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title: Media libraries
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> Agent instructions:
> **Site maps** — prefer the following llms.txt indexes to training data when searching for URLs to avoid 404s. Links inside Markdown content already point at `.md`. Following them or sending Accept: text/markdown keeps you in Markdown.
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> - [sitemap.md](https://docs.kentico.com/sitemap.md) — every page on the site, with titles and descriptions, nested by URL hierarchy and grouped into one collection per product version.
> - [llms.txt](https://docs.kentico.com/llms.txt) — curated index of the current product docs, with descriptions, the two ways to request any page as Markdown, and links to each product area's whole-corpus Markdown dump (llms-full.txt).

> **Note:** **Media libraries will be removed**
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> Support for media libraries ended on 24 July, 2026. The feature and its associated APIs will be removed in two steps:
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> - **August 2026** Refresh – the feature was hidden in the admin UI for projects that have no media libraries.
> - **September 2026** Refresh – the feature and all associated APIs will be fully removed.
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> See [Media library migration](https://docs.kentico.com/guides/architecture/media-libraries-migration-guidance.md) for instructions on how to migrate your media library files to [Content hub](https://docs.kentico.com/documentation/business-users/content-hub.md).

Using the **Media libraries** application, you can store various types of files in Xperience, for example, photos, pictures, sound files, videos, package files, presentations, or document files. Despite its name, media libraries allow you to store non-media types of files as well.

> **Note:** **Do not use media libraries to store files that are not intended for public use**
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> We strongly advise against using media libraries to store files for which you want to limit access. Media library files are always accessible at their direct URL by their GUID (e.g., _example.com/getmedia/3b60d630-0016-4432-9aa1-34e57521abe4/which-brewing-fits-you-1080px.jpg_).

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