2006 was the first annual SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards. XBMC was nominated in two categories, Games and Multimedia. XBMC was announced the winner in both. It was announced in the Slashdot Lounge at LinuxWorld Expo, Boston, April 5, 2006.

XBMC is a free open source (GPL) multimedia player for the Xbox™ from Microsoft. Currently XBMC can be used to play/view most common video/audio/picture formats such as MPEG-1/2/4, DivX, XviD, MP3, AAC, JPG, GIF plus many more less known formats directly from a CD/DVD in Xbox DVD-ROM drive or of Xbox hard-drive, XBMC can also stream files from a PC over a local network and even stream media streams directly from the internet. XBMC has playlist and slideshow functions, a weather forecast and many audio visualizations. All these features enable the Xbox™ running XBMC to fully function as a multimedia jukebox.

XBMC is easy to install and use, it's very convenient and flexible plus offers a great price/performance ratio. XBMC is of course also completely free of any adware or spyware. (This, The XBMC Project is also known as "XBMC Media Center" or simply "XBMC").

Note! XBMC is a hobby project that is only developed by volunteers in their spare-time for free. (Remember that XBMC does require a modded Xbox to run on or it will not function).