I was really intrigued by this. I have thought about using joomla for a media server so that I can listen to music at work and school, but didn't really know where to begin...and although, I still don't really know, I have a little more guided step. Thank you. But I do want to address one thing that you said. Open source is free. Most of the programs are free in price, but the term free is used here as freedom, not monetary. There are companies, like Redhat and mandriva that do offer free options, but their corporate versions cost money. Mostly for the support, but also for the documentation. But free just means you can view the source and edit it yourself to fix bugs and make components your own. Just a small oversight, one I thought is mostly misunderstood...because of the english language. One word, two or three meanings. :-)