If you aren't a /. reader or you missed this morning's pointer to the article about Rio's new SonicBlue MP3 receiver, here's the article. It's both a review and a reverse engineering of the communications. I've had a multi-CD player for many years and it's always a pain to load, play, or even identify what's playing. Plus I've never liked it's random play function...but as Barbie would say, random numbers are hard ":^) Anywho, this is a great solution which is easily expandable with cheap hard drives. You have one computer/disk where all of your music goes and then the network is used to distribute them, as needed, anywhere in the house. Another option, or even something you can do in parallel, is to hook up a quality wireless FM Stereo transmitter to your PC/MP3 player and broadcast the music. Depending on the transmitter, antenna, and a few other variables you might get enough range to cover the whole house or office.

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