I really miss my audiotron. It's too bad Turtle Beach did not manage it well.
Had they open sourced the hardware, it would have sold like crazy.
That dam WinCE hurt them.
Don't get me wrong, they were very responsive in feature additions, but they also limited thier market too.
I believe it would stil be selling today if they opened sourced the hardware.

Linux on that hardware would have provided life way beyond what thier developers dreamed of.

After seeing the market with Hacked NSLU2's, Kuro Boxes, WRTG54's, Roku's photobridge & soundbride, peop[le should really consider where things are going.

Roku did the right thing by allowing such interconnectivity with techies.

In any case, I bought one, tested it, put it on top of my 21" monitor, then turned around and bought another for the living room.

Normal retail is $399, My price point for these was $300 each. When I found an eBay seller making them available at $279 +$20 shipping I jumped on it.

It's going to take a bit of programming to write to the screen.
It allows simple telnet access to write in 5 different fonts all over the screen.
Pretty slick.
I just have to integrate it with my alert system.
Right now the alert system is based on a Voice Synthesis application called Festival.
A simple mail message to an address and the subject is extracted and sent to the speech synthesizer.
I also have this tied in externally to an alert mailbox that is queried via IMAP.

Once everything is done, it will display the alerts to the remote consoles around the house.
All wireless too.

As I mentioned, it plays music too!
It's not as simple to implement as the HD1000/Photobridge, but it's small, highly portable, ver visible and a workable solution for remote MP3 library access.

Supposedly it works with slimserver, however I could not get it to work right.
Slimserver sort of sucks anyway.
It's a great idea, but the implementation is in perl (of which I love) and starts to bog when your library gets large.
I expect to get it to work with slimserver in the future, although it looks as though Roku does not plan to offer future support.

Roku supports the UPnP AV interface. It can also support iTunes and WMC.

I had to install some server software mt-daapd to allow access and once done it worked like a charm. A lot of people on the boards balked at having to install server software, even I was a bit turned off by it. After I thought about it, it would either be a samba server or a daapd server so it became moot.

There is an issue with the mt-daapd implementation. It uses the file's inode as a key in a GDBM file.
Also it can only access one directory at the current time.
Although you could use symlinks to build a spanning tree, the single inode key will cause problems when two files on different filesystems have matching inodes.

I may have to hack at it.

We'll see what the future brings.