Home Music Server software

[Robin Laing]

Pepebuho wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I installed a FC3 system to work as my Home Music Server. It is replacing an
> old 100 CD Mega Changer that is quite full by now.
> 
> The system uses the TV as monitor and I added a wireless keyboard and a
> wireless mouse to control it from afar.
> 
> After some initial problems and Google lookups I had everything up and
> running reasonably well.
> 
> My question is, What software is best to work as a multimedia center. I am
> not doing DVR stuff yet although I might in the future, but it is not a
> priority yet.
> 
> I want to digitize my 100+ CDs into the hard disk,  play them back, and make
> it very easy to search the hard disk for music. I want it to be very easy 
> to compile new playlists and save them.
> 
> If it were up to me, Sound Juicer and Xine would fit the bill, but I am not
> the only user of the system. There are other, older, people at home who are
> not as computer-savy as me and I would like this to be their introduction to
> computing, maybe they will get more interested once they master one activity
> (creating playlists, playing their favorite music) with the computer to do
> more. :)
> 
> Thanks for you recommendations.
> 
> Javier Perez
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