Hey, thanks for those links. I had been either "rolling my own" FLACs or buying them off HDTracks. I was not aware of those other places.

Regarding the Sun HW. When I have had to cold boot, which is rare, it sounds like a freight train for about 1 minute before the fans slow down. Other than that, it is remarkably quiet (almost noiseless), plus it sits inside a cabinet and it is kept cool enough that the fans don't kick in. I still would not recommend it as a media server. My other media server (a Dell running Linux) is inside an insulated wall in my home theater and that one is dead quiet.