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Okay so I would like to take an external harddrive I have and allow myself, the girlfriend, and the roommate to share all of our music. Now in my head this works very easily as all I have to do is plug the harddrive into the router and it should work. 1. Is this possible or am I crazy. 2. What is the best router for this.
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There's a lot more to it. It really depends on a lot of different things. Things like what devices are you playing your music on. Is some of the music DRM protected. What operating systems are you using.
There's a lot of different ways to go about it. You could just store all the music on one laptop/desktop and makeht efolder public. You could try for a media server, maybe even a NAS or a cloud type of environment.
It really all depends on the first set of questions. If everyone is using a mac are you using itunes? Is some of the music protected, if so you have to make it available to everyone. If you're using a mixture of players and operating systems that adds to the complexity.
You could have a direct connected to the router a NAS and store a central folder for music there. You would need to make sure things like DRM are sorted out and everyone's player points to that one folder. You could create your own cloud sever. It would have its own wireless access and help with traffic on your network. You could also create your own media server for movies and music and connect it to your tv and router. This way folks could watch movies on your tv or stream them to a laptop.
There's a ton of different ways and you need to make sure that everyone is on the same page. You also want to make sure you back up your network hard drive, create an image of it and keep it because if anything bad happened you would lose all your music.
Do some research about the different types of methods out there and see what would work best for you. -
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If you setup a desktop or laptop as a media server, I recommend using XBMC."POWER!!! UNLIMITED POOWWWEEEER!!!!!!
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