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[gkerber]

I'm ready to get a pc just as the music server on my network.  How much of a pc processor do I need for this?  My AMD2000|PLS| is up to the task, how about a Celeron 1gig processor?

[RemyJ]

Playing music is pretty trivial as far as CPU goes.  Serving it over a LAN without actually playing it is even more trivial.  You'll just barely see the CPU usage twitch on a 1ghz.  

Of course, you'll need to figure out memory, hard drive and sound card options based on exactly how the machine will be used...

Will the library be stored locally on this machine?  Will you be ripping and encoding on this machine?  Ripping on your AMD machine across the LAN to this machine?  Ripping on the AMD to local files, then bulk transferring to the new one? Playing from the new machine to external audio components, etc, etc.