<h2 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px;">What is included in Nero Media Home?</h2>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><strong>Central media library</strong> – Archive photos, videos and music together.<br /><strong>AI Photo Tagger</strong> – Auto-tags photos locally, no cloud upload.<br /><strong>Universal playback</strong> – Plays DVD-Video, Blu-ray and most formats.<br /><strong>Create and burn</strong> – Build slideshows, burn video discs with menus.<br /><strong>Core Capacity</strong> – Streams to DLNA TVs, Xbox, PlayStation, phones.<br /><strong>Important</strong> – Windows only, with no macOS version.</p>
<h3 style="margin-top: 30px; margin-bottom: 10px;">What are the main benefits of Nero Media Home?</h3>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Nero Media Home is a Windows application that consolidates your photos, videos, music and films into one searchable library you can play and stream. It combines on-device AI photo tagging, wide-format playback and home-network streaming without sending your media to the cloud.<br /><br /><strong>One media hub</strong> – Ends scattered files across drives and phones.<br /><strong>Local AI tagging</strong> – Sorts photos by face and scene offline.<br /><strong>Play anything</strong> – Handles DVD-Video, Blu-ray and mixed formats.<br /><strong>Home streaming</strong> – Sends media to TV and consoles wirelessly.<br /><strong>Private by design</strong> – AI runs on your PC, not cloud.<br /><strong>Mobile sync</strong> – Moves phone photos and videos to PC.</p>
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<h3 style="margin-top: 30px; margin-bottom: 10px;">What does Nero Media Home do?</h3>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Nero Media Home is a Windows media center that archives, organizes, plays and streams your photos, videos, music and films from a single library. It imports files from PC folders, external drives, USB sticks and iOS or Android devices, and can pull in existing Windows Media Player and iTunes libraries. Its local Nero AI Photo Tagger classifies photos by face, scene and subject directly on your PC, so private images are never uploaded to the cloud. It also plays DVD-Video and Blu-ray discs and streams to DLNA TVs, Xbox and PlayStation over your home network.</p>
<h3 style="margin-top: 30px; margin-bottom: 10px;">Does Nero Media Home edit videos, or is that a separate program?</h3>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">No, Nero Media Home does not include a video editor; it focuses on organizing, playing and streaming media rather than cutting or exporting footage. For timeline editing, effects and disc authoring with menus you need Nero Video, which bundles Media Home as its media manager. Media Home itself offers only basic photo touch-ups such as filters and red-eye removal, plus slideshow creation and disc burning. If your main task is editing rather than management, Media Home alone will not cover it.</p>
<h3 style="margin-top: 30px; margin-bottom: 10px;">Can Nero Media Home transfer photos and videos between a phone and PC?</h3>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Yes, but only media files, and only between a mobile device and your PC, not directly from phone to phone. The free Nero MediaHome WiFi Sync app moves photos and videos wirelessly between iOS or Android devices and your library, while USB import handles external drives and memory sticks. It does not migrate app data such as WhatsApp chats or perform iOS-to-Android device transfers, which are jobs for dedicated phone-transfer tools. For pulling camera rolls into one PC archive, though, this covers the common case.</p>
<h3 style="margin-top: 30px; margin-bottom: 10px;">What is the difference between Nero Media Home and Nero Platinum Suite?</h3>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Nero Media Home is the single media-management and playback application, while Nero Platinum Suite 2026 bundles it with more than twenty tools, including Nero Video, Nero Burning ROM, Nero BackItUp, Nero Recode and several AI apps. Choose standalone Media Home if you only want to organize, play and stream an existing media library. Choose the suite if you also need video editing, dedicated disc burning, file backup or PC tuning in one package. Both run only on Windows and keep AI processing on your local PC.</p>
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<td style="border: 1px solid #ffffff; padding: 8px; text-align: left; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: middle;">Media library &amp; AI tagging</td>
<td style="border: 1px solid #ffffff; padding: 8px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="color: #32a852; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 800; line-height: 1; display: inline-block; transform: translateY(1px);">✓</span></td>
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<td style="border: 1px solid #ffffff; padding: 8px; text-align: left; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: middle;">Playback &amp; streaming</td>
<td style="border: 1px solid #ffffff; padding: 8px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="color: #32a852; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 800; line-height: 1; display: inline-block; transform: translateY(1px);">✓</span></td>
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<td style="border: 1px solid #ffffff; padding: 8px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="color: #32a852; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 800; line-height: 1; display: inline-block; transform: translateY(1px);">✓</span></td>
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<td style="border: 1px solid #ffffff; padding: 8px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="color: #d9534f; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 800; line-height: 1; display: inline-block; transform: translateY(1px);">✕</span></td>
<td style="border: 1px solid #ffffff; padding: 8px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="color: #32a852; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 800; line-height: 1; display: inline-block; transform: translateY(1px);">✓</span></td>
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<td style="border: 1px solid #ffffff; padding: 8px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="color: #d9534f; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 800; line-height: 1; display: inline-block; transform: translateY(1px);">✕</span></td>
<td style="border: 1px solid #ffffff; padding: 8px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="color: #32a852; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 800; line-height: 1; display: inline-block; transform: translateY(1px);">✓</span></td>
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<td style="border: 1px solid #ffffff; padding: 8px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="color: #d9534f; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 800; line-height: 1; display: inline-block; transform: translateY(1px);">✕</span></td>
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<td style="border: 1px solid #ffffff; padding: 8px; text-align: left; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: middle;">AI image upscaling</td>
<td style="border: 1px solid #ffffff; padding: 8px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="color: #d9534f; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 800; line-height: 1; display: inline-block; transform: translateY(1px);">✕</span></td>
<td style="border: 1px solid #ffffff; padding: 8px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="color: #32a852; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 800; line-height: 1; display: inline-block; transform: translateY(1px);">✓</span></td>
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<td style="border: 1px solid #ffffff; padding: 8px; text-align: center; vertical-align: middle;"><span style="color: #d9534f; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 800; line-height: 1; display: inline-block; transform: translateY(1px);">✕</span></td>
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<h3 style="margin-top: 30px; margin-bottom: 10px;">Which platforms and formats does Nero Media Home support?</h3>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Nero Media Home runs only on Windows and has no macOS version, so Mac users cannot use it. It plays a wide range of audio and video formats along with DVD-Video and Blu-ray discs, and reads common photo formats such as JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP and TIFF. For streaming it works with DLNA-compatible smart TVs, Xbox and PlayStation consoles, plus iOS and Android through the companion apps. The 2026 metadata and playlist import/export features (IPTC, m3u, m3u8, PLS, WPL) are available only with a subscription.</p>
<h3 style="margin-top: 30px; margin-bottom: 10px;">Frequently asked questions about Nero Media Home</h3>
<h3 style="margin-top: 30px; margin-bottom: 10px;">Is there a free trial of Nero Media Home?</h3>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Yes, Nero offers a 15-day trial of Media Home for testing. During the trial some codecs such as AVC are limited and disc burning is capped, and the trial can later be upgraded to the full version. This lets you check the import, tagging, streaming and burning workflows before you commit.</p>
<h3 style="margin-top: 30px; margin-bottom: 10px;">Does Nero Media Home require a subscription?</h3>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">No, the core Nero Media Home application is available as a one-time purchase; only the newest 2026 additions are subscription-only. IPTC metadata editing, playlist import and export, and flexible collection exports are reserved for subscribers and Nero Platinum subscribers. If those specific 2026 features do not matter to you, the standard purchase already covers the main library, playback and streaming functions.</p>