http://www.olive.us

It's like a Rio Central, but with wireless, FLAC, UPnP and DAAP client and server, and less cheesy plastics. USD900 for the Central-like thing, USD200 for its attendant UPnP FLAC Receiver-like things.

Four years after we released the Rio Central, have we suddenly got competition?

I'd love to know if anyone gets some of this gear (they only ship to the US and Canada). Does it actually work?

Peter

I like the design but after having the central I would prefer something that streams from a pc. The sonos device looks interesting.

The problem with onboard ripping and storage is I end up having to rip and store my music in two places.

I also would like a video out that screen looks smaller than the central one.

The actual music management software that ships with it only runs on Mac OS X. Heh. That's a new one.

I haven't been using the central much but I don't remember the sound being better than stuff ripped on my pc.

The central did work ok for ripping but there is that bug with ripping multiple disks and my unit will not upgrade to the latest software version for some reason.

Rio music manager is about as easy to use for ripping as the central and it also has a multi disk mode.

Even if I did rip everything on the central then copy it to the pc I still have extra steps I think it would just be easier to store it all on a pc and stream to the player.

I think the Sonos player with the display on the remote control sounds like about the best idea.