I have been playing with my Maxtor Shared Storage II drive recently. It is an external disk which can be shared over Ethernet without having some PC running. This drive can also be used as a media server allowing music players play music directly from it. It’s good because you can have one place for your music for whole family.
Maxtor is running a server which uses DAAP (Digital Audio Access Protocol). This protocol was first introduced by Apple.
What I wanted to do was access my home music also at work. The problem is that new versions of iTunes does not support DAAP over internet, just inside local networks. So I was looking for some alternative players and found those two, which allowed me to do that: