I know it's perverted to reply to your own post, but I couldn't find a better place to rekindle this conversation.
I really dig Pandora. And I am, grudgingly, beginning to rip more of my disks.
But I have a question about using alternate front-ends for simultaneous whole-house audio. That is, I want to be able to store all the music on a NAS server (running FreeNAS), and then use PC's (using iTunes or ?) to stream the audio to various rooms. PC's I have, Squeezeboxes cost money. It *seems* like the slimserver software might allow this scenario. Would I be able to stream either simultaneous (the same track at the same exact time) or different tunes to each PC front end?
I either already have or could run Cat5e to all the locations I'm thinking of. Add some decent powered speakers and voila?
Curtis? Dennis? Bueller?
