My beloved and formerly trusty Squeezebox is starting to act up as well. More and more it freezes up as you move through the menus with the remote. If I use my tablet or iPod to control it, it seems fine.
Honestly, it's never been the same since Logitech bought them out and started applying patches to the server for the fancier versions they developed.
My Squeezebox expired, so now I use an old laptop running Ubuntu and a Squeezebox emulator. I have added a USB sound card as the laptop audio leaves much to be desired.
I have also used a Raspberry Pi for this purpose.
