Well, the auction didn't make reserve so I'm engaging the seller with a view to a SCO at a realistic price. In the meantime...

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When the Rios are switched on the PC will wake up (so long as you have a newish PC that supports WOL and you have it configured). I try not to have my PCs whirring away continually for the 2 hours a day that they are serving music.

I can make sure the server has WOL but will WOL fire if I'm using a wireless bridge between the receiver and server?

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3. Not as good, and without using 3rd party software, you can only play album tracks in alphabetical order

So, it looks at the ID3 tags and plays in title order, or does it essentially ignore the tags and play in filename order?

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It might be worth sending Hugo (altman) a PM. He did at one point have a stack of Receivers to get rid of and I never noticed him selling them.

Thanks, I'll ping him in case he's interested in offloading one here.