Powerbook bluetoothed to cell phone PDA (PalmOS). Windows Media Player (sorry, what I want to hear is only available as a WMA stream, and unless I can pervert TCPMP, I lose on PalmOS) on Mac, and then use an audio cable to hook to aux in on the empeg.

Poof. Columbus radio in Maryland, DC, Virginia, Delaware, New Jersey, wherever.

Sadly I have to admit to something similar. For a few weeks now, my empeg has been seeing a ton of Aux usage, with an iPod hooked to the end of the audio cable. Initially it was a Shuffle for podcasts, now it is a Nano for the same use.

I feel more horrible for abusing the cell phone to pipe in radio.

Of course what I really want is to be able to use the Treo's net on the empeg and just decode WMA in mplayer on the empeg directly.

CD101.

Hm. I bet I could port mplayer to the empeg, then I'd have 2 problems:
-is the empeg powerful enough to decode asf? (it's float, so probably not)
-how to get network from the Treo to the empeg. empeg has bluetooth (DUN) but I never got the aircable to work with the Treo.

One more problem is that you have to buffer the audio in specific sized chunks

On a Mac you should be able to convert a PodCast to MP3 in iTunes

Such a pity that Rio probably won't be building their player that fitted in your jeans change pocket ... <sigh> it was really nice too!