[MPlayer-users] Networked CD Player

[Olaf]

Hi,

I am looking for some pointers here from the community at large:

I know that the general idea is to shove a CD into the drive, copy it to disk 
and stream it across into my SBs.

What, though, if I did not want to copy to disk?  Perhaps because the disk is 
only played occasionally and generally not worth the copy bother?  Or perhaps 
because I borrowed the CD and am highly conscientuous about copyright?

Whatever the case may be, it occurs to me that

(1) Using XP, I could create a symbolic name for my CD drives under the SLIM 
music folder.  They would seem like an ordinary music folder then, so long as 
there's a CD inside.

(2) Every time I change the CD, I suppose I would have to ask SLIM to rescan 
the music library.  That's a bit painful.  Rescanning the music library always 
is.  I was wondering whether SLIM were working on a smarter way of picking up 
changes to the music folder such that (a) the server would notice itself when 
it needs to rescan and (b) such rescans could be more targeted.

In this context it would be quite goofy if the server could itself detect that 
the CD was swapped over and that it needed to have a look at the 
updated "folder".

(3) I notice that CDs carry files ending in .cda.  I stream FLAC.  Is there a 
codec that transcodes from one to the other?

Thanks for your thoughts - ovr.