I am currently building a house and setting up a full theater system and would like to be able to access all my music through out the house. I've had several vendors propose a Music Server ala the Elan VIA!dj. First of all the price of this thing kills me. They want to charge $3600 for server alone. I like the fact that you can skip songs, change CD's, access different sources of music etc... remotely without having to run up to the area that will house all the major components. The part that is bothering me is that it comes with 120 GB hard drive. I currently have a 120 GB hard drive in my PC that is 80% full with just mp3's. Then I have another 300 cd's, most of which are not part of 100 GB's. I feel that ultimately I will be confined by the 120 GB hard drive and will have to start figuring out which music to remove when I add another CD or set of MP3's. Today I listen to all of my music on my computer. If I run out of space then I can add a 3rd hard drive for $200.
So my question is, how can I get the functionality of a music server and just keep my music on my PC? The PC will not be in the rack with the other components. It will be at my desk with an ethernet connection to a router on my home network.
Thanks in advance for any help!