I love the idea of having a media server in my house that would allow me to watch movies on different devices throughout our home, as well as stream music to wireless speaker in different areas.
Just came across this Wired article:
https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-b...etlab_list1_p4
Is this generally good advice? Does anyone have a server like this, or something different that does the same thing?
For me, the driving force behind this is music more than movies - most of my movie content would be from my Blu-Ray collection, which I can already play on 2 of my 3 TVs, and I will likely pick up a 3rd player soon. However, I'd really like to set up some outdoor speakers, and have an older stereo downstairs I'd like to stream music to, and may do something similar upstairs (3 floor house). I also like the idea of having all my media backed up to a separate server like this.
Edit to add: Thinking about this further, maybe it would be helpful to elaborate on exactly what I'd like to do. My desktop is in my office on the main floor, where it is directly connected to my router/Internet. I'd like to have some wireless speakers on the front porch as well as the deck out back, a couple in the main living room/kitchen area, I have a stereo system downstairs (thinking I could plug a Chromecast into the receiver), and down the road it would be cool to have a couple of speakers upstairs. Is a Plex server a good way to tie everything together, or is there a better way to do this? And while I expect this is getting outside the scope of this forum, I'm not sure where else to ask it, so speaker advice would be welcome. I'm not really up for paying a few hundred for each speaker like a Sonos. I'm no audiophile that needs every high and low note hit perfectly, but I still want it to sound good LDO.
Hmm...maybe multiple Chromecasts with "regular" wired speakers and mini-amps:
https://www.howtogeek.com/257959/how...le-chromecast/