Hi everyone,

I've got a rather large(and growing) digital music collection. Right there's only one copy of it that isn't out-of-date, which is on my primary Windows box here at home. The problem is though, that I use several laptops, and often find their version of my collection to be out of sync.

My thought was to use an old laptop of mine with some linux distro(Ubuntu I guess, don't really know much about Linux) as a music server. I do realize there are harddrive racks out there with internet connectivity, but I'm trying to solve the problem using whatever resources I have available(being a student, it's not really like I have a choice ).

Anyway the question for me now is, how would I keep the library synchronized? Do I only keep the one copy on the server, and just stream it to the clients? If so, this poses yet another problem as I don't have a static IP address.

Another solution would be to autosync the library every time a computer is on a local network with my server.

I guess I'm just looking for some input on how to approach the problem . Any input is greatly appreciated.