Media players compatible with Linux?

[Gregory Gulik]

I know this is slightly off topic but I've been wanting a media player 
box hooked to my stereo so I can just stream MP3/OGG files off my PC and 
play them through my stereo as easily as a CD player.

Based on a recommendation of a friend, who is a techie but not a Linux 
user, I bought a D-Link DSM-320.  He told me it uses standard HTTP from 
port 8080 to stream.   Among many other problems with the box, the 
biggest is that there is another protocol layer on top of HTTP that's 
Microsoft proprietary.  I found a free server from a site in Germany 
that claimed to support this unit under Linux but it never worked.  Even 
with XP I had a lot of problems.

Is there another competing device that uses standard protocols that can 
be made to work with Linux (FC3) specifically relatively easily?


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Greg Gulik                                 http://www.gulik.org/greg/
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