In order to deal with some of these issues, I've used a packet sniffer to watch the receiver talk to the PC software. I found that if I use the supplied software to boot the receiver, then shut off the PC software, I can run my own music server (which I've written).

I love it. In another thread, Frank was just talking about how somebody was going to reverse-engineer the protocol to write their own server. I knew he was right, I just didn't know his prediction would come true within the next fifteen minutes.

Any chance you'd want to reverse-engineer the booting part of the software, too, then open-source it for the folks who want to run a Linux version?

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Tony Fabris