If your idea of enjoying your music collection is having the ability to listen to your music anywhere and skip the premium price mobile music downloads, because why should you pay for a music you’ve spent years creating anyway? In the past the technology has got in the way. Your music was never in one place. The song you want is not on your iPod or phone. They are never big enough. Dialing into your computer at home is for people with more patience than you. And you worried about security. So how can you organize and access your music easily? Solutions like media hubs such as the Cisco Linksys Media Hub changes the rules. It grabs your music (and other media too, like photos and video) and copies it to a central location. It even consolidates individual songs from different sources back to the same source album they should be grouped together with -- useful if you tend to buy single songs rather than full albums. Now that’s simple. With simple, you have three benefits:1. You can find your music easily.2. It makes streaming safer. You only need to open up your media hub to the world, not your other computers. Streaming is built into the Media Hub. You don’t need to decide what the best secure technology is for streaming.3. Backing up your music is simpler and you are less likely to miss backing that one song you really wanted.You may have to think a little differently about your media. With all your media files parked in one place, you can now do something rather useful. You can think about managing media differently. Media management is now separate from media use. Because the truth is that people tend to have different preferences about software. Someone in your family may be an iTunes fan. Someone else is a Windows Media Player aficionado. The more mobile inclined may love the ease of use of being able to use a browser to access your media library from a portable device while traveling. In the past you may have thought of iTunes as your media management and also as your software for using the media. Now, you can have your media accessed by multiple users simultaneously to any music device on the network including PCs and wireless home audio solutions.Do you have any tips or questions on streaming music? Let me know in the comment section below, Twitter or Facebook. Please visit the Cisco consumer and Linksys by Cisco websites to learn more about what Cisco is doing for your home network.