garym wrote: 
> No. It can work forever until hardware breaks.

Even new hardware should be not too much of an issue, maybe a bit more
crude then the original but it could easily be made with off the shelf
components:

- an ARM SoC board with an ethernet connection like Raspberry,
Cubieboard, BeagleBord, etc 
- depending on the board, an USB audio device (class 2 audio device) or
I2S to SP/DIF converter
- Linux
- Squeezeslave

A *possible* Open Source Squeeze player scenario:

Once released to the public get a cubieboard. This board has ethernet,
has an IR receiver and has an SP/DIF on the GPIO header. Connect an USB
audio device that is supported in the linux kernel if you need
line/analog output. Connect also an LCD/VFD module and write code to do
some basic setup/usage as selecting the server to use, volume, next,
previous via the IR remote.

>From here you can take it anyware maybe add a touch/tft screen for a
richer UI (develop a touch and small screen optimized skin for the
Mediaserver and just use a http browser fullscreen on the player to
control the player (instead of writing a lot of code). As the cubieboard
will be fully open: extend the schematics and PCB design to include
something like a onboard DAC...etc etc


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