It's been a while - MPD

So it's sure been a while, but lots of items in the interim :-)

I'll have up in probably 4 parts a walkthrough on using Ampache with Server 2008 / IIS 7 / FastCGI with PHP - I wanted to see if it was actually possible, and sure enough it is! I'll also try to post the guts (and my first crack at soldering!) of a Neoware EON 3000 hacked up to be a low-powered linux box / mpd host.

some commands I've got to keep remembering before I shoot myself :-)

dmesg - spits back out all of the console messages that have come our way - especially helpful when trying to diagnose issues with hotplug devices
lspci - lists out your pci devices
free - lists your free memory
df -h - lists your free disk space
lsusb - lists out your usb devices (may need to apt-get this one)

And thanks to the dude at mightyOhm for his work with the Asus WL-520GU and mpd - works like a charm. I had gotten on the cheap a router already flashed with Tomato, and after (I'm crazy!) unblocking the file, was able to use the web-based flash updater to upload the image. After some work trying to get the config right on the wireless (use psk/psk2 on encryption instead of wpa/wpa2 when it's wpa2-psk), and figuring out the mentioned below 48k thing, and then making sure to put in my local server's IP in the hosts file, everything worked like a charm. (and of course the final ln -s /etc/init.d/mpd /etc/rc.d/s93mpd in order to get it to start on boot).

Thoughts on MPD:
Remember to set the ip address it listens on - by default it's listening to the localhost (and that's all!)
Check your little USB device for what frequency it works on - I think (retrospectively) that was half my issue on the ASUS WL-520GU (a wonderful little hacking device) - using the OSS driver I needed to replace the 44k with 48k.