[dba-Tech] netbook as a home music server: followup

We bought a SqueezeBox Touch for $230. Installation is dead simple: plug 
it in, attach a cat5 wire (it does wifi but why cut speed & reliability 
in half?), plug its optical output into the receiver's aux optical in 
plug (the 2m cable is $25), download the server software (OS, written in 
Perl) from mysqleezebox.com, install it on a box that's on all the time, 
tell it where the music folders are, and bingo, we have point&click 
access to all our networked music plus hundreds of classical fm stations 
round the world (including Radio Beijing, which on the first evening's 
evidence likes to play Bach & Mozart piano pieces).

The big advantages of hearing music ripped to FLACs through this setup 
are convenience & of course sound, which with SqueezeBox digital output 
is superbly clear & detailed. I might be able to match that with a $1K 
CD player, but ripping to the network with MediaMonkey is dead simple, I 
sit at a computer 8h a day anyway, and CD cabinets can be moved from the 
living room to a back room. The best things in life aren't always free 
but they're often cheap.

PB