I have copied the entire CD database to my Netgear EVA9150 media player and it is hooked up directly to my audio system. I would like to use the 9150's internal hard drive as the media source and a netbook running OrangeCD as a remote control for the 9150.
I do not think this is going to be possible. You can get OrangeCD to recognize the internal drive on the netgear as a shared drive and the files on it as part of your library.
But when you ask OrangeCD to play a song or album on the netgear, it is going to want to send it out to the sound card on your netbook.
What you are wanting to do (I think) is use the netgear as the sound card also, and probably send out a digital signal from the netgear into your audio system's DAC.
I am not sure that this is possible. Of course, I have not used OrangeCD, so I could be completely wrong.
I use a product somewhat similar to yours - a networked media tank (NMT) with an internal hard drive and a co-axial S/PDIF output to an external DAC.
While I can get Foobar or JRiver to recognize the internal drive of the NMT and the songs in it, I cannot tell Foobar to play the song so that the song is played back through the NMT's digital output.
My solution is to install Music Player Daemon (MPD) on the NMT, and remote control it using a client called Minion on my laptop. See the thread on
nice and cheap 24/96 transport.
It might be possible to install MPD on the netgear also, I suspect it runs some tweaked variant of linux.
