Hello!

I have the Audiotron by Turtle Beach. It's really quite cool for an inital product @ $299. I chose it over others becuase I wanted something that had a S/PDIF output and worked with open shares. (Yes it does work with Linux/Samba).

There are some flaws (like anything), but there is an active mailing list where they are listening to users to make it better. (3 flash updates already in the last 45 days or so I've had it).

You drill down by song, artist, genre or album. Or play playlists you have on the PC, or can make them on the fly (like jazz+techo+Peter Gabriel in random). Skipping to the next song in the playlist does take some time, but more like 1-3 seconds in my setup. At $299 with a digital out (heading into a Lexicon pre) I like it a lot. Big Redhat box w/ 320kbps LAME ripped music and I'm set. More time for mixing cocktails. :)

Anyway, I ordered an Empeg online yesterday. Didn't get any order confirmation today, but I hope it's on the way. I seriously can't wait.

Good luck,

-James