>>The Rio/Dell receiver is very unlikely to ever get Samba support, as it's a thin client. The advantages of this approach will become clearer over time...

Good point; A linux server app would work fine.

>>For example, the Audiotron has a hard limit on the number of tunes it can index - simply because it has to hold the index in memory. We don't have any such limitations as the indexes are server-side - this also allows complex queries and inter-device integration.

Searches and queries on the Rio are worthless to me because I cannot see the display from my seating position! Put a NTSC output or larger display on the box and then you might have something. Several other mp3 boxes like this have the same problem.

>>Anyway, suffice to say that if you want to hang around a bit you'll see why you want a receiver & not the gateway box :)

Well that's great.. break out the whip and get those programmers programming. Maybe hire Lucy Liu. :) But unless they can code a bigger display, SonicBlue will need to package a set of binoculars with every Rio Receiver. Hell I'd even be willing to buy an LED display and plug it onto the Rio Receiver's motherboard if it were possible.

-Hoagy.