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I am very interested in the DS system. I auditioned the akurate DS , dcs Puccini with ayre x series pre amp/amp with vandersteen 5a's.
It was amazing, to my ears the ds bested the 20k puccini. Matter of taste
Anyway the interface to access the music seems archaic. I think all of the NAS servers are linux based. there is an open source program called banshee, http://banshee-project.org/, that looks like it could serve as an excellent program to access the music files and you can use a number of devices to use with the program.
does this look like a good solution for accessing the music files, over twonky?
TIA

This software does not appear to be a uPNP compliant media server. It looks more like an iTunes app for syncing files to a portable media player.

I do not understand all of the terms but it is UpnP compliant
check this out
http://abock.org/2008/10/09/from-scott-t.../#comments

Until yesterday (something went REALLY wrong in my Ubuntu 8.10 test setup....) I was using both Banshee and Rhythmbox. I did not find how to get Banshee to work on a UPnP network, on the other side, I was able to get Rhytmbox to work as a UPnP media server (and suppossedly as a UPnP media renderer but did not try it).

The Rhythmbox plug-in mentions that it is UpnP/DLNA 1.0 compliant, so as soon as I have a working Ubuntu 8.10 setup (sigh...damned segfaults everywere...) I will retest it with my DS and report.