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One of the reasons I like the central is that it's 100 percent uptime with no fan noise. If I had to keep yet another server PC turned on to accompany it, that would be irritating.

You'd run the republisher on the Central. (Probably. I can't remember how much control a random daemon would have over whether the player software spins the disk down.) It's just that solving the problem at the server end rather than the client end has more applicability to other situations.

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I suppose there's nothing to stop such a republisher from running on the client PC alongside iTunes.

Except that the client PC is already running a DAAP server if it's running Itunes. Depending on exactly how it works, it might not be possible to have two DAAP servers on the same IP address.

Peter