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I've submitted this to /. more than once, but got rejected every time - instead other (inferior) solutions gets posted!?

Adomo is creating what you are looking for!

Take a look at this preview of their solution - it is pretty cool!

Nothing is really new. There are a bunch of other companies like Ucentric out there

- Adomo
- 2Wire
- Coactive
to name a few off the top of my head.

You can find links to other companies on our old website. It's a bit dated, but still useful. None of these companies are doing anything open source (AFAIK).

We started our own project here at Point Clark Networks. It's an open-source solution to what Ucentric is offering. We're not even near anything cool yet, but people are more than welcome to contribute :-)

Cheers!

Adomo is taking a client/server aproach, where the clients is small wireless stations for everything you would can imagine. It uses Linux and the protocols, etc. is, of course, going to be released under the GPL.

Link to adomo.com

A good preview of the technology can be found here.

Check Adomo.com, which makes something similar. ZDnet has an excellent article describing it.

That's correct, as it is now, but I think the main reason is because the technology just hasn't evolved enough yet.

First, not many people has a fat pipe to the internet and therefore downloading a lot of MP3's (or hopefully soon .ogg files) just isn't very convenient.

Second, most peolpe listen to music on their stereo, not on their computer (better sound, easier, etc.) and most peolpe doesn't have a "connection" from their computer to the stereo. If you have a "connection" from you computer to your stereo, then you still can't control it with your stereo or your remote, which, well sucks...

It has to be atleastas easy to use as existing technology (CD's), before it will be widely used.
Solutions to this is on the way though. Take a look at what Adomo is doing.

A company called Adomo is making what I think could be the "next generation home computer network".

It will be client/server and wireless network, where all software and data is located. The clients can be everything you could imagine, a normal PC, a music player (the music is located on the server as MP3), a terminal (just for browsing and email, etc.

It is all based on Linux an other open stuff, and you are therefore free to make your own clients for whatever you would like.

My description is probably not very good, but ZDNet has a very god article here.