How do I start a digital music library?

[richth]

Out of interest, can you stream from a cloud based private storage (OneDrive etc)?

I'd also agree with independent disks/ssd for backups as I once lost my storage on a mirrored pair of disks as the RAID information got corrupted.

Some services will let you stream your own files. Others will not and are just a storage utility. I used OwnCloud to stream my own files and it worked really well. But the interface is not fun to use. It's not hard to use, but it doesn't look nice and isn't a joy like some of the modern User Interfaces you see now. Currently I use a Bryston BDP-1 to play my own digital file collection from a standard SSD plugged into it. The BDP-1 is just a stripped down Linux computer designed to only to play music files, with as little interference from the electronics in the box as possible.

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[dalryc]

Thanks to all that contributed to this thread - it's left me with a few evaluation points.