Balgovind Ranjith!

I've had my Raspberry pi for quite a long while now, about a year or more. For those who don't know what a Raspberry pi is, I'm guessing most of you, it's a "cheap, credit-card sized computer".

"It’s capable of doing everything you’d expect a desktop computer to do, from browsing the internet and playing high-definition video, to making spreadsheets, word-processing, and playing games." And apparently, it's really useful to most people.

Except I already have a computer… so I haven't found any use for it. Until now.

I've messed around with the device for a while, tried to make it into a NAS then a torrenting machine. None of which really worked out too well, cause almost everything done on this needs some kind of coding knowledge or the other. Which I have none of. :(

Recently, I've been trying to make this into my music store and playing device, somewhat like a media server. So first I tried to set it up as a upnp server, which did work! Somehow. But then, unfortunately, it just got too hard to maintain. Like finding a software or app that lets me use the upnp (for free of course, I'm not too big on spending :P).

Thennnn I found this website www.volumio.com which is exactly what I needed!!!

So what this thing is, is an OS for my raspberry pi, that lets me store music on it and then lets me play whatever songs I want from whatever device I want! And it was soooo easy to install too. You just go to the website, download the files, follow the instructions and in like half an hour, you're done.

Your media server is set up.

Oh and I love the web interface of that website, gorgeous.