Of course, you could go the way of Bose or other high end manufacturers and build a hifi module that is all in one - with the hard drive and cd player built in.
If you use the Bose units with the hard drive built in (the word 'computer' or 'hard drive' is not even used, therefore you don't scare the pants off people!), you simply insert a new CD to the unit and it rips, encodes and tags for you. Next time around you just play from the unit without the CD.
It wouldn't take a genius to get a slimserver o/s based unit that is chunkier that the existing squeezebox2 (the size of a full size hifi or midi hifi separate), but has a cd drawer for ripping, high capacity hard drive, and ethernet port/wireless capability for access to the internet / PC link for PC based music storage.
If people don't know it is a computer then that's half the battle won.
John
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