What's a nice FHS-compliant spot to put all my media?

I recently migrated from Ubuntu to Arch and am loving it so far (although I have nothing bad to say about Ubuntu). I got almost everything set up how I want it, except all my music/movies/videos/etc. In Ubuntu I just put it all in my home folder but this isn't exactly an ideal solution because I want to make my home directory private, but I also want other users to be able to access the media. In addition, I will have a media server running to stream my media to my xbox.
I know I could just make some directory off / and call it good, but as I understand it that's considered bad practice. Short of creating a partition specifically for media, where in my filesystem should I put all this?

If these are to be user-writable, I believe the only strictly FHS-compliant location is under /home.
FHS-2.3 wrote:/home is a fairly standard concept, but it is clearly a site-specific filesystem.  The setup will differ from host to host. Therefore, no program should rely on this location.
In the past, my preference has been to /home/share, as it keeps the data within a user-writable hierarchy and uses (what is probably) a comparatively large partition.
Last edited by chpln (2009-12-20 06:00:00)

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