[lunkhound]

IMHO this is a very strange setup. XBMC is not designed to be a headless music player. Why not use logitechmediaserver and install squeeze player (android software) on the FTV?

Or buy a squeezebox, which is actually designed to do what you want :-)

Well my music library lives on a Solaris box (a ZFS server) and logitech media server doesn't work on that OS.

Yes it does (or should). It is open source and perl.

Logitech Media Server is Open Source Software and written in Perl. Logitech Media Server runs on pretty much any platform that Perl runs on, including Linux, Mac OSX, Solaris and Windows.

http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Lo...dia_Server

I stand corrected, thanks! I did not realise it was open source.
However, the Solaris installation instructions are outdated (its for SPARC hardware), the OpenSolaris instructions are newer, but still pretty old. It looks like it could be a bit painful to get working on my OS.
Because I'm running an obscure OS on it, I prefer to keep my fileserver as minimal and simple as possible, so I greatly prefer a music streaming client (like XBMC) that can function using only standard network file protocols like SMB and NFS.
Still, nice to know the option is there for future reference.