I have been looking at a product called the Squeezebox. It's a pretty cool device for streaming music from your computer to anywhere else in your house. It's software is very extensible, so the internet community has extended it in a lot of ways. Also, their software for the computer (slimserver) is free, downloadable Open Source. There is a software emulator for the hardware interface (SoftSqueeze) so you can see if you'll like the interface before buying the hardware (around $250). All very cool! I'm currently running both slimserver and SoftSqueeze on my computer. One of the plugins I installed allows me to automatically update my blog with the song information the slimserver is currently dishing out. At least while I'm testing it out, you can see it in the upper right corner of the main page. It looks something like this:
I'm listening to:
Song: Let Me Put My Love into You
Album: Back in Black
Artist: AC/DC
Last Updated: Monday, November 7, 2005 5:18:24 PM
It's very easy to adjust the look. It's a simple HTML file template with a few special variables to plugin so you can create any look you'd like!
I wish I would have read your comments about Alienware before having made my purchase, I am currently having problems with them. It has taken them over a month to return 2,000 dollars that they took out of my debit account, so that my order would finally move out of stage 2. By the way my order was in stage 2 for over 3 weeks and they never alerted me to the fact that they were having problems accessing my account.
Mr. Moyer