[ale] OT: Wireless digital music players?

[Mike Murphy]

I was at the ole Best Buy yesterday, seeking to replace my linksys WAP 
base station that died (hey, it was 4 years old), and I noticed this:

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?id=1069300162622&skuId=6228021&type=product&productCategoryId=pcmcat25300050005

manufacturer link:
http://netgear.com/products/prod_details.php?prodID=234

Netgear has come out with a wireless digital music player. It looke 
pretty neat to me, at least for $150. Unlike a somewhat similar linksys 
offering, it doesn't seem to need an xp machine to play music either. I 
was wondering: has anyone else messed with one of these? Ive seen a 
couple of similar products, but they always seem more expensive, and 
don't do wireless (well, you could buy an ethernet/wireless bridge, I 
suppose, but that's even more $$). One negative I see is that the 
netgear doesn't say it plays ogg (but then again, all my tunes are still 
in mp3 anyway, so it doesn't really matter to me).

Mike

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