IDG Contributor Network: How to build your own Netflix and Spotify with Nvidia Shield and Raspberry Pi

I run a file server at home that houses all of my files, including documents, images, videos and films, TV shows and music that I purchase. It also doubles as a media server, running Plex. But this is a damn expensive machine (by my standards). It cost me over $800 to build this system with an eight core CPU and 16GB of RAM.
I did run a Raspberry Pi file server briefly, and it served me very well as as file server. But it could not be used as a media server because my favorite Plex Media Server