Since you will have some time before you actually get a player, you can setup a "virtual" system to start to try things out. As part of getting the Mac Mini up and running, you can go ahead and download the Squeezebox Server software and get that setup. The is an application called "SoftSqueeze" which is a software emulator of the Squeezebox players. It used to be accessible right from the Squeezebox Server (formerly known as SqueezeCenter), but now it's a separate item being supported by the community. Before I got any Squeezebox Players, I had Squeezecenter up and running, with SoftSqueeze running on my Desktop PC which was hosting Squeezecenter, and also on a laptop which I would drag to my living room when I wanted to stream music. The software players are not perfect (also, in addition to SoftSqueeze, there is also SqueezePlay which is basically the controller software which also includes a player feature, but that function still seems to be very hit-and-miss, and also squeezeslave, which is a GUI-less software player - I still run squeezeslave on my desktop PC as a virtual Squeezebox player). The software players seem to be much less robust then the hardware players in terms of buffering, playing all types of streams, but they allow you to try out the whole experience before your hardware players arrive, and give you a chance to get the server up and running, play with getting your music files setup and properly tagged, etc.
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