Ok sounds like there are most of the components out there, just need someone to glue it together. Can you mount a filesystem via FTP? I realise that this would still only show the FIDs etc, but interestedin how this is done in general

So what app do you linux geeks use to stream music to, if not xmms? any recommendatnios on better mp3 players for linux? specifically I'd like to be able to drag the stream links onto a players playlist to be able to coibble party playlists as drunkards ask for tracks. I don't know if the shortfall in dragging is to do with gnome or if its just xmms that needs to handle a dropped item - Im still getting my head around hte nix windowing model.

Decided that I'd spent enough time on windows and so switched to ubuntu - still learning the nooks 'n crannies