[Aquarius]

... or somthing like Daphile. ( http://www.daphile.com/ ) (yes, I'm a hifi guy)

Very interesting. I am going to have to check this out. I get the occasional build for audiophile/music server. I am actually discussing a build using this board right now but I think he's going to use JRiver.

JRiver works well but is windows only.

Well, my main Hifi player is a Raspberry Pi + a Hifiberry Digi (http://www.hifiberry.com/hbdigi) addon board. so Daphile, Vortexbox... whatever, would be only for comparison. There will be an XBMC and mpd on the htpc but without all the nice configuration that make it sound good.

Note to the others about the Gigabyte board: Works out of the box on HDMI (never pluged a DVI adapter nor used the VGA port). TV is an old 720p Samsung.
One weird thing after installing my Linux Mint LMDE 201403 was that the OS thought I had 2 screens connected, side by side. The real TV and another 1024x768 one which I had to disable to avoid windows disapearing on me. (actually being launched on that second, fake screen).