I hope it will do more than that...I already have one of those (my pc)

And you could run a PC-based MP3 player from your car's trunk, too. The empeg just does it better and more reliably.

You could use a PC in any room of your house to play networked MP3 files. But the Rio Receiver does it better and more simply (and without any fan noise).

These products aren't about doing things you can't do with a PC, they're about doing the same thing in a much more convenient, more reliable, more feature-rich, and more compact package.