Digital audio receivers are a great new piece of kit for any audiophile, music lover or technology addict. Who wants to sit at a computer just to listen to music? A digital audio receiver solves these problems by allowing the library of music you have collected to become available from your hi-fi stack.
The digital audio receiver does its magic by being connected to your home network. This software acts as a local server, letting the digital audio receiver have access to your digital music collection. When a track is selected, the server software loads the audio and then "streams" it to the digital audio receiver. Streaming is just a technical term for passing the data to the digital audio receiver fast enough to allowing the digital audio receiver to begin playing instantly, without running out of music.