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Playing music over the home network sounds great to tech-savvy folks, but mainstream consumers aren't buying it just yet.

With tens of millions of consumers storing music on their hard drives, and many millions more using wireless home networks, it makes sense that many of these consumers will look to free that music by streaming it around the home, right? Yamaha, Cisco and Sonos sure think so. But as the big names in both home networks and home stereos have converged on the space, the early returns on their investments haven’t proved as explosive as [...]