Flutterby™! : Media Hub

I'm sure some folks here moved the TV into storage long ago, but others, like me, still have a relatively traditional arrangement of TV and stereo in a living area. What I also have is large amount of mp3 files in another room, which I'd like to play via the stereo on occasion.

I've considered the media center route, but I don't want the noise of a PC in the living area. Wandering thru Best Buy today, I spied a Linksys Media Adapter which immediately caught my eye as a better solution, but a conversation with a friend outside the store led me to the Prismiq MediaPlayer which runs Linux and their forum has discussions about telneting to the box, writing different code for the hardware, writing modules to decode other types of files, etc.

The Linksys would work fine for me, but a device like this might a candidate as a "front end" for snippet manager and it just plain ol' looks like a positive step toward getting media accessible around the house.