HDX is now a networked music server - FOR REAL

You lot are a bit slow aren't you?
I got the latest Naim Newsletter "Connections Winter 2009-2010" by post today.
In there is a news article regarding the upgrades provided by the (imminent) HDX software update.
As predicted, it mentions that music ripped by the HDX can be 'moved' out to an external NAS storage device on the local network.

What it also mentions, that was not so commonly predicted, is that the HDX will now act as a music server, if so desired.
Which means that as well as playing selected music through the usual direct Analogue (or Digital) output, it can simultaneously stream other music to suitable uPnP control point devices on the network, which could be just ordinary PC's.

For example, if you have a PC connected on the same local network as the HDX, then you will now be able to access the HDX music files directly from that PC.
You will be able to select them, and play them, in full 16-bit 44.1KHz quality, using nothing more sophisticated than Media Player if that's all you've got - complete with the cover art stored in the HDX too!
And it will do it quite independently from whatever is being played either on the HDX directly, or on other client PC's on the network.

The HDX will likely appear to the PC just like a networked file server, visible in the 'My Network Places' list, and accessed in much the same way.

Now that's good news, in my book.
Happy times

Tonytronic.