Also, is it possible to customise the drill-down browse tree as you can with DLNA Server and WebRemote, as opposed to being stuck with the standard Artist/Album/Genre menus?
Yes you can, not via the DLNA settings in MC, but you can create a new tree structure in MC that Neremote uses as its root.
For exampe, in MC under AUDIO/Netremote/ I have whatever structure I was presented on the remote, then when I select Music on the remote it sets the tree browser to "Audio/Netremote" as the root.
Happy to send you my files for you to test (You can run netremote on your windows PC), they are in need to reworking but they will still give you an idea.
I donlt actually browse the treee much in NR anymore, I tend to use Thetare View most fo the time, but it is nice when I'm outside away from the screen to still be able to browse the tree and queue up more music.
Of course now you canb (in theory) use MC's Webremote or Gizmote.
Richard