Home MP3 Listening
My trusty old AudioRequest is decent for playing MP3s on my stereo, but I’ve been using it less these days. For one, its fan and drive are very loud, particularly in contrast with my iBook, which whispers pleasantly in my peaceful home office. I’m also loath to leave it on because of the amount of power that it consumes. Finally, while the TV-based interface is pretty good, it’s less straightforward to control when you’re not in front of it (and I’m speaking as someone who wrote what became the core of their Java-based remote control app).
On the other hand, if one were to combine the silent, low-power, hackable SLIMP3 network MP3 player with the silent, low-power, geekto-fabulous 120GB Martian NetDrive server, it would make a compelling MP3 solution indeed. And the NetDrive supports the SLIMP3 out of the box. Yum.