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You'll still be restricted by their proposals
As royalties to the majors are required, any media content supplier is forced to
constantly pay the titles it offers. This is the reason why:
• You might not be able to find a song
• You might find a studio recorded version although you wanted the live version
• Your music/movies selections might be removed from your playlist because
the legal rights have changed
You hardly manage your own content
Although the ability to add personal files has been added recently, there are a few
limitations, as follows:
• You cannot perform a search in these topics or restrict a search to
your collection
• It also lacks a ranking by genre or composer, for enthusiasts of classical
and film music
• Artists' profiles still do not distinguish between studio albums, concerts,
and compilations
Your server, your rules
The solution that we are going to implement is based on different software,
according to our choices. I mean real choices. Quoting Wikipedia, a server
can be defined as follows:
A
server
is a running instance of an application (
software
) capable of accepting
requests from the client and giving responses accordingly. Servers can run on any
computer including dedicated computers, which individually are also often referred
to as "the server."
Powerful and straightforward software
installations
That being said, you want a media server but you are not comfortable with
these technologies, which might scare you or put you off. The applications
used in this topic are really straightforward to install and use; particularly,
open source applications have been selected.
