[Hampshire] [OT] Recommendation - media streamer

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Author: Rob Malpass
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Hi all

Can anyone recommend a decent media streamer? As usual, I realise I could build one and run any number of custom built distros on it but all I want is as follows:

* Wirelessly (or not) to be able to find my NAS which has 40 odd Gb of mp3s and play them
* I do have the odd (literally < 10Gb) of video
* I guess if it could connect to online radio that would be nice.

But apart from that my needs are minimal - don't even care if it's HDMI or Composite to connect to TV. Just about everything I've seen requires a Windows media or itunes library and crucially the PC holding the index must be on for the streamer to connect to. I have my music library organised by itunes but stored on my NAS so it should get available without a PC being on.

Cheers
Rob