I actually made one myself and it has been great. If you own a lot of music and want to keep them in a centralized location, this is the move.
A couple of quick comments on the article below:
#The article calls for a hard drive that is at least 80MB in size–yeah right! This should say at least 80 Gig. The size is definitely variable according to the size of your music collection.
#I would make sure that the PC you are going to use as a server includes a CD burner just in case you want to burn some CDs.
#The article suggests that it will cost you at least $600. The author is definitely high-balln’ here. I just bought a used PC (10 Gig hard drive, about a 600MHz processor, 192M in RAM, Ethernet, CD burner, basic sound card) for $50 (Check craigslist.org for used PCs in your area).
#The article suggests using some PC speakers–whatevah!! If you have an existing stereo system, just buy the right audio cables to hook it up to that instead.
#If you are saying to yourself that you do not want to have an ugly monitor near your stereo, don’t worry. I use a remote client called RealVNC (its free!). This small program will allow you to see and control everything on your music server from any computer on your network. Just follow the instructions on the website on how to install it and you will be fine.
Here is the article that will explain how to set up your music server: “Convert an old PC into an MP3 jukebox”.
Have fun!!
#If your network cable isn’t long enough to reach the location of your stereo, go wireless
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