Stereo Component for Digital Audio

An anonymous reader writes "The techs over at Tech Radio interviewed Lydstrom, Inc. about their recently announced Songbank MZ3-5000, a digital audio player meant for the home that uses compression technology from Lucent to store up to 5000 songs on one player. Apparently the quality of the output is better than MP3, but the device is also MP3 compatible. They posted the interview on their Archives page. " My guess is that a huge number of us have hacked together stereo components to do this already (I use xmms & the IRMan plugin for mine- although I wish it had better handling of large numbers of playlists). Interesting tho.