Is this device compatible with Media Center and/or Media Server? I would like to be able to use the optical output on this device to connect to a home stereo. Should I be able to get the device to recognize my music without using the included MusicMatch software?
I know that there has been some mention of similar devices before, but I have not found a definitive answer from J River about this type of appliance. I would most like to be able to control a device like this as a zone (or something similar) through a MC client. Could you guys devise some general way of accomplishing this for this class of devices? For example, I think that most of these devices will tune into internet radio. Could MC be made to emulate an Internet radio with each zone representing a different station? Thus, you select music using the powerful MC interface and could tune in from your LAN or the Internet in general. If this could be done, I would like the option of streaming WAV (along with track info, if possible), so that I could play my lossless audio (APE) on a stereo through a device like the Linksys.
What do you guys think?
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