But he could pipe it to a digital system at each location and use a line out to the non-digital system. Any old PC could fit the bill with a damnsmalllinux or other flavor and low low hardware requirements. If you want it quiet and clean, then any small, fanless, low-end set-top type boxes would do it. Brian Kelsay ________________________________ From: kclug-bounces@kclug.org [mailto:kclug-bounces@kclug.org] On Behalf Of Monty J. Harder Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 11:52 PM On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Andrew Beals <andrew.beals@gmail.com<mailto:andrew.beals@gmail.com>> wrote: Easy peasy linux solution: 1. Master running MPD service. 2. Slaves grabbing the streaming audio off of MPD. Well, the problem is that "streaming audio" sounds an awful lot like a "digital system", and the original question was: I'd like to have an option to pipe an audio stream from a cental PC to various non-digital audio systems around the house So I guess that's right out.