I just published a blog entry about EFIKA MX, used as a music server: http://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/2010/08 ... ic-server/ It was originally written for my colleagues, who also want to make their CDs more accessible, but as most EFIKA MX users are here, I also post it here.

If you have any questions related to the setup, post it here, as the comment part of our new blog system is not yet functional...

It looks nice; MPD looks like a neat idea. My current music collection fits into about 12 GB so I would prefer to copy it to a large SDHC if I had an EFIKA. Do you need to power the HDD separately ? If the SDHC interface is fast enough it would save power, space and maybe a power socket.

Can MPD stream the music to a client ? I can imagine streaming music from the MX to an iPod touch.

I use flac compression, which takes quite a lot of space, so my collection does not fit on an SD card. The HDD, which does not need any additional power source, uses ~1W.

SDHC would be fast enough, just not big enough for my whole collection.

MPD can't stream, but there are many streaming applications. I'll try them once I have a little time again. I don't have any Apple products (except for an USB cable :-) ), so I'll need to find a Linux client for testing...

There is one streaming app I remember trying: ampache. It's easy to setup, but requires apache + php + mysql...

Someone told me that MPD can stream so I checked http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/Features

MPD says it supports Shoutcast/MP3, Shoutcast/Ogg Vorbis output plugins so it should be possible to stream.

Probably not worth streaming FLAC (?)

Wow, strange. Up until now I thought, that what's written at http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/What_MPD_Is_and_Is_Not is true, I mean, that there is no streaming. But the bottom of the configuration page has an example for streaming. Ubuntu has the right version, so I tested it, but mpd fails to start without an error message, if streaming is enabled...