DIY Cheap or Free Music Server

This is a Do-it-yourself-er if you want to make a very cheap or free Music server

I'm using an old IBM NetVista. It has a 767mhz processor and 192megs of RAM. For a hard drive it has a 80gb Western Digital 7200 rpm IDE drive. For an OS i use Windows XP Professional SP3. This computer used to be my main computer and then i got a new laptop and i don't use that any more. You have to either find a free computer either on the side of the road or on a couple websites EX. http://www.craigslist.org/ or http://www.freecycle.org/ (you have to have a membership for freecycle.org which is free) The computer doesn't have to be anything special you can use a 450 mhz Intel Pentium II with 128 mb ram, and Windows 2000 SP4.

You have to give the computer access to the internet. Wireless or wired. I would go with wireless so you can sotre the computer in an remote location where no one can see it like a closet or under a bed

You need space to store music right and that 15 gig hard drive wont do it. You need some BEEF to hold a good music collection. I would choose around a 160gb-500gb hard drive for a good music collection. You could ever do a dual hard drive setup, just mae sure you computer has the room for it. You also need to have the jumpers set right.

Take all the stff that you dont need. You don't need a monitor, keyboard or mouse. in the next step I will show you how to access the computer remotely form where ever you are.

use logmein free to remotly control the computer http://www.logmein.com/

I use a free program called ORB http://www.orb.com/ you can set up your computer that you have stored away in the closet, remotely. Download ORB FOR FREE!!! and set it up on the host computer

Choose your music program. I use frostwire. You can use what ever you want to. Make sure you set the download folder to the folder you specified in the ORB setup.

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