I select the track/playlist I want to listen to, right click select 'Play on' (maybe not the exact wording as my Windows is German) and select one of the two devices (e.g. On Windows, I can use Windows Media Player to play audio on either device without having to touch any remote control. For example I can use my phone to display photos on the TV (e.g. However the TV and the receiver also act as UPNP/DLNA media renderer. So far this setup works fine and i can browse through my audio on the receiver. I can access audio from both computers using a DLNA-server software on either computer (built in DLNA-server on Windows, PS3Media Server on OSX). I have a TV and an AV-receiver which are DLNA-capable and which are attached to my home network together with a Windows 7 desktop and a MBP running OSX Lion.

Add a upnp player to kodi