Who needs the likes of Sky Anytime or Virgin Media's On Demand services when you can build your own personally tailored digital media library? This is a library that contains your personal, curated collection of music, TV shows and movies. It's accessible from any room in your home (or outside it), and there's no digging through CDs, sitting through DVD intros or flicking through someone else's choice of content, 90% of which you have no interest in.In this tutorial, we'll show you how to build your own media server using the versatile ? and incredibly cheap ? Raspberry Pi 2.

We're not just talking about any bog-standard media server either ? no, thanks to the Pi 2's quad-core processor and 1GB RAM, you can run the frankly fabulous Plex Media Server directly from it. We'll reveal the easiest way to get it up and running on your Pi, plus show you how to hook it up to all your stored media and configure it so you can access your content from anywhere ? not just your own local network.How to turn your Raspberry Pi 2 into a retro games consoleThe Raspberry Pi 2 as a media serverYou might be wondering why you'd choose to build a dedicated media server when any modern PC or Mac (sporting a 2GHz dual-core processor or chipset with hardware accelerated video decoding) can do the job. Two reasons: convenience, and energy consumption.