On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 13:09 -0800, Gerhard Magnus wrote: > Hello All, > > I'm interested in setting up streaming audio over a home network (as > preliminary and preparation for wider things later.) Assuming there > isn't a simple answer to how this can be set up in FC4, what is a good > place to start in studying the problem? Does the software architecture > follow a server-client model? I would suggest looking at slimserver. Namely because you can add a squeezebox in the future if you wanted. You can listen to the streams with many applications though, including Real and xmms and a java based squeezebox emulator - you don't need a squeezebox to listen.