On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 17:43:17 -0500, Pepebuho <pepebuho@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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 MythTV (http://mythtv.org) is really nice for music, as well as the DVR functions it's known for. And a good base of community-minded users on the forums, etc. I used it for a while before my wife got fed up with my tinkering and bought a $100 TiVo. MythTV has a really nice, user-friendly interface that should please almost anyone. If you are even considering DVR functions in future, have a look at it. The hardest parts are setting up the TV-out and getting the remote to work, which it sounds like you've already done. --Matt
